Opening the Black Box: How Do Physicians Communicate about Advance Directives?

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

Medical Futility: Its Meaning and Ethical Implications

1990 • 1,172 citations

The Role of Numeracy in Understanding the Benefit of Screening Mammography

1997 • 1,076 citations

Advance Directives for Medical Care — A Case for Greater Use

1991 • 786 citations

Informed Consent: Legal Theory and Clinical Practice

1987 • 751 citations

The Influence of the Probability of Survival on Patients' Preferences Regarding Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

1994 • 573 citations

OMNIBUS BUDGET RECONCILIATION ACT

1987 • 512 citations

A Prospective Study of Advance Directives for Life-Sustaining Care

1991 • 493 citations

Review of report: Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment (President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, Washington, D.C., March, 1983).

1984 • 441 citations

Advance Directives for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients: Effectiveness with the Patient Self‐Determination Act and the SUPPORT Intervention

1997 • 433 citations

Do Advance Directives Provide Instructions That Direct Care?

1997 • 352 citations

Death and End-of-Life Planning in One Midwestern Community

1998 • 350 citations

How Doctors and Patients Discuss Routine Clinical Decisions Informed Decision Making in the Outpatient Setting

1997 • 330 citations

The Medical Directive

1989 • 329 citations

Western Bioethics on the Navajo Reservation

1995 • 314 citations

How Strictly Do Dialysis Patients Want Their Advance Directives Followed?

1992 • 306 citations

How Medical Professionals Evaluate Expressions of Probability

1986 • 276 citations

Resolving Ethical Dilemmas: A Guide for Clinicians

1995 • 269 citations

Effects of Offering Advance Directives on Medical Treatments and Costs

1992 • 264 citations

How do medical residents discuss resuscitation with patients?

1995 • 255 citations

Guidelines on the Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and the Care of the Dying

1988 • 252 citations

Stability of Choices about Life-Sustaining Treatments

1994 • 242 citations

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

1991 • 217 citations

Decisions near the end of life.

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Can Clinical Interventions Change Care at the End of Life?

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Medical Futility: Response to Critiques

1996 • 184 citations

Numbers are better than words

1983 • 164 citations

The inaccessibility of advance directives on transfer from ambulatory to acute care settings.

1995 • 162 citations

Advance Care Planning as a Process: Structuring the Discussions in Practice

1995 • 160 citations

The values history. The evaluation of the patient's values and advance directives.

1991 • 156 citations

See one, do one, teach one? House staff experience discussing do-not-resuscitate orders

1996 • 141 citations

The Illusion of End-of-Life Resource Savings with Advance Directives

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Quality of life and resuscitation decisions in elderly patients

1986 • 112 citations

Patients’ interpretations of probability terms

1991 • 92 citations

The Erosion of Autonomy in Long-Term Care.

1994 • 88 citations

Marked Improvement in Recognition and Completion of Health Care Proxies

1996 • 63 citations

How the Manner of Presentation of Data Influences Older Patients in Determining Their Treatment Preferences

1993 • 62 citations

Achieving consensus on withdrawing or withholding care for critically Ill patients

1992 • 59 citations

Do not resuscitate decisions: discussions with patients.

1989 • 57 citations

Families' Roles in Advance Directives

1994 • 57 citations

Limitation of Medical Care: An Ethnographic Analysis

1993 • 44 citations

Verbal and numerical estimates of probability in therapeutic contexts

1979 • 41 citations

Treatment Preferences of Patients and Physicians

1990 • 37 citations

The Green Eggs and Ham Phenomena

1994 • 37 citations

Discussing Life-Sustaining Treatment

1991 • 36 citations

Do-not-resuscitate discussions: a qualitative analysis.

1992 • 28 citations

Advance-Treatment Planning Discussions with Nursing Home Residents: Pilot Experience with Simulated Interviews

1990 • 25 citations

How do doctors discuss do-not-resuscitate orders?

1985 • 21 citations

Trust, autonomy, and advance directives

1989 • 13 citations

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