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  • Title: Foregoing life-sustaining treatment for adult, developmentally disabled, public wards: a proposed statute.
    Author: McKnight DK, Bellis M.
    Journal: Am J Law Med; 1992; 18(3):203-32. PubMed ID: 1283812.
    Abstract:
    This Article proposes a procedure for making decisions to forego life-sustaining treatment for adult, developmentally disabled, public wards who are not competent to make health care decisions. Few commentators or cases address the special considerations involved in making life-sustaining treatment decisions for this patient population. The proposal attempts to fill this gap with a patient-centered process that allows decisionmakers, without prior judicial approval, to forego life-sustaining treatment for adult, developmentally disabled, public wards who have been reliably diagnosed with specific medical conditions.
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