TY  - JOUR
T1  - GArnering support for advance care planning
AU  - Fried TR, Drickamer M
Y1  - 2010/01/20
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.1956
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 269
EP  - 270
VL  - 303
IS  - 3
N2  - 
As originally presented in America's Affordable Health Choices Act HR 3200, section 1233 entitled Advance Care Planning Consultation described reimbursement for a clinician visit in which a practitioner explained advance care planning, living wills, the role of a health care proxy, and orders regarding life-sustaining treatments.2 This section of the bill was distorted by many politicians and commentators into a mandate by which older and disabled individuals would be forced to forgo life-sustaining treatments. Advance care planning, widely viewed by the medical community as an underused means of improving end-of-life care by allowing patients to exert their fundamental right to self-determination over future events and to ensure that they receive care at the end of life consistent with their values, was thereby transformed into a means for the government to deny individuals the care they desire. How could this have happened?

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.1956
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.1956
ER  -