Do You Have an Advance Directive? | |
A study recently released by the National Center for Health Care Statistics (NCHS) estimated that only 5-15 percent of adults in the U.S. have completed advance directives. An advance directive (AD) allows a patient to communicate healthcare preferences if he or she can no longer make these decisions. ADs include living wills, treatment directives and do-not-resuscitate orders… [259 word article, April 2011] |