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Communication about Advance Directives: Are Patients Sharing Information with Physicians?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 December 2009

Suzanne B. Yellen ,
Laurel A. Burton  and
Ellen Elpern
Suzanne B. Yellen
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Sciences and in the Section of Medical Oncology of the Department of Medicine at Rush Medical Center and is the Clinical Director of the Division of Psychosocial Oncology at the Rush Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois
Laurel A. Burton
Affiliation:
Bishop Anderson Professor and Chairman of the Department of Religion and Human Values at Rush Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
Ellen Elpern
Affiliation:
Clinical pulmonary nurse specialist and an Assistant Professor in the Section of Pulmonary Medicine of the Department of Medical Nursing at Rush Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois
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Historically, patients have deferred to physicians′ judgments about appropriate medical care, thereby limiting patient participation in treatment decisions. In this model of medical decision making, physicians typically decided upon the treatment plan. Communication with patients focused on securing their cooperation in accepting a treatment decision that essentially had already been made.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 1 , Issue 4 , Fall 1992 , pp. 377 - 387
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1992

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