DNR in Nursing Homes: The U.K. and N.Y.

The US and the UK

“…I could not read the correspondence between Stewart et al 1 and Gambert et al 2 in the February issue of the Journal without more than a bit of wistful Anglophilia. Why can't we Americans come to terms with the inevitability of death as the prescribed end of life?…”

CPR in Nursing Home Patients: British and American Approaches

“…Just as the British constitution remains unwritten, the hospitals have not felt the need for written policies for these day‐to‐day medical matters. The British system continues to allow physicians to make CPR and DNR decisions in a less formal manner than in the US 8 . Clinical freedom, especially necessary for the delivery of excellent medical care for the elderly, has been vigorously safeguarded by the important professional bodies such as the Royal Colleges, British Medical Association, and the British Geriatrics Society.…”