advance directive adherence

Summary

Summary: Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct their own care.

Webpages

  1. advance directive adherence
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  2. friends
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  3. mesh descriptor: quality of health care
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Publications

  1. Precommitment: a misguided strategy for securing death with dignity
    Rebecca Dresser
    Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1823-47
  2. Precommitment issues in bioethics
    John A Robertson
    University of Texas School of Law, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1849-76
  3. Justified paternalism: the nature of beneficence in the care of dementia patients
    Kashina Groves
    University of Washington, USA
    Penn Bioeth J 2:17-20
  4. Protecting autonomy as authenticity using Ulysses contracts
    Theo van Willigenburg
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Oudegracht 291, 3511 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    J Med Philos 30:395-409
  5. The concept of precedent autonomy
    John K Davis
    The Brody School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University, Brody Medical Sciences Building 2S 17, Greenville, NC 27858 4354, USA
    Bioethics 16:114-33
  6. Respecting the wishes of patients in intensive care units
    Satomi Kinoshita
    Kanagawa University of Human Services, Faculty of Health and Social Work, School of Nursing, Yokosuka Kanagawa
    Nurs Ethics 14:651-64
  7. Sharing death and dying: advance directives, autonomy and the family
    Ho Mun Chan
    Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
    Bioethics 18:87-103
  8. Hypothetical autonomy and actual autonomy: some problem cases involving advance directives
    Michael J Wreen
    School of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michigan, USA
    J Clin Ethics 15:319-33
  9. Advancing an advance directive debate
    Christopher Buford
    University of Redlands, Department of Philosophy, Redlands, California 92373, USA
    Bioethics 22:423-30
  10. End-of-life decisions: family views on advance directives
    Ellen W Bernal
    Ethics, St Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry Street, Toledo, OH 43608, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 24:300-7

Scientific Experts

Detail Information

Webpages4

  1. advance directive adherence
    lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:207093
  2. friends
    lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:207090
  3. mesh descriptor: quality of health care
    www.fred.psu.edu/ds/retrieve/fred/meshdescriptor/D011787
  4. love
    buchta.lib.bioinfo.pl/meid:51491

