… of life between patients with no advance directive/medical order and those with an advance
… with no advance directive/medical order and those with an advance directive/medical order. …

… Advance directives (ADs) might be useful in achieving … Our aims were to better characterise
patients with advanced … Effects of offering advance directives on medical treatments …

… role of ADs in decision making. In each case, the patient had a period of diminished capacity
in which ADs should have been invoked. Advance directives played an important role … role. …

… during the process of advance directives. The other three presented the … advance directives
and expanded to diverse sites. Advanced practice nurses’role in the advance directive …

necessary decisions for them, includ-ing trusting family to handle such tasks." Six different
intervention strat-egies were employed to increase use of advance directives. Four months …

… advance directives to be helpful tools and if they recommend creating an advance directive
to their patients. We also asked, if physicians had laid down directives for themselves. …

… in seriously ill adults found a limited role of written ADs in medical … The present study
examined the role of written ADs and … a number of concerns regarding the role of living wills. One …

… , and criticisms in using advance directives in the context of a … foreseeable; the goal of
advance directives for dementia is to … identifies and recommends advance directives as tools to …

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 multicultural …

… were likely or very likely to honor the advance directive in Scenario 1. Of these, … advance
directive in Scenario 2, and only 108 were also likely/very likely to honor the advance directive …