CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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To examine the attitudes toward, the experience with and the knowledge of advance directives of family physicians in Ontario. ⋯ Family physicians favour advance directives but use them infrequently. Most physicians support offering them to terminally or chronically ill patients but not to all patients at the time of admission to hospital. Although governments emphasize legislation, most physicians believe that public and professional education programs would be at least as likely as legislation to encourage them to offer advance directives to their patients.