title: Providing information about advance directives to patients in ambulatory care and their families.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To devise a teaching pamphlet on advance directives.
  
  
  METHODS
  Published articles, professional publications, books.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Content was designed to educate, increase awareness of the topic, and encourage dialogue among caregivers, patients, and families prior to the onset of a health crisis. The tool is written at a fifth-grade reading level.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The booklet can achieve its goals. Dissemination strategies still are under discussion.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Helping patients and their families explore end-of-life decisions is vital to providing comprehensive care for patients with cancer. Tools such as this can facilitate that process.
authors.affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, Philadelphia.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Neumark
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016223:Advance Directives; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D010174:Pamphlets; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*