Life‐Sustaining Treatment Decisions by Spouses of Patients with Alzheimer's Disease

The Global Deterioration Scale for assessment of primary degenerative dementia

1982 • 4,700 citations

Subjective Burden of Husbands and Wives as Caregivers: A Longitudinal Study

1986 • 1,700 citations

Trends in Medicare Payments in the Last Year of Life

1993 • 726 citations

OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT

1987 • 512 citations

A Prospective Study of Advance Directives for Life-Sustaining Care

1991 • 493 citations

Physicians' and Spouses' Predictions of Elderly Patients' Resuscitation Preferences

1988 • 474 citations

Substituted judgment: How accurate are proxy predictions?

1991 • 416 citations

Patient Attitudes to Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatment

1986 • 324 citations

An Intervention That Delays Institutionalization of Alzheimer's Disease Patients: Treatment of Spouse-Caregivers

1993 • 313 citations

Finding Meaning: An Alternative Paradigm for Alzheimer's Disease Family Caregivers

1991 • 285 citations

Effects of Offering Advance Directives on Medical Treatments and Costs

1992 • 264 citations

Quality of Life in Chronic Diseases: Perceptions of Elderly Patients

1988 • 243 citations

Alzheimer's disease treatment and family stress : directions for research

1990 • 243 citations

Patients' and Families' Preferences for Medical Intensive Care

1989 • 222 citations

Perceived Quality of Life and Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatment in Older Adults

1991 • 217 citations

Biases in how physicians choose to withdraw life support

1993 • 200 citations

Factors Contributing to the Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents

1989 • 184 citations

Hospice Approach to the Treatment of Patients With Advanced Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

1986 • 169 citations

Health Care Decisions Among Elderly Long-term Care Residents and Their Potential Proxies

1989 • 158 citations

Sources of Concern about the Patient Self-Determination Act

1991 • 157 citations

Patients' and Families' Preferences for Medical Intensive Care

1988 • 152 citations

All in the Family: Extended Autonomy and Expectations in Surrogate Health Care Decision-Making1

1988 • 150 citations

Stressors and Well-Being Among Caregivers to Older Adults with Dementia: The In-Home Versus Nursing Home Experience

1991 • 132 citations

The Influence of Treatment Descriptions on Advance Medical Directive Decisions

1992 • 131 citations

Stability of Patient Preferences Regarding Life-Sustaining Treatments

1990 • 127 citations

Evaluation of Patient, Physician, Nurse, and Family Attitudes Toward Do Not Resuscitate Orders

1990 • 121 citations

Loss of control, self-blame, and depression: An investigation of spouse caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients.

1985 • 118 citations

Loss of control, self-blame, and depression: An investigation of spouse caregivers of Alzheimer's disease patients.

1985 • 108 citations

The Use of Quality‐of‐Life Considerations in Medical Decision Making

1985 • 102 citations

The Impact of Elder Health, Caregiver Involvement, and Global Stress on Two Dimensions of Caregiver Burden

1991 • 97 citations

An Empirical Study of Proxy Consent for Elderly Persons

1990 • 96 citations

'Do Not Resuscitate' Decisions

1985 • 96 citations

Impact of Medical Hospitalization on Treatment Decision-Making Capacity in the Elderly

1990 • 95 citations

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation: how useful? Attitudes and knowledge of an elderly population.

1992 • 94 citations

Guiding the Hand That Feeds

1984 • 94 citations

How Do Patients with Alzheimer's Disease Cope with Their Illness? ‐ A Clinical Experience Report

1995 • 92 citations

The do-not-resuscitate order: A comparison of physician and patient preferences and decision-making

1991 • 89 citations

Decision-Making Ability and Advance Directive Preferences in Nursing Home Patients and Proxies

1989 • 87 citations

Utilization of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes in a Group of Chronically Ill, Elderly Patients in a Community Hospital

1989 • 82 citations

Research with Alzheimer's Disease Subjects: Informed Consent and Proxy Decision Making

1992 • 75 citations

Nursing Home Resident Participation in Medical Decisions: Perceptions and Preferences1

1988 • 65 citations

Factors Influencing Physicians in Recommending In-Hospital Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

1993 • 64 citations

Quality of Life in Elderly, Chronically Ill Outpatients

1991 • 62 citations

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation: How Useful?

1992 • 59 citations

Nurses' and Physicians' Attitudes Toward Tube‐Feeding Decisions in Long‐Term Care

1986 • 57 citations

The Use of Nasogastric Feeding Tubes in Nursing Homes: Patient, Family and Health Care Provider Perspectives

1990 • 57 citations

Medical Decision-Making Among Elderly People in Long Term Care1

1988 • 56 citations

Decisions about Enteral Tube Feeding among the Elderly

1993 • 56 citations

Impact of patient incompetence on decisions to use or withhold life-sustaining treatment

1994 • 53 citations

Surrogate Decision-Maker Preferences for Medical Care of Severely Demented Nursing Home Patients

1992 • 46 citations

Scales for the Assessment of Alzheimer's Disease

1991 • 37 citations

The Utilization of the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care among Hospitalized Elderly Patients

1991 • 33 citations

Discussions about Limiting Treatment in a Geriatric Clinic

1993 • 18 citations

Incompetent Patients with Limited Care in the Absence of Family Consent

1988 • 16 citations

Medicare. New directions in quality assurance

1993 • 5 citations

Advance directives among patients in a house call program.

1992 • 5 citations