The Patient Self-Determination Act aims to enhance patient awareness of advance directives by requiring health-care institutions to ask patients whether they have advance directives and to inform patients of their rights to prepare these documents. We investigated the following: (1) compliance of the hospital staff with implementing this act, (2) the effects of this act on the extent to which patients discuss and prepare advance directives, and (3) variables that might influence patient discussions on advance planning and preparation of advance directives.We surveyed 219 patients from a university hospital that implemented a nurse-dependent advance directive program. We also conducted a telephone interview with 57
作者:H J, Silverman;P, Tuma;M H, Schaeffer;B, Singh
来源:Archives of internal medicine 1995 年 155卷 5期