Advance directives: patient autonomy and professional safety

Autor: Jussara Silva Lima, João Gabriel Silva Resende Lima, Sarah Inessa Silva Resende Lima, Hellen Kassia de Lima Alves, Wellington Francisco Rodrigues
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Revista Bioética. 30:769-779
ISSN: 1983-8034
1983-8042
DOI: 10.1590/1983-80422022304568en
Popis: This theoretical study discusses bioethics in the sense of safely promoting and ensuring the patients’ dignity, respectful of their decision making, following regulations and protocols that help fulfill this will and bring safety to the care team. The lack of clear and consensual legal regulations on how to elaborate an advance directive generates uncertainty among healthcare providers, patients and their families. Beyond legal standardization, professionals must also have full knowledge on the topic to correctly guide and inform their patients, thus guaranteeing this right. But ensuring the right to express one’s will is not enough—one must be assured that such whishes will be fulfilled. Further and broader discussions on this topic anchored on the Brazilian reality are needed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE