Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals

INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of use of any advance directives was 26% in 112 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit (CCU)/intensive care unit (ICU) in an academic medical center. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We investigated in 2 community hospitals the prevalence of use of advance directives (AD), he...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Anil, Aronow, Wilbert S., Alexa, Margelusa, Gothwal, Ritu, Jesmajian, Stephen, Bhushan, Bharat, Gaba, Praveen, Catevenis, James
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22371745
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13892
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author Kumar, Anil
Aronow, Wilbert S.
Alexa, Margelusa
Gothwal, Ritu
Jesmajian, Stephen
Bhushan, Bharat
Gaba, Praveen
Catevenis, James
author_facet Kumar, Anil
Aronow, Wilbert S.
Alexa, Margelusa
Gothwal, Ritu
Jesmajian, Stephen
Bhushan, Bharat
Gaba, Praveen
Catevenis, James
author_sort Kumar, Anil
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description INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of use of any advance directives was 26% in 112 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit (CCU)/intensive care unit (ICU) in an academic medical center. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We investigated in 2 community hospitals the prevalence of use of advance directives (AD), health care proxy (HCP), legal guardian (LG), and living will (LW) in 512 patients hospitalized in a CCU/ ICU approached for AD and HCP. RESULTS: The use of AD was 22%, of HCP was 19%, of LG was 16%, and of LW was 5%. CONCLUSIONS: The use of AD was 22%, of HCP was 19%, of LG was 16%, and of LW was 5% in patients hospitalized in a CCU/ICU. Educational programs on use of AD and of HCP need to be part of cardiovascular training programs and of cardiovascular continuing medical education.
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spelling pubmed-32813382012-02-27 Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals Kumar, Anil Aronow, Wilbert S. Alexa, Margelusa Gothwal, Ritu Jesmajian, Stephen Bhushan, Bharat Gaba, Praveen Catevenis, James Arch Med Sci Original Research INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of use of any advance directives was 26% in 112 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit (CCU)/intensive care unit (ICU) in an academic medical center. MATERIAL AND METHODS: We investigated in 2 community hospitals the prevalence of use of advance directives (AD), health care proxy (HCP), legal guardian (LG), and living will (LW) in 512 patients hospitalized in a CCU/ ICU approached for AD and HCP. RESULTS: The use of AD was 22%, of HCP was 19%, of LG was 16%, and of LW was 5%. CONCLUSIONS: The use of AD was 22%, of HCP was 19%, of LG was 16%, and of LW was 5% in patients hospitalized in a CCU/ICU. Educational programs on use of AD and of HCP need to be part of cardiovascular training programs and of cardiovascular continuing medical education. Termedia Publishing House 2010-04-30 2010-04-30 /pmc/articles/PMC3281338/ /pubmed/22371745 http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13892 Text en Copyright © 2010 Termedia & Banach http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Original Research
Kumar, Anil
Aronow, Wilbert S.
Alexa, Margelusa
Gothwal, Ritu
Jesmajian, Stephen
Bhushan, Bharat
Gaba, Praveen
Catevenis, James
Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title_full Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title_fullStr Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title_short Prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
title_sort prevalence of use of advance directives, health care proxy, legal guardian, and living will in 512 patients hospitalized in a cardiac care unit/intensive care unit in 2 community hospitals
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3281338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22371745
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/aoms.2010.13892
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