ho received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance contributive to the fact that the physician or family member believed that the patient was incompetent to sign a living will?
3. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance contributed to by the fact that the patient's values conflicted with the values of the family member or physician?
4. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the fact that treatment was viewed by the family member of physician as life-saving and not merely life-prolongation.
5. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the family member or doctor's uncertainty regarding what to do in this particular situation?
6. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the fact that the family member disagreed with the doctor's assessment that treatment was not life saving but only for the purposes of life prolongation.
7. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the fact that family members or the physician did not really know what the living will specified?
8. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the fact that the family members or physicians felt that such decisions should be made only by a court?
9. For a sample of patients with living wills who received treatment at a hospital emergency room, to what extent was noncompliance due to the fact that the doctor or family members believed that, as written, the requ...