Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly implemented in oncology and beyond, but a
definition of ACP and recommendations concerning its use are lacking. We used a formal …

Background: Clinical practice relies on surrogates to make or help to make treatment
decisions for incapacitated adults; however, the effect of this practice on surrogates has not …

Objectives: Shared decision making is endorsed by critical care organizations; however,
there remains confusion about what shared decision making is, when it should be used, and …

Background Recent discussions about health care reform have raised questions regarding
the value of advance directives. Methods We used data from survey proxies in the Health …

The traditional objective of advance care planning has been to have patients make
treatment decisions in advance so that clinicians can attempt to provide care consistent with …

Objective.—To study differences in the attitudes of elderly subjects from different ethnic
groups toward disclosure of the diagnosis and prognosis of a terminal illness and toward …

Background Studies suggest that a majority of elderly patients would want to undergo
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) if they had a cardiac arrest. Yet few studies have …

Society today, writes Stephen Post, is" hypercognitive": it places inordinate emphasis on
people's powers of rational thinking and memory. Thus, Alzheimer disease and other …

When patients have progressive and incurable dementia, should their advance directives
always be followed? Contra Dworkin, Dresser argues that when patients remain able to …

Background Instructional advance directives are widely advocated as a means of preserving
patient self-determination at the end of life based on the assumption that they improve …