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Advance care directives: Citizens, patients, doctors, institutions [PDF]

Journal of Public Health Research, 2019
Italian Law no. 219/2017 established the advance care directives (“Disposizioni anticipate di trattamento” – DAT), a legal document specifying the person’s wishes in relation to health, drawn up in case of the possible future incapacity to make informed ...
Paola Delbon, Simona Cacace, Adelaide Conti   +2 more
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Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background For the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the law pertaining to implementation of advance care directives (ACDs) and substitute decision making. Aims
Jamie Bryant, Amy Waller, Alison Bowman, Robert Pickles, Carolyn Hullick, Emma Price, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Anne Knight, Mary-Ann Ryall, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +10 more
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Documenting plans for care: advance care directives and the 7-step pathway in the acute care context [PDF]

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Advance care planning involves the discussion and documentation of an individual’s values and preferences to guide their future healthcare should they lose capacity to make or communicate treatment decisions.
Gregory Brian Crawford, Katherine Hodgetts, Teresa Burgess, Jaklin Eliott   +3 more
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Exploring the Motivations for Completing Advance Care Directives: A Qualitative Study of Majority/Minority Israeli People Without Dementia [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundCompleting advance directives has been declared an essential instrument for preserving and respecting the autonomy and preferences for end-of-life care of people living with dementia.
Perla Werner, Natalie Ulitsa, Hanan AboJabel   +2 more
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Development and psychometric properties of the general public's attitudes toward advance care directives scale in Portugal [PDF]

Journal of Public Health Research, 2021
Background: To date, no instrument in Portugal has evaluated the attitudes of the population about advance care directives. This paper describes the development and testing of the General Public's Attitudes Toward Advance Care Directives (GPATACD) Scale.
Carlos Laranjeira, Maria dos Anjos Dixe, Luís Gueifão, Lina Caetano, Rui Passadouro, Tiago Gabriel, Ana Querido   +6 more
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One-year survival after critical care as a decision basis for advance care directives in general medicine: Real word data analysis of 149,144 patients. [PDF]

PLoS ONE
Providing counsel on advance care directives is challenging for general practitioners. Counselling is done on unknown future circumstances of possible critical illness and critical care in intensive care units.
Constantin Unger, Felix Werner, Bettina Engel, Thomas Kühlein, Christoph Schulz, Christian Kümpel, Johannes Gorkotte, Susann Hueber   +7 more
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Mapping advance care planning and advance directives in Latin America

BMC Palliative Care
Background/aims The extent to which low- and middle-income countries have implemented Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Advance Directives (AD) remains unclear. We aimed to map the current status of ACP/AD in Latin America.
Natália Rocha Tardelli, Fernanda Bono Fukushima, Jenny T. van der Steen, Manuel Iván Cobas Rodríguez, Rasa Mikelyte, Daniel Neves Forte, Alex Sander Watanabe Palácio, Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Mirna Garcia Burgoa, Douglas Henrique Crispim, Alfredo Rodríguez-Núñez, Luis Ricardo González Cruz, Mariuska Forteza Sáez, Patricia Bonilla Sierra, Ancu Tatiana Feng Escobar, María Elena del Rosario Alcántara Godoy, Tulio Enrique Velásquez Castellanos, Mónica Osio Saldaña, Nisla Camaño Reyes, Miriam Elisa Riveros Ríos, Maria del Rosario Berenguel Cook, Gloria Castillo Pichardo, Carlos Fernando Acuña Aguilar, Gabriela Píriz Alvarez, Ismariel Inés Espín Gonzalez, Leonardo de Andrade Rodrigues Brito, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal   +26 more
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Willingness to develop an advance directive: perspectives of older persons at a national referral hospital in Uganda [PDF]

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Understanding the treatment preferences of terminally ill patients is critical for the provision of quality care at the end of life. However, there is limited literature on the perspectives and willingness to develop advance directives among ...
Catherine Alupo, Erisa S. Mwaka, Betty Kwagala, Joseph Ochieng   +3 more
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Advance directives and cancer: oncology practices in Brazil [PDF]

Revista Bioética, 2023
Data on advance directives in Brazil are lacking. This study aims to assess the understanding of oncologists regarding advance directives and the frequency with which they discuss advance directives and advance care planning with their patients in Brazil.
Eni Devay de Freitas, Rui Nunes
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Advance Care Directives: A Herzl Clinic Quality Improvement Project on Patients' perspectives

McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023
Background: Advance Care Planning (ACP) has benefits for patients and is often optimal when done in the primary care setting. Despite the development of multiple resources and tools to support ACP discussions at our Family Medicine Teaching Clinic, the ...
Fanny Hersson-Edery
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