PHYSICIAN RELUCTANCE TO DISCUSS ADVANCE DIRECTIVES - AN EMPIRIC INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL BARRIERS
PHYSICIAN RELUCTANCE TO DISCUSS ADVANCE DIRECTIVES - AN EMPIRIC INVESTIGATION OF POTENTIAL BARRIERS
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DOI:
10.1001/archinte.154.20.2311
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发表时间:
1994-10-24
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通讯作者:
GLICKMAN, DF
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作者:
MORRISON, RS;MORRISON, EW;GLICKMAN, DF
Background: To determine the relative impact of five proposed barriers to physician usage of advance directives with the aim of increasing the number of advance directives generated.Methods: Questionnaires were sent to 460 internal medicine resident and attending physicians at a large New York, NY, hospital. Of these, 277 (60%) responded. We used multiple regression to measure the impact of five barriers to physician-initiated discussions of advance directives (time constraints, compensation concerns, discomfort with the subject, beliefs about appropriateness, and lack of understanding) on respondents' estimates of the number of advance directives held by respondents' patients, the number of recent advance directive discussions, and the number of discussions initiated by physicians.Results: Physician lack of understanding and erroneous beliefs about appropriateness had particularly strong effects, serving as barriers to recent advance directive discussions (P