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Title XII PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE

Chapter 190

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  190.603.  Outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order may be executed, when — maintained in medical records — transfers with patient. — 1.  A patient or patient's representative and the patient's attending physician may execute an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order.  An outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order shall not be effective unless it is executed by the patient or patient's representative and the patient's attending physician, and it is in the form promulgated by rule of the department.

  2.  A patient under eighteen years of age is not authorized to execute an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order for himself or herself but may have a do-not-resuscitate order issued on his or her behalf by one parent or legal guardian or by a juvenile or family court under the provisions of section 191.250.  Such do-not-resuscitate order shall also function as an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order for the purposes of sections 190.600 to 190.621 unless such do-not-resuscitate order authorized under the provisions of section 191.250 states otherwise.

  3.  If an outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order has been executed, it shall be maintained as the first page of a patient's medical record in a health care facility unless otherwise specified in the health care facility's policies and procedures.

  4.  An outside the hospital do-not-resuscitate order shall be transferred with the patient when the patient is transferred from one health care facility to another health care facility.  If the patient is transferred outside of a hospital, the outside the hospital DNR form shall be provided to any other facility, person, or agency responsible for the medical care of the patient or to the patient or patient's representative.

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(L. 2007 H.B. 182, A.L. 2023 H.B. 402 merged with S.B. 45 & 90 merged with S.B. 106)


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