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What do community-dwelling people with dementia need? A survey of those who are known to care and welfare services.

[Circumcision for boys incapable of giving informed consent].

Parental proxy access via Web portals.

Parent-proxy ratings of pain before and after botulinum toxin type A treatment for children with spasticity and cerebral palsy.

Understanding advance decisions, mental capacity and proxy decision-making in medical treatment.

[Medical care proxy for an aging woman]

Illusion of control by proxy: placing one's fate in the hands of another.

Substitute consent for nursing home residents prescribed psychotropic medication.

Proxy assessment of health-related quality of life in african american and white respondents with prostate cancer: perspective matters.

[The physicians role in a quarreling family of a demented patriarch]

Surrogate consent for dementia research: A national survey of older Americans

Choosing for another: beyond autonomy and best interests.

Deferred proxy consent in emergency critical care research: ethically valid and practically feasible.

Medical futility: a paradigm as old as Hippocrates.

Quality of life by proxy: a risky business. Can one person truly assess another's quality of life?

The Mental Capacity Act--a balance between protection and liberty.

The size of the treatment effect: do patients and proxies agree?

Hope, truth, and preparing for death: perspectives of surrogate decision makers.

Validation of a parent-proxy, obesity-specific quality-of-life measure: sizing them up.

How do-not-resuscitate orders are utilized in cancer patients: timing relative to death and communication-training implications.