A Patient Is No Longer Able to Make Competent Decisions

A patient is no longer able to make competent decisions. The daughter of the patient talked with the physician about treatment options and chose a treatment based on what the patient had verbalized to the daughter while she was still competent. This type of surrogate decision making is:

A) substituted judgment.
B) pure autonomy standard.
C) best interest standard.
D) traditional standard.
E) None of these is correct.