The intensive care unit (ICU) represents a hospital setting in which death and discussion
about end-of-life care are common, yet these conversations are often difficult. Such …

Objective: to elaborate the conceptual theoretical-legal provisions and scientific
recommendations for the substantiating the inefficiency of mandated disclosure. Methods …

Sharon Kaufman, PhD, Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Institute for Health & Aging
at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted two years of on-site research …

Ever since the 1960s, when medical science became capable of prolonging the dying
process beyond bounds that many patients would find acceptable, people have sought …

For editorial comment see page 589 evolved from an ideal of the beneficent physician,
practicingwith little guidancefrom the patient, toward the acceptance ofa nearlyabsolute …

The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Paradigm is designed to
improve end-of-life care by converting patients' treatment preferences into medical orders …

There are many articles written about end-of-life decisionmaking for elderly adults with
dementia, but few about their sexual relationships. At first blush, this disparity seems logical …

A legal and moral analysis of medical decision making on behalf of those with such severe
cognitive impairments that they cannot exercise self-determination. In this book, Norman …

OBJECTIVES: This study was designed to identify and compare the attitudes of patients and
health care professionals towards advance directives. Advance directives promote …

WHEN A PATIENT IS ADMITTED into a federally funded hospital, even for the simplest of
procedures,'she must be given a copy of the hospital's policy and a statement of the relevant …