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Patient Self-Determination Act

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Hierarchy:	Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ∟ Health Care Economics and Organizations ∟ Social Control, Formal ∟ Legislation ∟ Legislation, Hospital ∟ Patient Self-Determination Act Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ∟ Social Sciences ∟ Sociology ∟ Social Control, Formal ∟ Legislation ∟ Legislation, Hospital ∟ Patient Self-Determination Act X
Broader terms:	Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ∟ Health Care Economics and Organizations ∟ Social Control, Formal ∟ Legislation ∟ Legislation, Hospital ∟ Patient Self-Determination Act Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) ∟ Social Sciences ∟ Sociology ∟ Social Control, Formal ∟ Legislation ∟ Legislation, Hospital ∟ Patient Self-Determination Act Legislation, Hospital > Legislation > Social Control, Formal > Health Care Economics and Organizations > Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) Legislation, Hospital > Legislation > Social Control, Formal > Sociology > Social Sciences > Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) X
Annotation:	add UNITED STATES (NIM) CATALOG: use NAF entry X
historyNote*:	99 X
publicMeSHNote*:	99 X
Scope note:	The purpose of this 1990 federal act is to assure that individuals receiving health care services will be given an opportunity to participate in and direct health care decisions affecting themselves. Under this act, hospitals, health care agencies, and health maintenance organizations are responsible for developing patient information for distribution. The information must include patients' rights, advance directives, living wills, ethics committees' consultation and education functions, limited medical treatment (support/comfort care only), mental health treatment, resuscitation, restraints, surrogate decision making and transfer of care. (from JCAHO, Lexicon, 1994) X
activeMeSHYear*:	2002 \| 2003 \| 2004 \| 2005 \| 2006 \| 2007X
dateCreated*:	1998-06-10X
dateEstablished*:	1999-01-01X
dateRevised*:	2001-07-25X
recordAuthorizer*:	sjnX
recordMaintainer*:	jlsX
recordOriginator*:	JLSX
Related term:	Advance Directives X
Type:	Concept X
URI:	X
Labels and equivalent concepts:	Patient Self-Determination Act (US) (fi) PSDA (fi, replaced) United States Patient Self-Determination Act (en, replaced) Public Law 101-508 (en, replaced) PSDA (en, replaced) PL101-508 (en, replaced) PL 101-508 (en, replaced) Patient Self-Determination Act (US) (en-FI) X
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