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| Title |
Physician perspectives and compliance with patient advance directives: the role external factors play on physician decision making
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, November 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-13-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Christopher M Burkle, Paul S Mueller, Keith M Swetz, C Christopher Hook, Mark T Keegan |
| Abstract |
Following passage of the Patient Self Determination Act in 1990, health care institutions that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding are required to inform patients of their right to make their health care preferences known through execution of a living will and/or to appoint a surrogate-decision maker. We evaluated the impact of external factors and perceived patient preferences on physicians' decisions to honor or forgo previously established advance directives (ADs). In addition, physician views regarding legal risk, patients' ability to comprehend complexities involved with their care, and impact of medical costs related to end-of-life care decisions were explored. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 126 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 2 | 2% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Argentina | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 122 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 25 | 20% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 11% |
| Researcher | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 29 | 23% |
| Unknown | 25 | 20% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 42 | 33% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 20 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 9 | 7% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 16 | 13% |
| Unknown | 29 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 November 2012.
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#13,675,566
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Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#716
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#159,429
of 275,937 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#8
of 11 outputs
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