Advance directives: patient autonomy and professional safety
Abstract
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.Keywords:
Living wills. Advance directives. Right to die.
Published:
2023-01-03
How to Cite
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Lima JS, Resende Lima GS, Lima SISR, Alves HK de L, Rodrigues WF. Advance directives: patient autonomy and professional safety. Rev. bioét.(Impr.). [Internet]. 2023 Jan. 3 [cited 2024 May 17];30(4). Available from: https://revistabioetica.cfm.org.br/revista_bioetica/article/view/3220