Why Do Advance Care Planning
☛  A study of families who faced end of life decisions on hospitalized loved ones conducted by the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and NIH found that:
☛  In the absence of advance directives from the patient, families found this the most stressful of life events
☛  In the absence of advance directives families were more likely to insist on futile treatment, even when the patient was suffering
☛  When an advance directive was present, the family was more able to focus on the patient’s quality of life and to allow a switch to comfort care strategies
https://web.archive.org/web/20200908001927/http://www.tagstarrant.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-Fall-Ethics-Conf-Handout.pdf


https://www.tagstarrant.org/wp-content/uploads/2012-Fall-Ethics-Conf-Handout.pdf