ATTITUDES OF NEPHROLOGISTS TOWARDS ADVANC ED DIRECTIVES - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY

Authors
Citation
R. Kielstein, ATTITUDES OF NEPHROLOGISTS TOWARDS ADVANC ED DIRECTIVES - AN INTERNATIONAL STUDY, Nieren- und Hochdruckkrankheiten, 27(4), 1998, pp. 178-183
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Urology & Nephrology
ISSN journal
03005224
Volume
27
Issue
4
Year of publication
1998
Pages
178 - 183
Database
ISI
SICI code
0300-5224(1998)27:4<178:AONTAE>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Attitudes of nephrologists in the US, Japan and the former East- and W est-Germany towards advanced directives of their patients were reviewe d. While advanced directives are nearly absent in Japan (0.07% of ESRD -patients) and nephrologists prefer to discuss clinical decisions with family members rather than with the patient, advanced directives in t he US are legal instruments, widely executed (30% of ESRD-patients) an d mostly authoritative in clinical decision making. In Germany, the pr evalence of advanced directives is still low (0.3% of ESRD-patients); physicians in the former East-Germany seem to be more inclined to hono r advanced directives (78%) than their West-German colleagues (48%).