§ 3101.3. Definitions
Oklahoma Statutes AnnotatedTitle 63. Public Health and Safety
63 Okl.St.Ann. § 3101.3
§ 3101.3. Definitions
As used in the Oklahoma Advance Directive Act:
4. “End-stage condition” means a condition caused by injury, disease, or illness, which results in severe and permanent deterioration indicated by incompetency and complete physical dependency for which, to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, treatment of the irreversible condition would be medically ineffective;
6. “Health care proxy” is an individual eighteen (18) years old or older appointed by the declarant as attorney-in-fact to make health care decisions including, but not limited to, the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment if a qualified patient, in the opinion of the attending physician and another physician, is persistently unconscious, incompetent, or otherwise mentally or physically incapable of communication;
10. “Qualified patient” means a patient eighteen (18) years of age or older who has executed an advance directive and who has been determined to be incapable of making an informed decision regarding health care, including the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment, by the attending physician and another physician who have examined the patient;
Credits
Laws 1992, c. 114, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1992; Laws 2006, c. 171, § 5, emerg. eff. May 17, 2006.
63 Okl. St. Ann. § 3101.3, OK ST T. 63 § 3101.3
Current with emergency effective legislation through Chapter 90 of the Second Regular Session of the 59th Legislature (2024). Some sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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