Prevalence of advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders in community nursing
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Objectives To assess the prevalence of advance directives among nursing home residents
before and after passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) and to identify factors …

Advance directives are a means whereby competent individuals can guide treatment
decisions, and in many cases their death, at a future time when they may be rendered …

Objective: Ten years have passed since Congress enacted the Patient Self‐Determination
Act to promote the use of advance directives (ADs). This study was performed to determine …

OBJECTIVES: To report the prevalence of Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) directives and to
explore the factors associated with the presence of DNR directives among nursing home …

Abstract Background. The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1991 requires that nursing
homes reimbursed by Medicare or Medicaid inform all residents upon admission of their …

Study objective To evaluate the frequency with which advance directives (ADs) are available
at the time of admission and their impact on subsequent care in a medical intensive care unit …

We determined patient characteristics associated with do-not-resuscitate (DNR) status in
nursing homes using cross-sectional analysis of secondary data derived from Minimum Data …

Background: The appropriate role of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the hospital continues
to be a topic of interest to physicians and patients alike. The use of do not resuscitate (DNR) …

This study of an elderly population examined the prevalence of advance directives, the
barriers to documentation, and the relation of anxiety to advance directives. Elders (mean …