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 …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the attitudes toward, the experience with and the knowledge of
advance directives of family physicians in Ontario. DESIGN: Cross-sectional survey …

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 are documents that guide end of life decisions. Although advance
directives are a fairly recent phenomenon in health care, they are grounded in both legal …

Advance directive legislation has been in place throughout much of the United States for
nearly 3 decades. The right to give an informed consent to or refusal of medical treatment …

The concept of advance directives, although sound in theory, appears to be failing to meet
the needs of many patients. Advance directives have been endorsed by both the healthcare …

Advance directives are beginning to take their place in the array of skilled interventions that
medicine can bring to patients. The debate is now rarely about whether or not they should …

Advance directives have emerged in medicine as an important method by which patients
can express future treatment wishes. The major reasons medical professionals have been …

Objectives In France, the law has introduced the possibility to write advance directives since
2005. In this paper, we will present the results of a study designed for checking how much …

A review of medical charts of all deaths for one year at a general acute care hospital reveals
that 135/602 (22%) charts indicate that the patient had an advance directive. In 68/135 …