Advance directives are legal documents outlining a patient's preferences for treatment at the
end of life. The intent is that the documents will be used if the patient later cannot …

BACKGROUND: Advance directives are a means of promoting patient autonomy in end-of-
life decisions but are used infrequently. A recent federal law requires healthcare …

Despite the 1991 Patient Self-Determination Act to legally implement Advance Directives
(AD), the completion rates are low. Multiple studies show the rate varies from 0% to 26% in …

As medical technology progresses, the ability to sustain life artificially increases, though
sometimes with a concomitant decrease in the quality of the patient's life. Catastrophic and …

Background The use of advance directives is recommended so that people can determine
the medical care they will receive when they are no longer competent, but the effectiveness …

Survey of Critical Care Nurses' Knowledge, Attitude, and Experience provider does, are in
the best position to educate competent patients about advance directives and facilitate the …

Objective: To discuss the relative merits and limitations of living wills and the durable power
of attorney for health care. Data Sources: Computerized search of MEDLINE. Study …

Advance care planning is the process by which persons can designate, in an advance
directive, how intensive they would like their care to be if they become incapacitated and …

BACKGROUND: With the passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act in 1990, new
procedures and documents became available for planning end-of-life care. These new …

Clarifying advance directives Clarifying advance directives Abstract In the end, a patient who
had not prepared an advance directive may not have died as he or she would have wished …