advance decision

The conference resolved that an advance decision would be interfering in South Africa's internal affairs.

He walked back to his desk, tossed the Advance Decisions to one side and smoked in silent contemplation.

This introduces advanced decisions to refuse treatment.

Advance decisions have been allowed in Britain since the passing of the Mental Capacity Act 2005.

"You'll lose most of your advanced decision aids as well as some resolution on your targeting packages, but that's about it.

Additionally, a person can also state in their advance decision what life-sustaining treatment they do wish for, although doctors do not ultimately have to respect that request.

It also campaigns for new legislation to permit assisted dying within strict safeguards, and promotes the concept and use of advance decisions in England and Wales.

In 1984, he left academia and joined Bell Labs, where he served as a team member of AT&T's Advanced Decision Support Systems venture.

The orders - which record an advance decision that a patient's life should not be saved if their heart stops - are routinely being applied without the knowledge of the patient or their relatives.

"We don't currently envision this as a product for the mass market," said Aristides C. Fronistas, president of A.T.&T.'s Advanced Decision Support Systems division.

Alongside its campaigning work, Dignity in Dying, through its partner charity Compassion in Dying, is also an information source on end-of-life issues and a provider of advance decisions.

Perry Mason read a copy of the Advance Decisions of the Supreme Court for ten minutes then softly tiptoed to the door which led to the outer office, opened it and looked out.

The primary benefit of second-generation advance directives is that the appointed representative can make real-time decisions in actual circumstances, as opposed to advance decisions framed in hypothetical situations, as recorded in a living will.

The use of Advanced Decisions can help significantly but they also believe that if a right to an Assisted Death is available then the very knowledge of this fact can alleviate many of the worries an individual might have.

In order to make their advance wishes clear, people can use a living will, which can include general statements about wishes, which are not legally binding, and specific refusals of treatment called 'advanced decisions' or 'advanced directives'.

In a similar way, action entries can simply represent whether an action is to be performed (check the actions to perform), or in more advanced decision tables, the sequencing of actions to perform (number the actions to perform).

They would generally attempt to empower terminally ill people (and their families and friends) so that they can obtain a better experience as their end-of-life approaches, including access to information on current rights and such devices as Advance Decisions.

The specially trained prehospital care doctors are able to supplement the skills of paramedics and other ambulance staff (for example with advanced decision making, administration of strong painkilling drugs, prehospital anaesthesia and certain surgical procedures normally carried out in hospital).

Requesting a Legal Decision or Opinion: By statute, accountable officers and heads of agencies and agency components are entitled to an advance decision of the Comptroller General concerning the obligation, expenditure, and accounting of appropriated funds.

In May 1985, he became the first nonmanagement team member of AT&T's Advanced Decision Support Systems venture, where he served as the interface to Karmarkar and as the lead developer of the first release of the linear programming software.

In parallel with the taught part of the programme, students carry out research; research projects span LSCITS topics, including socio-technical systems, high-performance computing, cloud computing, systems and software engineering, safety critical systems, interactive and accessible systems, and advanced decision making.

An advance health care directive, also known as living will, personal directive, advance directive, or advance decision, is a set of written instructions that a person gives that specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity.