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• Toward a Pure Best Interests Model of Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Psychiatric Patients 

  McCubbin, Michael; Weisstub, David N. (1998)
• Decision-Making for Mentally Incompetent People: The Empty Formula of Best Interests? 

  Donnelly, Mary (2001)

  This paper considers the way in which the best interests test has been used in making health care decisions for mentally incompetent individuals in the Irish and English Courts where this is the test of choice. It looks ...
• Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Patients: An Ethical and Empirical Analysis 

  Emanuel, Ezekiel J.; Emanuel, Linda L. (1992-04-15)

  Conclusions: The recent trend has been to rely on proxy decision making for incompetent patients. Support for proxy decision making has failed to acknowledge the growing body of ethical and empirical research suggesting that ...