Background Established legal mandates and high expectations for psychiatric advance
directives are not matched by empirical evidence documenting their actual implementation …

Objective The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance
directives in mental health care. Methods Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to …

Abstract Psychiatric Advance Directives (PADs) are documents that allow users with severe
and chronic mental illnesses to notify their treatment preferences for future crisis relapses …

BACKGROUND: Where advance directives in mental health have been introduced concern
has been expressed about their content including inappropriate treatment choices …

Background Psychiatric advance directives, a tool to document preferences for care in
advance of decisional incapacity, have been shown to benefit persons with mental illness in …

Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are written documents or oral statements that allow
adults with decisionmaking capacity to declare their treatment preferences and/or to …

Background: Advance directives enable patients to ensure that treatment decisions will be
based on their autonomous will, even if they are incompetent at the time at which the …

The aim of this study was to measure expert consensus on the implementation of Psychiatric
Advance Directives (PADs) within the Veterans Health Administration. We conducted a two …

This article reviews the literature on advance statements, including current mental health law
and guidance in England and Wales, ethical and practical advantages, disadvantages and …

Despite advocacy and demand for psychiatric advance directives (PADs), uptake and
implementation in clinical practice is low. We examine why PAD implementation has been …