OBJECTIVE:High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months of life by medical sub-specialists. This study was undertaken to determine if doctors' age, ethnicity, medical sub-specialty and personal resuscitation and organ donation preferences influenced their attitudes toward Advance Directives (AD) and to compare a cohort of 2013 doctors to a 1989 (one year before the Patient Self Determination Act in 1990) cohort to determine any changes in attitudes towards AD in the past 23 years. DESIGN:Doctors in two academic medical centers participated in an AD simulation and attitudes survey in 2013 and their responses were compared to a cohort of doctors in 1989. OUTCOMES:Resuscitation and organ donation prefer...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
This population-based study employing after-death interviews with proxies describes older persons' p...
High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months of life by me...
Objective: High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months of...
The incidence of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has...
Background: This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applyi...
Background: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their ...
Background: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their ...
Abstract Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals whe...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
This population-based study employing after-death interviews with proxies describes older persons' p...
High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months of life by me...
Objective: High-intensity interventions are provided to seriously-ill patients in the last months of...
The incidence of organ donation after circulatory death (DCD) in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) has...
Background: This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applyi...
Background: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their ...
Background: To determine the extent to which members of the general population have talked to their ...
Abstract Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals whe...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
International audienceBackground: There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to...
This population-based study employing after-death interviews with proxies describes older persons' p...