Background An advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates
a person's health care preference while they are competent to make decisions for …

Abstract Background Signing advance directives (ADs) ensures that terminally ill patients
receive end-of-life care, according to their wishes, thereby promoting human dignity and …

Aim: A cross-sectional, descriptive study to describe characteristics and other factors that
influenced the decision by hospitalized patients in the East Texas area to formulate an …

(1) Background: Advance directives are an expression of a person's autonomy regarding
end-of-life care. Several studies have shown that the level of completion in countries where …

An advanced directive is a legal document based on the principle of autonomy that
expresses the desire of the patient in relation to different medical treatments when the …

Abstract Background: Although advance directives (ADs) are already exercised in many
Western countries, cultural differences surrounding death and dying may potentially pose …

Abstract Background Advance directives (ADs) are assumed to reflect the patients'
preferences, even if these are not clearly expressed. Research into whether this assumption …

Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals
when applying advance directives to manage the decision-making process at the end of life …

Advance directives (ADs) might be useful in achieving improved communication and
satisfaction with decision making at the end-of-life. Our aims were to better characterise …

The key hypothesis behind advance directives (ADs) proposes that, if an intervention
enhances a person's right to choose, a dying person will not opt for expensive, life …