Talk:Texas Advance Directives Act

Discussion From Futile Care Law
Primarily I added the NPOV tag because of the lack of references -- in particular, the statement that someone was forced to die "against her wishes" could be construed as biased unless there is a reference to it (say, in a news article) and the reference is cited in this article. Not a bad article, in general, but it could use some expansion. -- MatthewDBA 17:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

After merging, I cleaned up the text to make it less biased and added "Cases" and "Criticism" so the controversy is easier to follow. Ksargent 21:10, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Merge with "Advance Directives Act"?
Seems to me that this article is about the same the the "Advance Directives Act" is about. At the very least I think there should be a link to that article for the words "The Futile Care Law" since that article actually explains what the law is. 192.52.57.33 16:51, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree. This fits well with the Advance Directives Act and so I merged it unchanged. Ksargent 19:50, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Andrea Clark Case
Has anyone here heard about the Andrea Clark case? There are a couple articles on it in the Houston Chronicle, here and here. More can be found with a quick google search.
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other advance directives law
Hi. The most prominent and I think initial law was passed in California. Should that be mentioned in here, along with other states? Don't think we need a different article for each state law, right? HG 15:49, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

broken link
Fixed broken link to bill text. First edit, so saying something in case I made a mistake. The Texas legislature page has apparently undergone a recent update, which included moving all the bill text pages. Randomundergrad

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Advance Directives Act → Texas Advance Directives Act – This page is a redir. from Texas Futile Care Law. This is a state-specific/Texas topic. --Relisted. Armbrust The Homunculus 07:58, 18 March 2014 (UTC) 24.0.133.234 (talk) 15:12, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

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Other Cases
The other cases section needs to be revised as the reference it links to no longer exists and may not be accurate. The current reference links to http://www.texaslawyer.com/id=1172829796788 which no longer exists. The section of the wikipedia article currently claims that across ~16 or so hospitals, there were 974 medical futility consultations with only 65 letters in agreement.

In the article "Fine RL, Mayo TW. Resolution of futility by due process: early experience with the Texas advance directives. Ann Intern Med 2003;138:743-6." Fine states that during a two year period in just the Baylor Healthcare System, there were 43 letters in agreement. It seems like an odd mismatch that out of the total 65 letters in agreement, 43 were in one hospital system.

Yoosc 14:07, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

An appropriate article "Fine RL. Point: The Texas Advance Directives Act Effectively and Ethically Resolves Disputes About Medical Futility. Chest 2009 136(4):963-7." discusses the previously mentioned statistics.

Yoosc 14:18, 8 September 2015 (UTC)