OBJECTIVE: To determine patient knowledge about life‐sustaining treatments and
physician understanding of patient preferences for proxies and treatments after outpatient …

Objective.—To investigate the accessibility of patients' previously executed advance
directives during an acute hospitalization. Design.—Retrospective chart review. Setting.—A …

OBJECTIVE To determine health care preferences expressed by patients in advance
directives (ADs) and to identify characteristics of patients who completed them. PATIENTS …

During the last decade, states have enacted three different kinds of documents to deal with
health care of incompetent patients. The legislation's main impetus and central focus have …

The number of elderly persons is expected to increase to 55 million by 2020, with the
minority population increasing to 12.9 million, yet fewer than 30% of Americans have …

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 The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 mandates that hospitals reimbursed
by Medicare and Medicaid inform each patient about the patient's right to a natural death …

Because advance directives are not yet the norm, end-of-life decisions for patients without
medical decision-making capacity are made regularly within discussions between the …

Background: Advance directives are an important but underutilized resource. Reasons for
this underutilization need to be determined. Objective: We investigated factors associated …

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" …