Palliative Care
Comfort-focused care with formal advance care planning.
Advance directives
An advance directive captures the patient’s wishes after a capacity assessment: their proxy decision-makers, a values statement and quality-of-life priorities, and explicit choices on CPR, intubation, ICU admission, artificial nutrition and hydration, antibiotics and blood transfusion, plus organ-donation wishes, preferred place of death and required religious rituals. It is tracked as Draft → Active once signed and witnessed, with review dates, and can be superseded or revoked by the patient.
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