Deciding on behalf of others: a population survey on procedural preferences for surrogate decision-making.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess people's procedural preferences for making medical surrogate decisions, from the perspectives of both a potential surrogate and an incapacitated patient.

Design

Computer-assisted telephone interviews. Respondents were randomly assigned either the role of an incapacitated patient or that of a potential surrogate for an incapacitated family member. They were asked to rate six approaches to making a surrogate decision: patient-designated surrogate, discussion among family members, majority vote of family members' individual judgements, legally assigned surrogate, population-based treatment indicator and delegating the decision to a physician.

Setting

Germany and German-speaking and French-speaking parts of Switzerland.

Participants

2010 respon

SUBMITTER: Frey R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6067368 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature