PMID: 9180667Jun 1, 1997Paper

How older patient preferences are influenced by consideration of future health outcomes

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
D J Mazur

Abstract

To determine patients' willingness to accept intubation and ventilatory support (IVS) when the best outcome available is a state involving both cognitive and physical/behavioral deficits. Structured interviews with patients seen consecutively in a continuity care general medicine clinic. A university-based Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center. A total of 113 patients (mean age = 67.3 years, age range 42-89; mean level of formal education = 12.6 years, range 2-24). Patients were asked to consider whether they would permit their physicians to intubate them and put them on ventilatory support when the best outcome to be expected was one of three future health care states, presented in the following order: State 1, where their mental and physical state of recovery would be exactly like their current mental and physical states at the time of their visit to the general medicine clinic (the patient's current baseline mental and physical functioning); State 2, involving cognitive compromise; State 3, involving both cognitive and physical/behavioral compromise. One patient refused IVS on State 1; 20.4% (23/113) of patients refused IVS on State 2; 23.0% (26/113) refused IVS on State 3; and 49.6% (56/113) reported they would acce...Continue Reading

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