GeriPal

JANUARY 16, 2025

So it defines unrepresented as someone who lacks decisional capacity to provide informed consent to a particular medical treatment. But they also did not do the DPOA for healthcare form. So there’s no healthcare surrogate. So we’re not making this decision just as a healthcare institution.

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Healthcare proxy Social worker Ventilator Geriatrics 267

GeriPal

MARCH 20, 2025

Should these patients qualify for medical aid in dying medications? Hope is a palliative care doc and hospice medical director at Evergreen Health up near Seattle, Washington. Who do you give informed consent to? It’s a, it’s a, it’s a past self directing healthcare for a future self.

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Feeding Article Palliative care Palliate 213

Pallimed

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

By 2007, the Washington State Agency Medical Directors Group (AMDG), which included several eventual PROP members (23), published an “Interagency Guideline on Opioid Dosing for Chronic Non-Cancer Pain (26) that introduced the concept of hard dosing thresholds for opioid analgesics, which was later incorporated into the 2016 Guideline (2, 3).

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