[Implementation of a procedure for nominating a health care surrogate]. / Mise en oeuvre d'une procédure de désignation d'une personne de confiance.

A procedure for the systematic nomination of a health care surrogate was put in place following a multi-disciplinary approach within an acute care geriatric unit at Ambroise-Paré hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt. Its originality lies in the way the whole team, on the initiative of a doctor, prepared the procedure, implemented it and assessed it. A review.