Decision-making Surrogates

"Decision-Making Surrogate" is a legally recognized individual designated to make healthcare decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decision-making capacity, distinguishing it from other forms of medical authorization by its reliance on substituted judgment or best interest standards in the absence of advance directives.

219

Publications

13.8K

Citations

646

Authors

326

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

Variants

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Parents

Hospice Law

Publications

219

Deciding for others: the ethics of surrogate decision making

Choice Reviews Online · 1990 · 1.1K citations

Health Professions, Geriatric Medicine, Health Law +17

A Randomized Trial of a Family-Support Intervention in Intensive Care Units

Douglas B. White, Derek C. Angus, Anne‐Marie Shields et al. · New England Journal of Medicine · 2018 · 502 citations · Full text

Medicine, Critical Care Nursing, Clinical Decision Support +15

Advance Directives as Acts of Communication

Peter H. Ditto, Joseph H. Danks, William D. Smucker et al. · Archives of Internal Medicine · 2001 · 411 citations

Nursing, Instruction, End-of-life Care +11

Projection in surrogate decisions about life-sustaining medical treatments.

Angela Fagerlin, Peter H. Ditto, Joseph H. Danks et al. · Health Psychology · 2001 · 273 citations

Health Professions, Health Policy, Medical Ethics +13

Surviving Surrogate Decision-Making: What Helps and Hampers the Experience of Making Medical Decisions for Others

Elizabeth K. Vig, Helene Starks, Janelle S. Taylor et al. · Journal of General Internal Medicine · 2007 · 233 citations

Public Health, Behavioral Sciences, Public Health Ethics +14

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Authors

646

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Douglas B. White
University of Pittsburgh, United States
24 publications · 2.8K citations
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Alexia M. Torke
Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis, United States
16 publications · 1K citations
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Robert M. Arnold
University of Pittsburgh, United States
12 publications · 1.3K citations
12
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DW
David Wendler
National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, United States
8 publications · 377 citations
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G. Caleb Alexander
Johns Hopkins University, United States
7 publications · 353 citations
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Institutions

326

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Critical Care Medicine
13 publications · 1.2K citations
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PubMed
Repository · 11 publications · 282 citations
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
10 publications · 757 citations
10
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The Journal of Clinical Ethics
JCE · 9 publications · 393 citations
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Archives of Internal Medicine
9 publications · 1.2K citations
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