Johansson Mats, Broström Linus
Department of Medical Ethics, Lund University, BMC I12, 221 84, Lund, Sweden,
Health Care Anal. 2014 Mar;22(1):73-81. doi: 10.1007/s10728-012-0205-4.
According to the Substituted Judgment Standard a surrogate decision maker ought to make the decision that the incompetent patient would have made, had he or she been competent. This standard has received a fair amount of criticism, but the objections raised are often wide of the mark. In this article we discuss three objections based on empirical research, and explain why these do not give us reason to abandon the Substituted Judgment Standard.
根据替代判断标准,替代决策者应该做出无行为能力患者如果有行为能力就会做出的决定。这一标准受到了不少批评,但所提出的反对意见往往不得要领。在本文中,我们讨论基于实证研究的三个反对意见,并解释为什么这些意见不能让我们有理由摒弃替代判断标准。