This review provides an ethical analysis of disorders of consciousness (DoC) along the care
continuum, from preinjury to injury, acute care to subacute care and early rehabilitation, and …

Patients with disorders of consciousness (DoC) who survive to discharge following severe
brain injury can face profoundly complex medical, ethical, and psychosocial challenges …

Due to COVID-19's strain on health systems across the globe, triage protocols determine
how to allocate scarce medical resources with the worthy goal of maximising the number of …

When a patient lacks decision‐making capacity, then according to standard clinical ethics
practice in the United States, the health care team should seek guidance from a surrogate …

Unrepresented patients lack the capacity to make medical decisions for themselves, have no
clear documentation of preferences for medical treatment, and have no surrogate decision …

According to a standard account of patient decision-making capacity (DMC), patients can
provide ethically valid consent or refusal only if they are able to understand and appreciate …

Historically, advanced age alone was a contraindication to operative intervention. 1 Today,
however, medical advances in technique and technology allow both cardiac and noncardiac …

In the past thirty to forty years, clinicians and bioethicists have expanded the scope for
children's participation in decision‐making about their medical care, often under the banner …

The cognitive and behavioral changes that can be observed in the neurodegenerative
terminal disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), once characterized as purely a motor …

Who Makes Decisions for Incapacitated Patients Who Have No Surrogate or Advance
Directive? | Journal of Ethics | American Medical Association Skip to main content AMA Journal …