Putting advance-care planning into action

Journal of Clinical Ethics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 205-213

  Teno, Joan M ^a   Lynn, Joanne ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COUNSELING; DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; DECISION MAKING; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVING WILL; PATIENT CARE; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNCERTAINTY;

DEATH AND EUTHANASIA; PROFESSIONAL PATIENT RELATIONSHIP;

ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CATASTROPHIC ILLNESS; COMMUNICATION; COUNSELING; DECISION MAKING; DISCLOSURE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIVING WILLS; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; RECORDS; SOCIAL VALUES; TERMINAL CARE; UNCERTAINTY; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 0030228162     PISSN: 10467890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. J.M. Teno et al., "Advance Directives in End of Life Decision Making: Lessons from the Patient Self Determination Act and the SUPPORT Project," in press.
2. L.L. Emanuel and E.J. Emanuel, "The Medical Directive: a New Comprehensive Advance Care Document," Journal of the American Medical Association 261 (1989): 3288-93;
3. J.M. Gibson, "National Values History Project," Generations suppl. (1990): 51-64;
4. D.J. Doukas and W.R. Reichel, Planning for Uncertainty (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993).
5. J.M Teno, H.L. Nelson, and J. Lynn, "Advance Care Planning: Priorities for Ethical and Empirical Research," Hastings Center Report November-December suppl. (1994): 32-36.
6. L.L. Emanuel et al., "Advance Directives: Stability of Patients' Treatment Choices" Archives of Internal Medicine 154 (1994): 209-17;
7. M. Danis et al., "Stability of Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments," Annals of Internal Medicine 120 (1994): 567-73;
8. M.D. Silverstein et al., "Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Life-Sustaining Therapy: Patient's Desires for Information, Participation in Decision Making, and Life-Sustaining Therapy," Mayo Clinic Proceedings 66 (1991): 906-13.
9. M.R. Gillick, "A Broader Role for Advance Medical Planning," Annals of Internal Medicine 123 (1995): 621-24.
10. For simplicity, we have chosen to use the term physician-patient relationship. Often, allied healthcare providers play an important and key role in advance-care planning.