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The Challenges of Teaching and Learning About Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in the Nursing Home
Steven Zweig, MD, MSPH
Arch Fam Med. 1996;5(4):213-214.
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SINCE THE Cruzan decision in 1991,1 public interest in living wills and advance directives has exploded. The concept of the living will was developed as a personal statement of values regarding medical decision making near the time of death. However, restricted language in state statutes, ambiguity around the definitions of terms, and determining when living wills should be implemented have all limited the value of this strategy. Subsequently, more broadly conceived advance care directives have been used to describe patient preferences in a variety of scenarios. The Patient Self-Determination Act,2 implemented in 1991, mandates that all health care facilities ask their patients if they have an advance directive or if they want more information about advance directives. The most commonly addressed potential intervention in both the hospital and nursing home settings is cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). Patients or their surrogates are asked if the patient would want CPR if
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Author Affiliations
Department of Family and Community Medicine School of Medicine University of Missouri—Columbia
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