Advance Directives for Medical Care — A Case for Greater Use
Open Access
- 28 March 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 324 (13), 889-895
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199103283241305
Abstract
Advance directives for medical care and the designation of proxy decision makers to guide medical care after a patient has become incompetent have been widely advocated but little studied. We investigated the attitudes of patients toward planning, perceived barriers to such planning, treatment preferences in four hypothetical scenarios, and the feasibility of using a particular document (the Medical Directive) in the outpatient setting to specify advance directives.Keywords
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