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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)

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Patient Self-Determination Act".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is related to "Patient Self-Determination Act".

Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Patient Self-Determination Act".