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2017 Arkansas Code
Title 20 - Public Health and Welfare
Subtitle 2 - Health and Safety
Chapter 6 - General Provisions
Subchapter 3 - Arkansas Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment Act
§ 20-6-307. Relationship with advance directives
Universal Citation: AR Code § 20-6-307 (2017)
- (a)
- (1) A physician order for life-sustaining treatment form is not intended to replace an advance directive.
- (2) In executing a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form, a patient, the legal representative of the patient when applicable, and the physician shall make a good-faith effort to locate and incorporate treatment preferences documented in a previously executed advance directive, when appropriate and desired by the patient.
- (b) In the event of a conflict with a physician order for life-sustaining treatment form and an advance directive, either:
- (1) The document executed most recently by the patient shall take precedence regarding the medical decision or treatment preference at issue; or
- (2) If both the advance directive and the physician order for life-sustaining treatment form were executed by the legal representative of the patient, the advance directive shall take precedence regarding the medical decision or treatment preference at issue.
- (c) This section does not prohibit or require the execution, revocation, or modification of an advance directive.
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