Advance Care Planning: Raising End-of-Life Issues
A Comminication Pocket Guide for Physicians
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Developed for physicians and health care workers who need to discuss end-of-life issues with patients and families, this guide suggests constructive ways to initiate ethical conversations about life-sustaining treatments. Five stages are covered: when patients are healthy, when they become chronically ill, when acute illness occurs, when terminal illness is diagnosed, and after brain death occurs.
The convenient pocket-size guide serves as a valuable tool for health care workers who are sensitive to patients' concerns and want to convey the right message.
What others have said...
"By providing this guide to our physicians and other clinicians, I am confident that discussions about end-of-life care are far more likely to be complete and ethically sensitive."
- Richard R. Risk, CEO, Advocate Health Care, Chicago, IL
"As a teaching tool, Advance Care Planning: Raising End of Life Issues deserves a place in the coat pocket of every intern and resident. As a just-in-time tool for organizing one's thoughts in preparation for difficult, poignant discussions with patients and their families, it will earn a place in the top desk drawer of busy physicians. I keep one in mine."
- Ira Byock, MD, Director, The Palliative Care Service, Missoula, MT |
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Advance Care Planning: Raising End-of-Life Issues: A Comminication Pocket Guide for Physicians
Publisher: Park Ridge Center, Chicago
Date: March, 2001.
ISBN: 0-945482-05-1
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