Publications62

  1. Precommitment: a misguided strategy for securing death with dignity
    Rebecca Dresser
    Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1823-47
  2. Precommitment issues in bioethics
    John A Robertson
    University of Texas School of Law, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1849-76
  3. Justified paternalism: the nature of beneficence in the care of dementia patients
    Kashina Groves
    University of Washington, USA
    Penn Bioeth J 2:17-20
    ..Here, I offer an objection to Dworkin's assessment of the nature of paternalism as it relates to cases of permanent dementia...
  4. Protecting autonomy as authenticity using Ulysses contracts
    Theo van Willigenburg
    Erasmus University Rotterdam, Oudegracht 291, 3511 PA Rotterdam, The Netherlands
    J Med Philos 30:395-409
    ..We elucidate this concept of autonomy as authenticity, by showing how Ulysses contracts protect the possibility of being "a self."..
  5. The concept of precedent autonomy
    John K Davis
    The Brody School of Medicine, Department of Medical Humanities, East Carolina University, Brody Medical Sciences Building 2S 17, Greenville, NC 27858 4354, USA
    Bioethics 16:114-33
    ....
  6. Respecting the wishes of patients in intensive care units
    Satomi Kinoshita
    Kanagawa University of Human Services, Faculty of Health and Social Work, School of Nursing, Yokosuka Kanagawa
    Nurs Ethics 14:651-64
    ..The results thus suggest that there has been insufficient discussion about respecting the wishes of patients undergoing intensive care...
  7. Sharing death and dying: advance directives, autonomy and the family
    Ho Mun Chan
    Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
    Bioethics 18:87-103
    ....
  8. Hypothetical autonomy and actual autonomy: some problem cases involving advance directives
    Michael J Wreen
    School of Philosophy, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Michigan, USA
    J Clin Ethics 15:319-33
  9. Advancing an advance directive debate
    Christopher Buford
    University of Redlands, Department of Philosophy, Redlands, California 92373, USA
    Bioethics 22:423-30
    ..In the penultimate section, possible models supporting the viability of the advance directives are considered. The final section makes good on an obligation incurred by the title of the paper...
  10. End-of-life decisions: family views on advance directives
    Ellen W Bernal
    Ethics, St Vincent Mercy Medical Center, 2213 Cherry Street, Toledo, OH 43608, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 24:300-7
    ..A unique survey instrument can be used to measure family perceptions and opinions of participation in decisions about end-of-life care...
  11. When family members disagree
    Edmund G Howe
    Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
    J Clin Ethics 18:331-9
  12. The disutility of advance directives: we know the problems, but are there solutions?
    Daniel P Hickey
    Medical College of Ohio, USA
    J Health Law 36:455-73
    ....
  13. Attitudes toward advance directives and the impact of prognostic information on the preference for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in medical inpatients in Chiang Mai University Hospital, Thailand
    Sudarat Sittisombut
    Department of Surgical Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
    Nurs Health Sci 7:243-50
    ..Our investigation suggested that the preference of patients for CPR should be assessed individually and gradually, with adequate information given on the chance of survival...
  14. A framework for making advance decisions on resuscitation
    Claud Regnard
    Palliative Medicine, St Oswald s Hospice, Newcastle upon Tyne
    Clin Med 5:354-60
    ..This framework is offered as an aid for clinicians and patients in understanding the current ethical, clinical and legal guidance on decisions about CPR...
  15. Compliance with and understanding of advance directives among trainee doctors in the United Kingdom
    Claire A Stark Toller
    Sir Michael Sobell House, Oxford, England, UK
    J Palliat Care 22:141-6
    ..Confusion exists among doctors about the legal status of advance directives, which limits their usefulness. Medical education needs to be improved to train doctors to deal with advance directives...
  16. Precommitment analysis and societal moral identity
    Richard S Markovits
    University of Texas School of Law, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1877-927
  17. Advance directives, best interests and clinical judgement: shifting sands at the end of life
    Ash Samanta
    University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
    Clin Med 6:274-8
    ..This paper examines contemporary issues surrounding end-of-life decision-making against the backdrop of the existing and proposed legal framework...
  18. The state of advance care planning: one decade after SUPPORT
    Lauren G Collins
    Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107, USA
    Am J Hosp Palliat Care 23:378-84
    ..This rekindled the discussion on advance care planning and challenged health care providers to design more flexible approaches to end of life care...
  19. Determining the relationship between end-of-life decisions expressed in advance directives and resuscitation efforts during cardiopulmonary resuscitation
    M Gilbert
    Shands Hospital, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
    Outcomes Manag Nurs Pract 5:87-92
