Open AccessAre Canadians Providing Advance Directives about Health Care and Research Participation in the Event of Decisional Incapacity?
Author(s) -
Gina Bravo,
MarieFrance Dubois,
Carole E. Cohen,
Sheila Wildeman,
Janice Graham,
Karen Painter,
Suzanne Bellemare
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
the canadian journal of psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.68
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1497-0015
pISSN - 0706-7437
DOI - 10.1177/070674371105600404
Subject(s) - health care , control (management) , event (particle physics) , psychology , advance care planning , public relations , mechanism (biology) , business , applied psychology , political science , economics , management , law , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics
Advance planning for health care and research participation has been promoted as a mechanism to retain some control over one's life, and ease substitute decision making, in the event of decisional incapacity. Limited data are available on Canadians' current advance planning activities. We conducted a postal survey to estimate the frequency with which Canadians communicate their preferences about health care and research should they become incapacitated.
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