Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion
rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people's preferences in …

Context: The legal tools of health care advance planning have substantially changed since
their emergence in the mid‐1970s. Thirty years of policy development, primarily at the state …

The traditional objective of advance care planning has been to have patients make
treatment decisions in advance so that clinicians can attempt to provide care consistent with …

Clinical practice guidelines for communicating prognosis and end-of-life issues with adults
in the advanced stages of a life-limiting illness, and their caregivers | The Medical Journal of …

Patients and their families struggle with myriad choices concerning medical treatments that
frequently precede death. Advance directives have been proposed as a tool to facilitate end …

Advance directives promise patients a say in their future care but actually have had little
effect. Many experts blame problems with completion and implementation, but the advance …

Context Advance care planning (ACP) has focused on documenting life-sustaining treatment
preferences in advance directives (ADs). The ADs alone may be insufficient to prepare …

OBJECTIVES: To develop stages‐of‐change measures for advance care planning (ACP),
conceptualized as a group of interrelated but separate behaviors, and to use these …

Efforts to improve end‐of‐life decision‐making quality have emphasized the principle of
individual autonomy to better ensure that patients receive care consistent with their …

Patients facing medical decisions that will impact quality of life make assumptions about how
they will adjust emotionally to living with health declines and disability. Despite abundant …