Attitudes toward advance directives and the impact of prognostic information on the preference for cardiopulmonary resuscitation in medical inpatients in Chiang Mai University Hospital, Thailand

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Sudarat Sittisombut, Edgar J. Love, Chitr Sitthi-Amorn
• التنسيق: دورية
• منشور في: 2018
• الموضوعات: Nursing
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=33644813556&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/62452

Our previous study revealed that cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was performed in 65.7% of 411 terminally ill patients who died in a tertiary-care university hospital in northern Thailand. Advance directives (ADs) are needed to ensure that life-sustaining therapies are used more appropriately. T...