Physician perspectives and compliance with patient advance directives: The role external factors play on physician decision making

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Advance Directives 100%
• Patient Compliance 72%
• Decision Making 61%
• Physicians 46%
• Patient Preference 35%
• Advance Directive Adherence 22%
• Patient Self-Determination Act 19%
• Health Care Costs 19%
• Living Wills 16%
• Continuing Medical Education 14%
• Delivery of Health Care 12%
• Terminal Care 12%
• Medicaid 11%
• Ventricular Fibrillation 11%
• Patient Rights 11%
• Medicare 10%
• Resuscitation 10%
• Hand 8%
• Aptitude 7%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 6%
• Therapeutics 1%

Social Sciences

• advance directive 98%
• physician 56%
• decision making 46%
• costs 17%
• Living wills 15%
• health care 15%
• rights of patients 14%
• self-determination 9%
• liability 9%
• decision maker 9%
• peace 8%
• scenario 7%
• funding 7%
• act 7%
• interpretation 6%
• trend 5%
• education 3%