Abstract
There is general agreement across health care disciplines that advance care planning (ACP) and advanced directives (ADs) can help ensure a patient receives desired end-of-life care. However, ADs and ACP remain significantly underused. The evolution of ADs and ACP in the United States has influenced development of ADs and ACP in other countries. This entry traces the development and history of ADs and ACP in the United States, identifies reasons they are not more widely used, discusses ethical considerations, and concludes with multicultural considerations.
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Portions of this entry have been adapted from the author’s doctoral dissertation (McCune 2014) and reprinted here with the author’s permission.
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McCune, S.L. (2016). Advance Care Planning. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_9
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