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Living Wills and Advanced Directives

Living Wills and Advanced Directives have been studied in various contexts. For example, factors that facilitate or hinder the patient's decision to complete a living will have been extensively examined (VandeCreek & Frankowski, 1996). Also, both the public and medical personnel's beliefs and opinions regarding living wills/advanced directives have been extensively researched (Singer, Choudhry & Armstrong, 1993; Waddell, Clarnette, Smith, Oldham & Kellehear, 1996).

However, what has not been much researched is the factors or variables that operate to stop compliance with a patient's requests as stated in his/her living will (Cohen, McCue, Germain & Woods, 1997). In other words, every day people are being brought to emergency rooms even though they have written requests to allow them to die in peace. Moreover, every day physicians are performing procedures on patients with living wills which request that these procedures not be performed. Clearly, if the medical and legal establishment has the intent of complying with requests stated in living wills, what is needed is a study that attempts to identify those factors that are fostering non-compliance.

The research problem of the proposed research focuses on determining those factors that contribute to noncompliance with the requests and provisions stated in a patient's living will. Several possible reasons are examined, each of which has been culled from the existing research on noncompliance with living wills (see "Review of Related Literature" section of the proposal).

The study's research problem can be recharacterized as an attempt to answer the following research questions:

1. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance contributive to the fact that the physician or family member did not know the patient had a living will?

2. For a sample of patients with living wills w...

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