OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to identify and compare the attitudes of patients and
health care professionals towards advance directives. Advance directives promote …

Purpose: To explore hospitalized patients' attitudes toward advance directives, their reasons
for completing or not completing advance directive forms, and demographic differences …

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 …

OBJECTIVE: To examine the knowledge of, previous experience with, attitudes toward and
perceived barriers to completing advance directives among outpatients at two general …

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

Abstract The Patient Self-Determination Act was implemented in December 1991. Before
and after its implementation, we used a structured interview of 302 randomly selected …

Purpose: To review physician's attitudes as well as the variables that may impact on
physicians' attitude toward advance directives (ADs). Method: Literature review of 17 …

Results. Of the respondents who had not previously discussed their wishes with their
physician, 68% wanted the physician to initiate the discussion. Only 11% did not want their …

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" …