Two 1987 New Jersey Supreme Court rulings,

This study examined in detail patient and public attitudes toward advance directives. A group of primary care outpatients and a sample of the Boston general public were interviewed to answer questions about interest ...

It is possible that success in increasing the use of advance-care directives could best be achieved by focussing our interventions on the "planners."

There are two prominent trends in health care today: first, increasing demands for accountability, and second, increasing provision of care through managed care organizations. These trends promote the question: What form ...

CONTEXT: Despite intense debates about legalization, there are few data examining the details of actual euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (PAS) cases in the United States. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the practices ...