Validation of Preferences for Life-Sustaining Treatment: Implications for Advance Care Planning
Generate an AI Snapshot to get a quick, structured summary of this paper.
A concise AI-generated summary of the paper will appear here once you click Generate AI Snapshot.
TL;DR
The convergent validity of prospective treatment preferences was evaluated by comparing them with patient ratings of health states as worse than death or better than death and the stability of concordance over time and participants' reasons for discordant preferences were examined.
Abstract
Prospective life-sustaining treatment preferences show high convergent validity. For most persons, treatment preferences are grounded in a consistent belief system. Concordance and discordance between treatment preferences and health state ratings offer clinicians the opportunity to explore patients' values and reasoning.