Advance Directives

Law and Policy

1.	Advance Directives: Living Wills and Health Care P American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZXZ0F587C&sub_...




2.	Advance Care Planning: Guidance for Proxies American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZ97SFDZLC&sub_...

National Institutes of Health

1.	Advance Directives National Cancer Institute http://cis.nci.nih.gov/fact/8_12.htm

Organizations

1.	National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization http://www.nhpco.org/

Overviews

1.	Decisions About End-of-Life Care American Medical Association http://www.medem.com/MedLB/article_detaillb.cfm?article_ID=ZZZJBYM94GC&sub_...




2.	Advance Directives: Make Your Medical Care Wishes Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research http://www.mayoclinic.com/invoke.cfm?id=HA00014




3.	Advance Care Planning: Medical Care at the End of American Academy of Family Physicians http://www.aafp.org/afp/990201ap/990201b.html

Related Issues

1.	Communicating Your End-of-Life Wishes National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization http://www.nhpco.org/files/public/NHF_brochure_Pink_Communicating.pdf

Research

1.	Advance Directives Found Key to Reducing Stress fo National Institute of Nursing Research http://www.nih.gov/news/pr/mar2001/ninr-15.htm




2.	Do Living Wills Affect the Setting Where People Di American College of Physicians http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/141/2/I-40




3.	Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality http://www.ahrq.gov/research/endliferia/endria.htm

Specific Conditions

1.	Insurance, Legal Issues and Advance Directives American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=11084