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Peer reviewedDavitt, Joan K.; Kaye, Lenard W. – Social Work, 1996
Examines the policies and procedures that home health care agencies have developed to handle incapacitated patients and life-sustaining treatment decisions. Although most directors, staff, and patients agree that patients know their legal rights, only 67% of agencies reported having existing policies on advance directives, and only 41.5% had…
Descriptors: Adults, Decision Making, Ethics, Health Programs
