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Dementia
Research from E.D. Abbo and co-researchers in the area of dementia published
July 19th, 2008
According to recent research published in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, "Instructional advance directives (ADs) are traditionally written to apply in terminal illness. As such, they do not readily capture patient preferences for care in acute and chronic illness." "To test whether patients prefer a modified AD that includes preferences to limit life-sustaining therapy (LST) for critical illness and advanced dementia over a traditional AD. A convenience sample of medically stable, hospitalized general medical patients were presented a traditional AD (the recommended Illinois statutory living will that limits LST in terminal illness) and a modified AD. The...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2008-07-19)
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