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| Do advance directives provide instructions that direct care? | | Author(s) | Joan M Teno, Sandra Licks, Joanne Lynn |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 45, no 4, April 1997 |
| Pages | pp 508-512 |
| Keywords | Medical care ; Terminal care ; Wills ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Advance directives (ADs), or living wills, are legally endorsed documents which set out instructions for care or name a proxy decision-maker in the event of future decisional incapacity. However, if ADs are to be effective, they must contain explicit instructions about when to use or not to use life-sustaining medical treatment. This study examined the contents of ADs submitted by patients participating in the Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT), a five hospital project to describe and improve decision-making and outcomes for seriously ill patients. Findings showed that the documents analysed did not guide medical decision-making beyond naming a proxy decision-maker or documenting general preferences in a standard living will format. |
| Accession Number | CPA-970812257 A |
| Classmark | LK: LV: VTH: 7T |
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