Background: Clinical practice relies on surrogates to make or help to make treatment
decisions for incapacitated adults; however, the effect of this practice on surrogates has not …

Prior research has shown that people mispredict their own behavior and preferences across
affective states. When people are in an affectively “cold” state, they fail to fully appreciate …

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 …

This line of reasoning—focusing on human capability—contrasts with the idea that health
care is special because of its impact on equality of opportunity. 6 It also differs from the …

Enough: The Failure of the Living Will - Fagerlin - 2004 - Hastings Center Report - Wiley Online
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Background: Many persons and their families are burdened by serious chronic illness in late
life. How to best support quality of life is an important consideration for care. Purpose: To …

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 …

Background Instructional advance directives are widely advocated as a means of preserving
patient self-determination at the end of life based on the assumption that they improve …

Advance care planning (ACP) is widely considered an essential step toward achieving end-
of-life care that is consistent with the preferences of dying patients and their families. ACP …

Advance care planning honors patients' goals and preferences for future care by creating a
plan for when illness or injury impedes the ability to think or communicate about health …