    ..quot; Information from this study may be used to clarify treatment options for end-of-life care and to determine if and what further interventions are required to ensure that advance directives can be executed as meaningful documents...
  20. Ulysses arrangements in psychiatry: a matter of good care?
    I Gremmen
    Nijmegen School of Management, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
    J Med Ethics 34:77-80
    ....
  21. Adherence to advance directives in critical care decision making: vignette study
    Trevor Thompson
    Division of Primary Health Care, University of Bristol, Bristol BS6 6JL
    BMJ 327:1011
    ..Some of this variability is related to the ambiguity of the directive's terminology whereas some is related to the willingness of health professionals to make subjective value judgments concerning quality of life...
  22. [Care of polytrauma and the conflict between "acting and omitting". Medical, ethical and legal aspects in the current debate on the legal validity of patient directives]
    U Schweigkofler
    Unfallchirurgische Klinik, Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Frankfurt am Main, Friedberger Landstr 430, 60389 Frankfurt am Main
    Unfallchirurg 109:770-6
    ....
  23. End-of-life treatment decisions in long-term care
    Mary Ellen Wurzbach
    University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, USA
    J Gerontol Nurs 28:14-21
  24. Reviving Ulysses contracts
    Ryan Spellecy
    Center for the Study of Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
    Kennedy Inst Ethics J 13:373-92
    ....
  25. [End-of-life decisions, powers of attorney, and advance directives]
    R J Jox
    Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Palliativmedizin, Klinikum der Universität München, Marchioninistrasse 15, Munich, Germany
    Nervenarzt 79:729-37; quiz 738-9
    ..This implies that life-sustaining treatment may be withdrawn or withheld, which is best accomplished with sensitivity to the needs of patients, relatives, and health care professionals...
  26. Do orders limiting aggressive treatment impact care for acute myocardial infarction?
    Tiffany A Radcliff
    VA Eastern Colorado Healthcare System, HSR and D TREP for Long term Care Research, Denver, CO 80220, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 8:91-7
    ..Quality improvement measures will need to take this difference into account and ensure that physicians are not penalized for complying with patient care preferences...
  27. [Advance directives, powers of attorney and end-of-life decisions]
    R J Jox
    Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Palliativmedizin der Universität München
    MMW Fortschr Med 150:33-4, 36
  28. Compliance with patients' end-of-life wishes by nursing homes in New York City with conscience policies
    C K Hosay
    Department of Health Services, Lehman College of CUNY, 250 Bedford Park Boulevard West, G-431, Bronx, NY 10468, USA
    Omega (Westport) 44:57-76
    ..Implications for administrators, policy makers, and regulators are discussed...
  29. Adherence to advance directives: GMC's advance directive is commendable
    Andrew G Higgs
    BMJ 327:1406
  30. Adherence to advance directives: quality of life matters
    Michael H Yardley
    BMJ 327:1406-7
  31. Perioperative do-not-resuscitate orders--doing 'nothing' when 'something' can be done
    Mark Ewanchuk
    Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
    Crit Care 10:219
    ..There are many obstacles yet to overcome, but several practical strategies exist to aid health care workers and patients alike...
  32. End-of-life decisions: influence of advance directives on patient care
    Elizabeth H Dobbins
    Walters State Community College, Morristown, Tennessee 37813, USA
    J Gerontol Nurs 33:50-6
    ..Recommendations for future research include implementation and evaluation of educational initiatives for both health care consumers and health care providers...
  33. The POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) paradigm to improve end-of-life care: potential state legal barriers to implementation
    Susan E Hickman
    School of Nursing, Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, USA
    J Law Med Ethics 36:119-40, 4
    ..Information was obtained from experts at state emergency medical services and long-term care organizations/agencies in combination with a review of relevant state law...
  34. What makes suffering "unbearable and hopeless"? Advance directives, dementia and disability
    Sara Goering
    University of Washington, USA
    Am J Bioeth 7:62-3; discussion W4-6
  35. Nursing facility compliance with do-not-hospitalize orders
    Aram Dobalian
    Department of Health Services Administration, University of Florida, PO Box 100195, Gainesville, FL 32610 0195, USA
    Gerontologist 44:159-65
    ..IMPLICATIONS: Improved education regarding advance directives, particularly DNH orders, is necessary for health care practitioners and patients. More consistent and rigorous policies should be implemented in nursing facilities...
  36. Advance directives and medical treatment at the end of life
    Daniel P Kessler
    Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
    J Health Econ 23:111-27
    ..Third, neither type of law leads to any savings in medical expenditures...
  37. Association between advance directives and quality of end-of-life care: a national study
    Joan M Teno
    Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 55:189-94
    ..CONCLUSION: Bereaved family member report of completion of an AD was associated with greater use of hospice and fewer reported concerns with communication, yet important opportunities remain to improve the quality of end-of-life care...
