A Patient Is No Longer Able to Make Competent Decisions

question 13

Multiple Choice

A patient is no longer able to make competent decisions. The daughter of the patient talked with the physician about treatment options and chose a treatment based on what the patient had verbalized to the daughter while she was still competent. This type of surrogate decision making is:

• A) substituted judgment.
• B) pure autonomy standard.
• C) best interest standard.
• D) traditional standard.
• E) None of these is correct.

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