Advance Directives

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Jan 1, 2003

Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering

The authors discuss serious, recurring, and generally unnoticed errors in planning for care near the end of life and possible steps toward improvement
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Jan 1, 2001

End-of-life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons with HIV

Half of all persons infected with HIV are at risk of making end-of-life decisions without prior discussions with their health care practitioners.
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Jan 1, 2000

Decision-Making and Outcomes of Prolonged ICU Stays in Seriously Ill Patients

Prolonged ICU stays were expensive and were often followed by death or disability.
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Jan 1, 2000

Patients Who Want Their Family and Physician to Make Resuscitation Decisions for Them: Observations from SUPPORT and HELP

These results underscore the need to understand resuscitation preferences within a broader context of patient values.
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Jan 1, 2000

Communication and Decision-Making in Seriously Ill Patients: Findings of the SUPPORT Project

SUPPORT documents that physicians and surrogates are often unaware of seriously ill patients' preferences.
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Jan 1, 2000

Insights About Dying from the SUPPORT Project

SUPPORT aimed to describe and compare decision-making affecting seriously ill patients, it also illuminated other aspects of their course near death.
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Jan 1, 2000

Age-related Differences in Care Preferences, Treatment Decisions, and Clinical Outcomes of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Lessons from SUPPORT

Seriously ill hospitalized older patients were treated less aggressively than younger patients.
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Jan 1, 2000

Physician Understanding of Patient Resuscitation Preferences: Insights and Clinical Implications

Physicians often misunderstand seriously ill, hospitalized patients' resuscitation preferences, especially preferences to forego CPR.
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Jan 1, 1999

Patient Age and Decisions to Withhold Life-Sustaining Treatments from Seriously Ill, Hospitalized Adults

Controversy exists about the appropriateness of using age as a criterion for making treatment decisions.
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Jan 1, 1998

Role of Written Advance Directives in Decision Making: Insights from Qualitative and Quantitative Data

The role of written advance directives (ADs) in medical decision making through examination of qualitative and quantitative data sources.
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Jan 1, 1998

Outcomes, Preferences for Resuscitation, and Physician-Patient Communication Among Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Describe characteristics, outcomes, and decision making in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver, and to examine the relationship of doctor-patient communication with patient understanding of prognosis and physician understanding of patients' treatment preferences.
Research

Apr 1, 1997

Changes Over Time in the Use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders and the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Them

Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are increasingly common, though there has been little evaluation of their changing use. The authors contrasted the use and outcomes of DNR orders for nationally representative samples of Medicare patients hospitalized with specific diagnoses in 1981 to 1982 and 1985 to 1986.

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Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering

End-of-life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons with HIV

Decision-Making and Outcomes of Prolonged ICU Stays in Seriously Ill Patients

Patients Who Want Their Family and Physician to Make Resuscitation Decisions for Them: Observations from SUPPORT and HELP

Communication and Decision-Making in Seriously Ill Patients: Findings of the SUPPORT Project

Insights About Dying from the SUPPORT Project

Age-related Differences in Care Preferences, Treatment Decisions, and Clinical Outcomes of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Lessons from SUPPORT

Physician Understanding of Patient Resuscitation Preferences: Insights and Clinical Implications

Patient Age and Decisions to Withhold Life-Sustaining Treatments from Seriously Ill, Hospitalized Adults

Role of Written Advance Directives in Decision Making: Insights from Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Outcomes, Preferences for Resuscitation, and Physician-Patient Communication Among Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Changes Over Time in the Use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders and the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Them

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Advance Care Planning for Fatal Chronic Illness: Avoiding Commonplace Errors and Unwarranted Suffering

End-of-life Discussions and Preferences Among Persons with HIV

Decision-Making and Outcomes of Prolonged ICU Stays in Seriously Ill Patients

Patients Who Want Their Family and Physician to Make Resuscitation Decisions for Them: Observations from SUPPORT and HELP

Communication and Decision-Making in Seriously Ill Patients: Findings of the SUPPORT Project

Insights About Dying from the SUPPORT Project

Age-related Differences in Care Preferences, Treatment Decisions, and Clinical Outcomes of Seriously Ill Hospitalized Adults: Lessons from SUPPORT

Physician Understanding of Patient Resuscitation Preferences: Insights and Clinical Implications

Patient Age and Decisions to Withhold Life-Sustaining Treatments from Seriously Ill, Hospitalized Adults

Role of Written Advance Directives in Decision Making: Insights from Qualitative and Quantitative Data

Outcomes, Preferences for Resuscitation, and Physician-Patient Communication Among Patients with Metastatic Colorectal Cancer

Changes Over Time in the Use of Do Not Resuscitate Orders and the Outcomes of Patients Receiving Them

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