Advance Directives

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A "shocking" new code status. 
  • A comparison of attitudes toward length and quality of life between community-dwelling older adults and patients with advanced cancer. 
  • A survey of stakeholder knowledge, experience, and opinions of advance directives for mental health in Virginia. 
  • A typology of advance statements in mental health care. 
  • Advance Directive Completion and Its Associated Factors Among Older Chinese Americans. 
  • Advance Directive Preferences Among Terminally Ill Older Patients and Its Facilitators and Barriers in China: A Scoping Review. 
  • Advance Directives and the Personal Identity Problem 
  • Advance care planning and health care preferences of community-dwelling elders: the Framingham Heart Study. 
  • Advance directives among cognitively impaired persons who had an amyloid PET scan and their care partners: a mixed-methods study. 
  • Advance directives and end-of-life care preferences among adults in Wuhan, China: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Applications of therapeutic jurisprudence in rehabilitation for people with severe and disabling mental illness. 
  • Appropriateness of psychiatric advance directives facilitated by peer support specialists and clinicians on Assertive Community Treatment teams. 
  • Assessing Quality in Advance Care Planning Documentation: A Survey of Current Methods. 
  • Associations between Patient Characteristics and a New, Early Do-Not-Attempt Resuscitation Order after Intracerebral Hemorrhage. 
  • Associations of Early Completion of Advance Directives With Key End-of-Life Quality Measures: Analysis of an ASCO Quality Oncology Practice Initiative Patient Cohort. 
  • Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study. 
  • Can a Surgeon Refuse to Operate When an Advance Directive Limits Postoperative Care? 
  • Cardiac care for older adults. Time for a new paradigm. 
  • Clinical decision making and views about psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Clinicians' attitudes regarding barriers to the implementation of psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Competence to complete psychiatric advance directives: effects of facilitated decision making. 
  • Concordance Between Veterans' Self-Report and Documentation of Surrogate Decision Makers: Implications for Quality Measurement. 
  • Consumer, provider, and informal caregiver opinions on psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Deciding for Others 
  • Differences in level of care at the end of life according to race. 
  • Do advance directives provide instructions that direct care? SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment. 
  • Effect of patients' reasons for refusing treatment on implementing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • End-of-life care in nursing home settings: do race or age matter? 
  • Facilitated psychiatric advance directives: a randomized trial of an intervention to foster advance treatment planning among persons with severe mental illness. 
  • Facilitation of Psychiatric Advance Directives by Peers and Clinicians on Assertive Community Treatment Teams. 
  • Front line workers' attitudes towards psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Further Reflections: Surrogate Decisionmaking When Significant Mental Capacities are Retained. 
  • How should we implement psychiatric advance directives? Views of consumers, caregivers, mental health providers and researchers. 
  • Impact of psychiatric advance directive facilitation on mental health consumers: empowerment, treatment attitudes and the role of peer support specialists. 
  • Implementing Psychiatric Advance Directives: The Transmitter and Receiver Problem and the Neglected Right to Be Deemed Incapable. 
  • Improving Access of Advance Directives in a Skilled Nursing Facility. 
  • Influence of ethnicity on advance directives and end-of-life decisions. 
  • Insurance Status and Ethnicity Impact Health Disparities in Rates of Advance Directives in Trauma. 
  • Interventions to improve transitional care between nursing homes and hospitals: a systematic review. 
  • Licensing Surrogate Decision-Makers. 
  • Making the Informal Formal: Discussing and Completing Advance Care Plans in Care Dyads with Cognitive Impairment. 
  • Mandated community treatment: beyond outpatient commitment. 
  • Medication preferences and adherence among individuals with severe mental illness and psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Mind the child: using interactive technology to improve child involvement in decision making about life-limiting illness. 
  • Opportunities to Improve Utilization of Palliative Care Among Adults With Cystic Fibrosis: A Systematic Review. 
  • Organ donation and treatment of the multi-organ donor. 
  • Overriding psychiatric advance directives: factors associated with psychiatrists' decisions to preempt patients' advance refusal of hospitalization and medication. 
  • Palliative Care Opportunities Among Adults With Congenital Heart Disease-A Systematic Review. 
  • Patient and family attitudes about an eye donation registry for research. 
  • Pediatric Goals of Care Communication: A Socioecological Model to Guide Conversations. 
  • Physician-assisted suicide and advance directives concerning life support. 
  • Physicians' experiences with prehospital do-not-resuscitate orders in North Carolina. 
  • Preferences for psychiatric advance directives among Latinos: views on advance care planning for mental health. 
  • Principal/agent theory and decision making in health care. 
  • Prior capacity of patients lacking decision making ability early in hospitalization: implications for advance directive administration. The SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives among public mental health consumers in five U.S. cities: prevalence, demand, and correlates. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives and social workers: an integrative review. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives: a tool for consumer empowerment and recovery. 
  • Psychiatric advance directives: an alternative to coercive treatment? 
  • Reasons for noncompletion of advance directives in a cardiac intensive care unit. 
  • Reducing barriers to completing psychiatric advance directives. 
  • Religiosity, spirituality, and end-of-life planning: a single-site survey of medical inpatients. 
  • Response to "Obstacles to palliation and end-of-life care in a long-term care facility". 
  • Special care unit research: ethical issues. 
  • Superseding psychiatric advance directives: ethical and legal considerations. 
  • TADA Is Still Unfair. 
  • The Final frontier. 
  • The Role of Anesthesiologists in Perioperative Limitation of Potentially Life-Sustaining Medical Treatments: A Narrative Review and Perspective. 
  • The stability of DNR orders on hospital readmission. The SUPPORT Investigators. Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments. 
  • To die, to sleep: US physicians' religious and other objections to physician-assisted suicide, terminal sedation, and withdrawal of life support. 
  • Understanding the personal and clinical utility of psychiatric advance directives: a qualitative perspective. 
  • Unmet Needs of African Americans and Whites at the Time of Palliative Care Consultation. 
  • What explains racial differences in the use of advance directives and attitudes toward hospice care? 
  • What factors are associated with having an advance directive among older adults who are new to long term care services? 
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  • Granger, Christopher Bull, Professor of Medicine, School of Nursing
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma