Psychiatry related information on Advance Directives

• PURPOSE: To explore the experiences of residents who had signed an advance directive on admission to a long-term care facility and apply the Advance Directive Decision-Making Model to this process [1].

High impact information on Advance Directives

• BACKGROUND: Past research has documented that primary care physicians and family members are often inaccurate when making substituted judgments for patients without advance directives (ADs) [2].
• BACKGROUND: Advance directives have not been uniformly used by different segments of the US population and studies have consistently shown a lower prevalence of advance directives among African Americans and Hispanics compared with non-Hispanic whites [3].
• To estimate rates of advance directive completion, preference for in-home death and hospice services at life's end, and support for physician assistance in dying, questions were added to two statewide, random-sample telephone surveys-the 1998 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (N=2,153) and the 1999 OmniTrak health survey (N=700) [4].
• Personal identity, advance directives, and genetic testing for Alzheimer disease [5].
• Advance directives: questionnaire survey of NHS trusts [6].

Associations of Advance Directives with chemical compounds

• The author presents an overview of two studies about advance directives as reported in the New England Journal of Medicine [7].

Gene context of Advance Directives

• Because the prognosis of COPD may be guarded, the practitioner is obligated to provide information on advance directives [8].
• Advance directives in COPD [9].
• Need for advance directives focus of AARP campaign [10].
• Advance directives pamphlet. University Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas [11].
• Triggers for advance directives. Part Two [12].

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