Systematic Implementation of an Advance Directive Program in Nursing Homes

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

Users' Guides to the Medical Literature

1993 • 943 citations

Reliability of a standardized Mini-Mental State Examination compared with the traditional Mini-Mental State Examination

1991 • 479 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

Effects of Offering Advance Directives on Medical Treatments and Costs

1992 • 264 citations

Cost Savings at the End of Life

1996 • 243 citations

Frailty and Hospitalization of Long‐Term Stay Nursing Home Residents

1997 • 198 citations

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

1998 • 192 citations

Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Receiving Long-term Mechanical Ventilation

1996 • 174 citations

Advance Directives and the Elderly: A Study of Intervention Strategies to Increase Use

1993 • 166 citations

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

1995 • 162 citations

Empowerment of the Older Patient? A Randomized, Controlled Trial To Increase Discussion and Use of Advance Directives

1992 • 149 citations

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

1997 • 135 citations

Analysis of data arising from a stratified design with the cluster as unit of randomization

1987 • 132 citations

Will outpatients complete living wills?

1991 • 126 citations

Increasing the completion of the durable power of attorney for health care. A randomized, controlled trial.

1994 • 107 citations

Variability in physicians' decisions on caring for chronically ill elderly patients: an international study.

1991 • 87 citations

Measuring Capacity to Complete an Advance Directive

1996 • 81 citations

A Method for Increasing Elders' Use of Advance Directives

1994 • 73 citations

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

1996 • 70 citations

Increasing the use of advance directives in medical outpatients

1997 • 67 citations

Marked Improvement in Recognition and Completion of Health Care Proxies

1996 • 63 citations

Measuring patient and relative satisfaction with level or aggressiveness of care and involvement in care decisions in the context of life threatening illness

1995 • 60 citations

Chronic in-center hemodialysis patients' attitudes, knowledge, and behavior towards advance directives.

1993 • 53 citations

Canadian outpatients and advance directives: poor knowledge and little experience but positive attitudes.

1993 • 50 citations

Promoting Completion of Health Care Proxies Following Hospitalization

1995 • 45 citations

Advance Directives on Hospital Admission

1993 • 45 citations

Prevalence of advance directives and do-not-resuscitate orders in community nursing facilities

1994 • 42 citations

Advance directives: the views of health care professionals.

1993 • 41 citations

Let ME Decide

1992 • 41 citations

Promoting the use of advance directives. An empirical study

1995 • 37 citations

Patients' understanding and use of advance directives.

1994 • 36 citations

Continuity of Do‐Not Resuscitate Orders Between Hospital And Nursing Home Settings

1997 • 32 citations

Implementation of Advance Directives Among Community-Dwelling Veterans

2000 • 31 citations

Advance Directives and Opportunities for Nurses

1996 • 30 citations

Provisional Educational Needs of Health Care Providers in Palliative Care in Three Nursing Homes in Ontario

1997 • 29 citations

Effects of the Patient Self-Determination Act on patient knowledge and behavior.

1993 • 25 citations

Systematic implementation of an advance health care directive in the community.

1997 • 21 citations

Physicians' Decision-Making in Incompetent Elderly Patients: A Comparative Study Between Austria, Germany (East, West), and Sweden

1999 • 18 citations

Two years experience with a comprehensive health care directive in a home for the aged.

1992 • 17 citations

Institutional Efforts to Promote Advance Care Planning in Nursing Homes: Challenges and Opportunities

1997 • 14 citations

Catalysts for Conversations About Advance Directives: The Influence of Physician And Patient Characteristics

1994 • 12 citations

The Canadian experience with advance treatment directives.

1993 • 12 citations

Should People Do unto Others as They Would Not Want Done unto Themselves?

1995 • 11 citations

The Right to Die with Dignity

2001 • 10 citations

Obtaining a durable power of attorney for health care from nursing home residents.

1993 • 9 citations

Health Care Providers' and Cancer Patients' Preferences Regarding Disclosure of Information About Advance Directives

1993 • 6 citations

[Hospital admission of nursing home patients: patient characteristics and purpose of admission].

1994 • 6 citations