… about advance directives. We propose physician education regarding patient
preferences … and quality of discussions about advance directives.(Arch Intern Med. 1995;155:1025-1030) …

… advance directives will lead to less aggressive treatment even of patients who do not have
an advance directive… 18.1 A potential problem with advance directives is that patients could …

… role playing or standardized patients rather than actual patient–physician encounters or lacked
… attending physicians in outpatient practices discuss advance directives with their patients …

… We evaluated the impact of external factors and perceived patient preferences on physicians…
advance directives (ADs). In addition, physician views regarding legal risk, patients’ ability …

… occurs because patients are … physicians more than the patient's advance directives, or for
other reasons, is not well studied. Nonetheless, if a patient has a validated advance directive …

… Responses were compared in 37 physician-patient pairs for patients who had … advance
directives and in 31 physician-patient pairs for patients who had not executed advance directives…

… physician’s attitudes as well as the variables that may impact on physicians’ attitude toward
advance directives (… The aim of this study is to examine physicians’ attitudes toward patients …

… physician understanding of patient preferences for proxies and treatments after outpatient
discussions about advance directives. … We asked each physician to discuss “advance directives…

… patients to discuss advance directives with physicians and to complete them during an office
visit. Such patient-physician … between patients and physicians about advance directives and …

… of patients for whom advance directives are currently relevant, we attempted to enroll all
scheduled patients … physicians to initiate discussions about advance directives, especially with …