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Researchers at State University of New York publish new data on aging

Published in Medicine and Law Weekly, July 6th, 2007

A report, "The effectiveness of interventions to increase advance directive completion rates," is newly published data in Journal of Aging and Health. According to a study from the United States, "Despite federal and state laws governing advance directives (ADs), interventions to increase rates of legally completed ADs have not produced significant results. This study synthesizes the state of the science regarding effectiveness of interventions to increase AD completion rates."

"Garrard's method for conducting a systematic literature review was followed. In all, 25 studies meeting inclusion criteria were reviewed. fell into two types: (a) didactic-information...

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