Advance Directives as Acts of Communication | Zendy

Peter H. Ditto | Zendy; Joseph H. Danks | Zendy; William D. Smucker | Zendy; Jamila Bookwala | Zendy; Kristen M. Coppola | Zendy; Rebecca Dresser | Zendy; Angela Fagerlin | Zendy; R. Mitchell Gready | Zendy; Renate Houts | Zendy; Lisa K. Lockhart | Zendy; Stephen J. Zyzanski | Zendy

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Advance Directives as Acts of Communication

Author(s) -

Peter H. Ditto,

Joseph H. Danks,

William D. Smucker,

Jamila Bookwala,

Kristen M. Coppola,

Rebecca Dresser,

Angela Fagerlin,

R. Mitchell Gready,

Renate Houts,

Lisa K. Lockhart,

Stephen J. Zyzanski

Publication year - 2001

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.161.3.421

Subject(s) - directive , psychological intervention , psychology , value (mathematics) , intervention (counseling) , medicine , nursing , computer science , machine learning , programming language

Instructional advance directives are widely advocated as a means of preserving patient self-determination at the end of life based on the assumption that they improve surrogates' understanding of patients' life-sustaining treatment wishes. However, no research has examined whether instructional directives are effective in improving the accuracy of surrogate decisions.

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