Background: Although advance medical directives, such as living wills and durable powers
of attorney for health care, are by themselves imperfect instruments for expressing patients' …

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 …

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES PROVIDE A LEGAL MEANS FOR PATIENTS to state treatment
preferences in advance, should they later become unable to participate in decisions about …

Although many hospitals have launched patient education programs regarding advance
directives, the number of patients choosing to issue these documents remains low. What …

OBJECTIVES: This study examined the views and experiences of 20 physicians and 20
nurses at a major Canadian teaching hospital regarding the use of advance directives in …

Background: Despite the potential benefits of advance directives, few patients complete
them. This study examined whether barriers to advance decision making can be overcome …

Background: The attitudes of hospitalized patients and their attending physicians about
advance directives have not been well studied. We compared these attitudes and explored …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether the lack of effect of advance directives (ADs) on decision‐
making in SUPPORT might arise, in part, from the content of the actual documents. DESIGN …

Advance directives provide means for competent individuals to influence treatment
decisions in the event of serious illness and subsequent loss of competence, the" living will" …

The patient records of 160 older adults who died in a community hospital were reviewed to
determine the use of advance directives and evaluate their effect on the care decisions …