advance directive

English

Noun

advance directive (plural advance directives)

  1. a set of instructions for making decisions regarding one’s medical care designed to be used by a surrogate decision-maker to guide choice on the patient’s behalf in the event of incapacity; it may simply designate who the surrogate decision-maker is to be, or may constitute a full living will which sets forth the substantive principles by which the surrogate decision-maker is to be guided.
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