We are all going to die. Statistics indicate that a majority of us will do so in a hospital under
the oversight of health care providers. 1 Because 70% of these hospital deaths will occur …

In view of the current social dilemmas regarding the use of life-sustaining treatments (LST) at
the end of life, the purpose of the study was to reveal sources of interpersonal and …

OBJECTIVE: We sought to study the process by which decisions to commit individuals to
long-term nutritional support via percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) are made …

This article explores the extent to which Self-Assessed Health Status (SAH) can contribute to
the development of capitation and premium rates by predicting mortality, service use, and …

Elderly, functionally disabled enrollees in a managed care organization were randomly
assigned to case management or regular care. The service use and cost of care for the last …

Beyond just the physical management of disease. lowing concerns: physical pain and other
symptoms, psychological distress (depression and ex-istential anxiety), functioning …

Since the early 1980s, healthcare ethics committees (HEC) have spent considerable time
addressing end-of-life issues. Typically, H-ECs develop policies for do-not-resuscitate …

Betty A. Ditillo, MSN, RN, CCRN, CS, NP-C bers of the health care team are essential. End
of life education in medical schools inadequately prepares students to care for dying …

Numerous researchers have reported discrepancies between what patients say they want
regarding treatment choices near the end of life (eg advance directives) and the treatments …

Paul J. Weithman's argument is a constitutional one. 1 Agreeing with many liberals that the
state may not enforce controversial conceptions of the meaning of life on citizens who …