  38. Advance care planning is not about "getting it right"
    David Barnard
    Department of Medicine and Center for Bioethics and Health Law, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
    J Palliat Med 5:475-81
  39. Nursing monitors effectiveness of end-of-life statute
    Stephanie Tabone
    Texas Nurses Association, USA
    Tex Nurs 80:13-4
  40. Advanced care planning in ALS
    Walter G Bradley
    Muscle Nerve 25:923
  41. Introduction. "Paying the alligator": precommitment in law, bioethics, and constitutions
    John A Robertson
    University of Texas School of Law, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1729-49
  42. Precommitment in bioethics: some theoretical issues
    Dan W Brock
    Department of Clinical Bioethics, National Institutes of Health, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1805-21
  43. Making a clean break: addiction and Ulysses contracts
    Chrisoula Andreou
    Department of Philosophy, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112, USA
    Bioethics 22:25-31
    ....
  44. Currents in contemporary ethics
    David John Doukas
    Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law at the University of Louisville, USA
    J Law Med Ethics 33:372-4
  45. Medical futility and the Texas solution to conflict about care
    Deborah L Volker
    The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing, USA
    J Nurs Law 9:29-36
  46. Twenty propositions
    Nicholas Tonti-Filippini
    Hum Life Rev 30:83-109
  47. Adherence to advance directives: maybe doctors do not always know best
    Philip S Jones
    BMJ 327:1407
  48. Managed death in a PACE: pathways in present and advance directives
    Richard Schamp
    Department of Community and Family Medicine, St Louis University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63104, USA
    J Am Med Dir Assoc 7:339-44
    ..Future research to validate the methodology employed in this intervention should be conducted in other long-term care settings...
  49. Pain management is part of advance directives discussion
    Timothy J Benton
    Am Fam Physician 73:1331-2
  50. Respecting end-of-life treatment preferences
    Monica K Crane
    Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 10104, USA
    Am Fam Physician 72:1263-8
    ....
  51. Would physicians override a do-not-resuscitate order when a cardiac arrest is iatrogenic?
    D J Casarett
    University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
    J Gen Intern Med 14:35-8
    ..This response to iatrogenic cardiac arrests, and its possible generalization to other iatrogenic complications, deserves further consideration and discussion...
  52. Patient-centered informed consent in surgical practice
    James L Bernat
    Neurology Section, Department of Medicine, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth Medical School, 1 Medical Center Drive, Lebanon, NH 03756, USA
    Arch Surg 141:86-92
    ..In the context of patient-centered medicine, consent is best conceptualized as shared decision making with patients or their surrogates...
  53. [Guidelines on do-not-resuscitate orders in Norwegian hospitals]
    Ingrid Sommer
    Seksjon for medisinsk etikk, Institutt for allmenn og samfunnsmedisin, Det medisinske fakultet Universitetet i Oslo, Postboks 1130 Blindern, 0318 Oslo
    Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 127:1368-9
    ..INTERPRETATION: National guidelines should be developed to clarify key questions and contribute to more consistent practice concerning do-not-resuscitate orders...
  54. When a family member changes their mind regarding the DNR order: the importance of documentation
    Bernard M Karnath
    University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, USA
    Ethics Med 20:31-4
  55. Precedent autonomy and subsequent consent
    John K Davis
    Department of Philosophy, University of Tennessee, 816 McClung Tower, Knoxville, TN 37996 0480, USA
    Ethical Theory Moral Pract 7:267-91
    ..To respect autonomy in such cases we must respect not a current, but a former or later preference...
  56. Research advance directives: protection or obstacle?
    Palaniappan Muthappan
    Department of Clinical Bioethics, NIH, Bldg. 10, Rm. 1C118, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
    Am J Psychiatry 162:2389-91
    ..CONCLUSIONS: Proposals to allow cognitively impaired adults to participate in research only with a formal advance directive could block important research. More flexible approaches should be considered to protect these individuals...
  57. Commitment problems in the theory of rational choice
    Robert H Frank
    Johnson Graduate School of Management and Department of Economics, Cornell University, USA
    Tex Law Rev 81:1789-804
  58. Advance healthcare directives
    Raymond Hoffenberg
    Clin Med 6:231-3
  59. A time to die
    Michael J Mackay
    Emergency Department, Mackay Base Hospital, Mackay QLD
    Med J Aust 181:667-8
  60. Help! My body is being invaded by an alien!
    Dena Davis
    Cleveland-Marshall School of Law, USA
    Am J Bioeth 7:60-1; discussion W4-6
  61. [The problem of performing medical procedures without informed consent in unconscious patients]
    H C Hansen
    Klinik für Neurologie und Psychiatrie, Friedrich Ebert Krankenhaus Neumünster GmbH, Friesenstrasse 11, Neumünster, Germany
    Nervenarzt 79:706-15
    ..Any such decisions must be documented comprehensively in hospital records...
  62. Complexity of treatment decisions with older patients
    Roger A Fisken
    Clin Med 8:114-5