Delegalizing Advance Directives — Facilitating Advance Care Planning
- 1 June 2017
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 376 (22), 2105-2107
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1700502
Abstract
Legal formalities impose barriers to creating advance directives. Eliminating legal requirements would allow such documents to be more easily integrated into health care systems and would increase the likelihood of their being used to achieve their intended goals.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- Lost in Translation: The Unintended Consequences of Advance Directive Law on Clinical CareAnnals of Internal Medicine, 2011