title: Caring for incompetent patients and their surrogates.
authors.affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kennedy-Schwarz
mesh_terms: D016223:Advance Directives; D000368:Aged; D003657:Decision Making; D004993:Ethics, Nursing; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016743:Mental Competency; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D011379:Prognosis; D019727:Proxy; D014481:United States