Patient safety: honoring advanced directives.

Martha A. Tice

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Patient safety: honoring advanced directives.

January 18, 2011

Tice MA. Home Healthc Nurse. 2007;25(2):79-81.

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The author discusses why failure to follow an advance directive should be considered a reportable medical error.

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