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A controlled trial to improve care for seriously ill hospitalized patients. The study to understand prognoses and preferences for outcomes and risks of treatments (SUPPORT). The SUPPORT Principal Investigators

1995 • 2,794 citations

A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously III Hospitalized Patients

1995 • 2,163 citations

Practice parameter: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (an evidence-based review) [RETIRED]

1999 • 585 citations

Systematic Implementation of an Advance Directive Program in Nursing Homes

2000 • 512 citations

Effectiveness of Computer-Generated Reminders for Increasing Discussions about Advance Directives and Completion of Advance Directive Forms

1998 • 192 citations

Patient knowledge and physician predictions of treatment preferences after discussion of advance directives

1998 • 176 citations

Capacity to make health care decisions: its importance in clinical practice

1999 • 141 citations

The quality of patient-doctor communication about end-of-life care: a study of patients with advanced AIDS and their primary care clinicians

1999 • 129 citations

Role of written advance directives in decision making

1998 • 128 citations

End-of-life care

1999 • 125 citations

End-of-Life Decisions and Advance Directives in Palliative Care

1998 • 125 citations

Withholding and withdrawing dialysis: The role of physician specialty and education and patient functional status

1998 • 117 citations

Advance Directives Are More Likely Among Seniors Asked About End-of-Life Care Preferences

1999 • 108 citations

Failure of advance care planning to elicit patients' preferences for withdrawal from dialysis

1999 • 106 citations

More talk, less paper: Predicting the accuracy of substituted judgments

1994 • 104 citations

Intubation and Mechanical Ventilation for COPD

1999 • 102 citations

Dialysis Patients' Preferences for Family-Based Advance Care Planning

1999 • 101 citations

Dissociation between the Wishes of Terminally Ill Parents and Decisions by Their Offspring

1993 • 91 citations

Projecting Patients' Preferences from Living Wills: An Invalid Strategy for Management of Dementia with Life‐Threatening Illness

1994 • 85 citations

Assessment of competence to complete advance directives: validation of a patient centred approach

1999 • 83 citations

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

1996 • 78 citations

Advance Directives and Withdrawal of Dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan

1996 • 77 citations

Strategies to promote the use of advance directives in a residency outpatient practice

1996 • 70 citations

Practical methods to increase use of advance medical directives

1999 • 62 citations

Decision‐Making Capacity to Execute A Health Care Proxy: Development and Testing of Guidelines

2000 • 62 citations

Why is it difficult for staff to discuss advance directives with chronic dialysis patients?

1996 • 61 citations

Competency and Consent in Dementia

1998 • 51 citations

The completion of advance directives in primary care.

1996 • 49 citations

Durable power of attorney and informed consent with Alzheimer's disease patients: a clinical study

1997 • 49 citations

Overriding a Patient's Refusal of Treatment after an Iatrogenic Complication

1997 • 48 citations

Promoting Inpatient Directives About Life-Sustaining Treatments in a Community Hospital

1995 • 47 citations

Can Goals of Care Be Used to Predict Intervention Preferences in an Advance Directive?

1997 • 46 citations

Enhancement of Proxy Appointment for Older Persons: Physician Counselling in the Ambulatory Setting

1996 • 45 citations

Advance Directives: Can Patients?? Stated Treatment Choices Be Used to Infer Unstated Choices?

1994 • 45 citations

Use of Advance Directives: Facilitating Health Care Decisions by Adults With Mental Retardation and Their Families

1998 • 32 citations

Advance Directives Affecting Medical Treatment Choices

1997 • 30 citations

Patient Self-Determination and the Artificial Prolongation of Life

1994 • 29 citations

Comparing utilization of life-sustaining treatments with patient and public preferences

1998 • 27 citations

Advance directives in the intensive care unit of a tertiary cancer center

1995 • 26 citations

Ethical Research with the Developmentally Disabled

1997 • 21 citations

Roles of Physicians, Attorneys, and Illness Experience in Advance Directives

1999 • 20 citations

Psychometric Analysis of an Advance Directive

1996 • 15 citations

Advance Directives in End-Stage Renal Disease Inherently Involve Family and Staff

1998 • 13 citations

Iowa nurses' knowledge of living wills and perceptions of patient autonomy

1996 • 12 citations

Use of Advance Directives by Health Care Workers and Their Families

1999 • 10 citations

Advance Directives, Competency Evaluation, and Surrogate Management in Elderly Patients

1998 • 7 citations

Acting on a living will: a physician's dilemma.

1996 • 6 citations

Learning from the Cruzan decision: the need for advance directives

1991 • 2 citations

Proactive neurology for the present and future

1986 • 1 citations