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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1999
Different types of advance directives invite varying interpretation from emergency care professionals. As informed consent of a patient is not always possible to procure in emergency situations, advance directives can provide useful guidelines for clinicians' decision-making processes regarding individual patient care.
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Different types of advance directives invite varying interpretation from emergency care professionals. As informed consent of a patient is not always possible to procure in emergency situations, advance directives can provide useful guidelines for clinicians' decision-making processes regarding individual patient care.
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Resuscitating Advance Directives
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004Advance directives have not fulfilled their promise of facilitating decisions about end-of-life care for incompetent patients. Many legal requirements and restrictions concerning advance directives are counterproductive. Requirements for witnessing or notarizing advance directives make it difficult for patients to complete a written directive during a ...
Bernard, Lo, Robert, Steinbrook
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Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 1992
Advance directives concerning treatment have been firmly established in our society. Reactions to them, however, are varied, especially when the health care provider possesses a different belief about the care, or non-provision of care, in a particular situation.
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Advance directives concerning treatment have been firmly established in our society. Reactions to them, however, are varied, especially when the health care provider possesses a different belief about the care, or non-provision of care, in a particular situation.
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Attitudes Toward Advance Directives and Advance Directive Completion Rates
Orthopaedic Nursing, 2005The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) (part of the ) requires that all healthcare institutions receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds inform patients about their right to participate in healthcare decisions, including their right to have an advance directive.
Susan W, Salmond, Estrella, David
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Psychiatric Advance Directives
Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2003Psychiatric advance directives are gaining attention as the number of consumers seeking metal health services increases. Even though medical advance directives have existed for years, psychiatric advance directives are in their infancy. The goal of these directives is to increase patient autonomy and decrease coercive treatment.
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The Hastings Center Report, 1994
As we define the ethical framework in which directives operate, we must heed empirical research. Studies indicate that patients, wishes about life-sustaining treatments are not entirely stable over time, though choices to forgo life-sustaining treatment seem to be much more stable than choices to receive such treatment.[1] One report provides an ...
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As we define the ethical framework in which directives operate, we must heed empirical research. Studies indicate that patients, wishes about life-sustaining treatments are not entirely stable over time, though choices to forgo life-sustaining treatment seem to be much more stable than choices to receive such treatment.[1] One report provides an ...
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Advance medical directives [PDF]
, 2013 Jesse J. Richardson, Jr. and L.
Richardson, Jesse J., Geyer, L. Leon
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ADVANCING AN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE DEBATE
Bioethics, 2008ABSTRACTA challenge has recently been levelled against the legal and/or moral legitimacy of some advance directives. It has been argued that in certain cases an advance directive carries no weight in a decision on whether to withhold treatment, since the individual in the debilitating state is not the same person as the person who created the advance ...
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American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2011
The number of elderly persons is expected to increase to 55 million by 2020, with the minority population increasing to 12.9 million, yet fewer than 30% of Americans have advance directives in place. Cultural values, religious beliefs, and family support systems are a few of the factors that influence or hinder the completion of advance directives ...
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The number of elderly persons is expected to increase to 55 million by 2020, with the minority population increasing to 12.9 million, yet fewer than 30% of Americans have advance directives in place. Cultural values, religious beliefs, and family support systems are a few of the factors that influence or hinder the completion of advance directives ...
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On Advancing Advance Directives
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995In a recentissue of theArchives, Reilly et al 1 undertook to determine whether a simple educational intervention, namely, the mailing of an educational brochure describing advance directives and a copy of the New York State Health Care Proxy form, would encourage outpatients in a community to execute durable health care proxies.
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