Advance Directives

**Definition:** Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

**Tree numbers:** - I01.880.604.583.020 - N03.706.535.020 - N04.590.233.624.124.050