Treatment Decisions for a Future Self —Ethical Obligations to Guide Truly Informed Choices

This Viewpoint discusses the reality that most decisions about treatment for incapacitated patients involve surrogate assessments of patients ’ past values at their baseline health, and it proposes that more ethical and informed decision-making would help surrogates consider the degree to which their loved one might be able to adapt to and value a future health state at what is a higher level of disability.
Source: JAMA - Category: General Medicine Source Type: research