Advance directive bill

Redrafting Ohio's advance directive laws.

A comparison of state advance directive documents.

PURPOSE Advance directive (AD) documents are based on state-specific statutes and vary in terms of content. These differences can create confusion and inconsistencies resulting in a possible failure to honor the health care wishes of people who execute health care documents for one state and receive health care in another state. The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differen...

New CMS guidelines suggest changes in advance directive policies.

[Seniors' knowledge of and attitudes to advance directive documents].

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine seniors' knowledge of and attitudes toward advance directive documents. METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study in a primary care setting in the provinces of Albacete and Guadalajara, Spain (n = 464). RESULTS A total of 86.2% (95% CI: 83.0-89.5) of the participants were unaware of advance directive documents and only 3.4% ...

Advance directive completion by elderly Americans: a decade of change.

OBJECTIVES To describe trends in advance directive (AD) completion from 2000 to 2010 and to explore the relationship between AD and hospitalization and hospital death at the end of life. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Health and Retirement Study (HRS). PARTICIPANTS HRS participants who died between 2000 and 2010 and were aged 60 and older at death (N = 6,122). MEASUREMENTS T...