AL Back, JI Wallace, HE Starks, RA Pearlman - JAMA, 1996 - Am Med Assoc OBJECTIVES: To estimate how often physicians receive requests for physician-assisted suicide
and euthanasia and to describe a case series of patient requests for physician-assisted suicide
and euthanasia, including physician responses to these requests. DESIGN: A mailed, ... Cited by 253 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►msmidia.com [PDF] EJ Emanuel, DL Fairclough, J Slutsman, H … - The New England …, 1999 - nejm.highwire.org Results Of the 988 terminally ill patients, 59.4 percent were over the age of 65 years, and 51.5
percent were women. The most frequent terminal illness was cancer (in 51.8 percent of the
patients), followed by heart disease (18.0 percent) and chronic obstructive pulmonary ... Cited by 231 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
EJ Emanuel - Jama, 1996 - Am Med Assoc Medical care at the end of life consumes 10% to 12% of the total health care budget and 27%
of the Medicare budget. Many people claim that increased use of hospice and advance directives
and lower use of high-technology interventions for terminally ill patients will produce ... Cited by 196 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►annals.org RB Hakim, JM Teno, FE Harrell Jr, WA … - Annals of internal …, 1996 - Am Coll Physicians Background: Medical treatment decisions should be based on the preferences of informed patients
or their proxies and on the expected outcomes of treatment. Because seriously ill patients are
at risk for cardiac arrest, examination of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) practices affecting them ... Cited by 162 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►ahajournals.org HM Krumholz, RS Phillips, MB Hamel, JM Teno, P … - Circulation, 1998 - Am Heart Assoc From the Section of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine and the Section of Chronic
Disease Epidemiology, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale School of Medicine
and the Yale-New Haven Hospital Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, New ... Cited by 158 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►annals.org LC Hanson, JA Tulsky, M Danis - Annals of internal medicine, 1997 - Am Coll Physicians Add to CiteULike Add to Complore Add to Connotea Add to Del.icio.us Add to Digg Add to Facebook
Add to Reddit Add to Technorati Add to Twitter What's this? ... Can Clinical Interventions Change
Care at the End of Life? ... Purpose: To review clinical interventions designed to change ... Cited by 147 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
- ►chestpubs.org ML Campbell, JA Guzman - Chest, 2003 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Study objectives: To assess the impact of a proactive case finding approach to end-of-life care
for critically ill patients experiencing global cerebral ischemia (GCI) after cardiopulmonary resuscitation
and multiple organ system failure (MOSF) in comparison to historical control subjects. Cited by 126 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
M Danis, E Mutran, JM Garrett, SC Stearns, RT … - Critical care …, 1996 - journals.lww.com Objectives: Ethicists advise that life-sustaining treatment decisions should be made in keeping
with patient preferences. Until recently, there has been little systematic study of the impact of
patient preferences on the use of various life-sustaining treatments or the consequent ... Cited by 102 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
JR Curtis, MD Wenrich, JD Carline, SE Shannon, … - Chest, 2002 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Objectives: Patients' views of physician skill in providing end-of-life care may vary across different
diseases, and understanding these differences will help physicians improve the quality of care
they provide for patients at the end of life. The objective of this study was to examine the ... Cited by 104 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
