Advance Directive

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
AD
Pronunciation
/ədˈvæns dɪˈrɛktɪv/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. If you have not completed an advance directive and become incapacitated, your doctor and family would have to agree on decisions about life-sustaining treatment.
  2. An advance directive is a legal document that states what type of treatment you want or don't want in case you become physically unable to communicate.
  3. Respect for patient's right of advance directive means respect for patient's rights of self determination and informed consent when a patient loses his / her competence.
  4. Non directive teaching is a new Chinese language teaching guiding principle, which Zheng Yi Nong and others advance according to the non directive teaching theory of American humanistic psychologist Rogers in their own teaching experiences.

Other meanings of AD