Voorbeelden van advance directive

• The advance directive then is inadequate to the decision at hand.

• The point of designating a proxy in an advance directive is to identify the person you want to make your decisions.

• These considerations also help explain why the advance directive in scenario 3 counts as sufficient evidence of the man's wishes.

• In scenario 3 there is a written advance directive, but two important elements of the paradigm are missing.

• These considerations support the view that an advance directive is not the same thing as informed consent.

• Responses included relief when they were honored, anger when they were not, and in some situations, gratitude when an advance directive was not honored.

• Specific issues included lack of understanding of the meaning of treatments, anger, and the family requesting interventions contradicted by the patient's advance directive.

• Note that "advance care planning" goes beyond advance directive determination.