The cancer specific advance directive

Redrafting Ohio's advance directive laws.

A comparison of state advance directive documents.

PURPOSE Advance directive (AD) documents are based on state-specific statutes and vary in terms of content. These differences can create confusion and inconsistencies resulting in a possible failure to honor the health care wishes of people who execute health care documents for one state and receive health care in another state. The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differen...

Japanese patients' preferences for receiving cancer test results while in the United States: introducing an advance directive for cancer disclosure.

BACKGROUND While disclosure of cancer is routine in the United States, it is not in Japan. The primary goals of this investigation were to describe overseas Japanese patients' preferences for participation in decisions about cancer; to delineate patients' beliefs about how physicians should make cancer disclosure decisions; and to assess patients' attitudes about a advance directive for cancer ...

New CMS guidelines suggest changes in advance directive policies.

[Seniors' knowledge of and attitudes to advance directive documents].

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine seniors' knowledge of and attitudes toward advance directive documents. METHODS We carried out a cross-sectional descriptive study in a primary care setting in the provinces of Albacete and Guadalajara, Spain (n = 464). RESULTS A total of 86.2% (95% CI: 83.0-89.5) of the participants were unaware of advance directive documents and only 3.4% ...