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<\/span><\/strong>Despite a push by advocates for advance care planning, most Americans do not have a living will or other advance health care directive in place. This includes even many patients with serious health conditions, who should be considering end-of-life decisions such as whether they want to be resuscitated or intubated, and who is designated to make decisions about their care if they are incapacitated.<\/p>\n Much of the push has been directed toward encouraging people, especially those advanced in age or facing a serious illness, to discuss end-of-life decisions with their loved ones. Recently a team at the University of California, San Francisco found success with a new approach: offering doctors incentives for documenting their patients’ advance care decisions.<\/p>\n The research team came up with a simple form for doctors to use, asking patients whether they had preferences regarding end-of-life care, whether those preferences were recorded anywhere, such as in a living will, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Despite a push by advocates for advance care planning, most Americans do not have a living will or other advance health care directive in place. This includes even many patients with serious health conditions, who should be considering end-of-life decisions…<\/span><\/p>\n