The empirical evidence regarding the implementation and impact of the federal Patient Self-
Determination Act is examined in this article. The Act was designed to increase the use of …

This article advocates greater empirical research on ethics in health care by social work
researchers. Although an extensive theoretical literature exists, scant empirical research has …

OBJECTIVE: The movement for advance planning of end-of-life care was motivated in part
by the assumption that medical intervention for terminally ill patients varies from what these …

I believe that all critical care practitioners would agree that patients and their families are
entitled to comprehensive, humane, and respectful care at all times, but especially when …

This study investigated students' wishes regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments (LST)
in different health conditions compared with their evaluations of the wishes of elderly people …

Background Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders for critically ill patients are frequently
miscommunicated between attending physicians, house staff, and nurses. A computer …

Toward a Pure Best Interests Model of Proxy Decision Making for Incompetent Psychiatric
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