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| Title |
The near-failure of advance directives: why they should not be abandoned altogether, but their role radically reconsidered
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| Published in |
Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, May 2016
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| DOI | 10.1007/s11019-016-9704-7 |
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| Authors |
Marta Spranzi, Véronique Fournier |
| Abstract |
Advance directives (ADs) have been hailed for two decades as the best way to safeguard patients' autonomy when they are totally or partially incompetent. In many national contexts they are written into law and they are mostly associated with end-of-life decisions. Although advocates and critics of ADs exchange relevant empirical and theoretical arguments, the debate is inconclusive. We argue that this is so for good reasons: the ADs' project is fraught with tensions, and this is the reason why they are both important and deeply problematic. We outline six such tensions, and conclude with some positive suggestions about how to better promote patients' autonomy in end-of-life decision. We argue that ADs should continue to be an option but they cannot be the panacea that they are expected to be. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 50% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 50% |
| Members of the public | 1 | 50% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 32 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 5 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 16% |
| Researcher | 4 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 9% |
| Other | 7 | 22% |
| Unknown | 3 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 41% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 19% |
| Social Sciences | 4 | 13% |
| Arts and Humanities | 2 | 6% |
| Psychology | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 5 | 16% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 1. 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 31 May 2016.
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#378
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#6
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