Texas hospitalsʼ experience with the Texas Advance Directives Act*

Abstract

A minority of THA hospitals have used their policies or procedures to review specific patient cases. Most cases were resolved before the end of the mandated 10-day waiting period because patients died, patients or representatives agreed to forgo the treatment in question, or patients were transferred. Discontinuation of life-sustaining treatment against patient or patient representative wishes occurred in only a small number of cases.