Background Little is known in Europe about end-of-life (EOL) decisions and advance
directives (AD), particularly in patients with severe advanced disease. Switzerland is a …

In the USA, the use of advance directives (ADs) has been studied extensively, in order to
identify opportunities to increase their use. We investigated the prevalence of ADs and the …

BACKGROUND Advance directives enable people to describe their preferences for medical
treatment (living will) and/or to appoint a healthcare proxy who may decide on their behalf …

Background ADs are documents in which one can state one's preferences concerning end-
of-life care, aimed at making someone's wishes known in situations where he/she is not able …

Advance directives (ADs) might be useful in achieving improved communication and
satisfaction with decision making at the end-of-life. Our aims were to better characterise …

In order to explore possible differences in the scope of end-of-life decisions and attitudes
toward advance directives (AD) in palliative care, we conducted a survey of 159 patients in …

Background To determine the extent to which members of the general population have
talked to their physician about their wishes regarding medical treatment at the end of life, to …

An advanced directive is a legal document based on the principle of autonomy that
expresses the desire of the patient in relation to different medical treatments when the …

Abstract Background In Japan, discussion concerning advance directives (ADs) has been
on the rise during the past decade. ADs are one method proposed to facilitate the process of …

Background: The completion of an advanced directive is paired with a high degree of self-
responsibility of the signatory. It requires anticipation of probably complex medical …