Emphasizing patient participation: the key to determining appropriate end-of-life care?
Traditional approaches to end-of-life care have been criticized for both their high cost and their assumption that the physicians knows what is best for the patient. Both fiscal and ethical concerns can be addressed by increased patient participation in treatment choices during end-of-life care.
Grogan
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Yale University, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, New Haven, CT, USA.
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D016223:Advance Directives; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D006801:Humans; D010358:Patient Participation; D011050:Policy Making; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D013727:Terminal Care; D014481:United States