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Implementing advance directives in office practice.
Patients prepare advance directives in an effort to maintain autonomy during periods of incapacity or at the end of life. Advance directive documents are specific to the state in which the patient lives, but an effective strategy in the family physician's office involves more than filling out a form. Physician barriers to completing an advance directive include lack of time and discomfort with ...
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Resolution of long-standing debates about the role and impact of advance directives - living wills and powers of attorney for health care - has been hampered by a dearth of appropriate data, in particular data that compare the process and outcomes of end-of-life decision making on behalf of patients with and without advance directives. Drawing on a large ethnographic study of patients in two in...
متن کاملRelationship of advance directives to physician-patient communication.
BACKGROUND Although advance medical directives, such as living wills and durable powers of attorney for health care, are by themselves imperfect instruments for expressing patients' treatment preferences, a possible benefit of these documents is that they will enhance patient-physician communication, especially when end-of-life treatment decisions have to be made. METHOD Structured interviews...
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Continued on Page 3 Patients who enter hospice with an advance directive (AD) already completed may have an enhanced hospice experience. Compared with patients who enroll without an AD, they have longer lengths of stay, are less likely to die in an inpatient setting, and are less likely to leave hospice voluntarily, according to a report published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Socie...
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In New Zealand an advance directive can be either an oral statement or a written document. Such directives give individuals the opportunity to make choices about future medical treatment in the event they are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to make their preferences known. All consumers of health care have the right to make an advance directive in accordance with the common law. When w...
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عنوان ژورنال: Deutsches Aerzteblatt Online
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1866-0452
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2014.0048