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Jan 1, 2000
Seriously ill hospitalized older patients were treated less aggressively than younger patients.
Jan 1, 1999
Controversy exists about the appropriateness of using age as a criterion for making treatment decisions.
Jan 1, 1998
The role of written advance directives (ADs) in medical decision making through examination of qualitative and quantitative data sources.
Describe characteristics, outcomes, and decision making in patients with colorectal cancer metastatic to the liver, and to examine the relationship of doctor-patient communication with patient understanding of prognosis and physician understanding of patients' treatment preferences.
Apr 1, 1997
Do not resuscitate (DNR) orders are increasingly common, though there has been little evaluation of their changing use. The authors contrasted the use and outcomes of DNR orders for nationally representative samples of Medicare patients hospitalized with specific diagnoses in 1981 to 1982 and 1985 to 1986.
Jan 1, 1997
To evaluate whether the lack of effect of advance directives (ADs) on decision-making in SUPPORT might arise, in part, from the content of the actual documents.
Aug 15, 1996
Medical treatment decisions should be based on the preferences of informed patients or their proxies and on the expected outcomes of treatment.
Jul 22, 1996
During serious illness, patient preferences regarding life-sustaining treatments play an important role in medical decisions. However, little is known about life-sustaining preference stability in this population or about factors associated with preference change.
Feb 1, 1996
For patients hospitalized with serious illnesses, we identified factors associated with a stated preference to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), examined physician-patient communication about these issues, and determined the relationship of patients' preferences to intensity of care and survival.
Jan 1, 1995
After adjustment for sickness at admission and functional impairment, DNR orders were assigned more often to older patients and differed by diagnosis.
Oct 1, 1994
The authors evaluated the capability of seriously ill patients to participate in decision making early in hospitalization and their decision making capacity two weeks before hospital entry.
Jan 1, 1994
The role of advance directives in resuscitation decision making and assessment of seriously ill patients.
