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Achieving Compassionate, Competent, Cost-effective Care

Joan M. Teno, MD, MS

JAMA. 2000;283:1481-1482.

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Having an advance directive, a living will, and a durable power of attorney¹ has been proposed as means for a competent person to legally assert his or her autonomy before he or she becomes unable to make decisions. Whether promoting the completion of an advance directive saves resources otherwise squandered on care not wanted by the dying patient remains a tantalizing question.^2-3 Medicine and society are now faced with an aging population that is slowly dying of chronic ailments and the question of whether too much is spent on the dying. Such concerns have been fueled by the statistic that 28% of Medicare program expenditures were accounted for by 6% of persons who died during that year.⁴

The key, policy-relevant hypothesis behind advance directives proposes that if an intervention enhances a person's right to choose, dying persons will not opt for technological (and costly) medical . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Author Affiliation: Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, Brown University, Providence, RI.

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