DESPITE widespread acknowledgment of the need for individuals to draft living wills,
durable powers of attorney, or other advance directives, few Americans have done so. To …

To determine whether limits to life-sustaining care are becoming more common, we
attempted to quantify the incidence of recommendations to withhold or withdraw life support …

OBJECTIVES. How do health care professionals assess the care of hospital patients near
the end of life? Are physicians and nurses aware of and in agreement with national …

Excerpt In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court affirmed a Missouri ruling that
sharply limited family decisions about life-sustaining treatment for incompetent patients. The …

" The updated Third Edition of Geriatrics and the Law by the leading scholar in law and old
age belongs on the desk of every hospital and long-term care administrator, Director of …

THE RECENT CASE OF Terri Schiavo has reignited a public dispute about certain aspects
of the care of patients who are severely cognitively impaired, including those in a persistent …

Objectives To find out whether and how the teaching of medical ethics can influence
attitudes on accepting treatment refusals. Setting and design Anonymous questionnaires …

The case of Nancy Cruzan has been described, discussed, and analyzed in the medical
literature, 1-12 most recently in this issue of theArchivesby Fairman. 13 We concur with …

ABSTRACT" The advance directive is a document that enables a competent individual to
specify the form of health care he would like to have, in the event that he is unable to make …

Two of the patient's rights in a Uniform Act for the Terminally Ill should he a) the right to be
treated if there is reasonable doubt of the patient's wishes until it becomes clear that the …