Advance directives. Hospitals learn how to apply PSDA via research and education

The Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) published its final interim rule covering the Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) in the March 6 Federal Register, more than two months after the law went into effect. The following articles summarize the AHA's response to the interim rule, how a children's hospital applies the PSDA, some research on how aging parents relinquish decision making to their adult children, how Minnesota applies the PSDA to the mentally ill, and how one hospital conducted an educational program on advance directives.