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2016 Iowa Code
Title IV - PUBLIC HEALTH
Chapter 144A - LIFE-SUSTAINING PROCEDURES
Section 144A.5 - Determination of terminal condition.
IA Code § 144A.5 (2016) What's This?
144A.5
Determination of terminal condition.
When an attending physician who has been provided with a declaration determines that the declarant is in a terminal condition, this decision must be confirmed by another physician. The attending physician must record that determination in the declarant’s medical record.
85 Acts, ch 3, §6
Referred to in §144A.8
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