What if the patient has not completed an Advance Directive nor expressed his wishes for health care treatment?
If an incapacitated patient’s choices are unknown, the patient’s representative will make choices about treatment decisions based on what he believes the incapacitated person would choose. The decision-maker will decide based on what he knows about the patient’s values and preferences. This process is termed “substituted judgment”.
Related Questions
- What is the health care provider or institution objects to the Advance Directive or expressed wishes of the patient on ethical or moral grounds?
- What if the patient has not completed an Advance Directive nor expressed his wishes for health care treatment?
- What happens if the hospital the patient wishes to go to doesn’t offer the treatment they need?
