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BMC Nursing, 2022 Background End-of-life care can be a difficult and challenging process for critical care nurses in intensive care units (ICUs) due to the care plan shifts from providing life-sustaining measures to end-of-life care.
Mu-Hsing Ho +4 more
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The discontinuation of antitumor treatment and the advance directives in cancer patients
Brazilian Journal of Oncology, 2020 Objectives: Advance directives (AD) are one of the main pillars of patients' autonomy and can impact directly the quality of life, dignity and rights of the dying patient.
Pedro Grachinski Buiar +2 more
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Issues in the development of advance directives in mental health care [PDF]
, 2003 <i>Background</i>: Interest in advance directives in mental health care is growing internationally. There is no clear universal agreement as to what such an advance directive is or how it should function.
Atkinson, J.M. +3 more
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Advance directives in the emergency department
Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020 Advance directives are documents to convey patients’ preferences in the event they are unable to communicate them. Patients commonly present to the emergency department near the end of life.
Eileen F. Baker, Catherine A. Marco
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The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives
Frontiers in Digital Health, 2021 Advance directives allow people to declare their treatment preferences for a potential future state of incompetency. Covid-19, with its high numbers of quickly deteriorating patients requiring intensive care, has acutely demonstrated how helpful it would
Nikola Biller-Andorno, Armin Biller
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Models of advance directives in mental health care: stakeholder views [PDF]
, 2004 <i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance directives in mental health care. <i>Methods</i>: Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to assess their views on different ...
Atkinson, J.M. +2 more
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2017 Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applying advance directives to manage the decision-making process at the end of life care.
Eimantas Peicius +2 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) has emerged to improve end-of-life processes and experiences. However, the available evidence presents the gloomy picture of increasing number of older people living with chronic diseases and the mismatch between ...
Sarah Jeong +5 more
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Advanced Care Directives: Overcoming the Obstacles [PDF]
Journal of Graduate Medical Education, 2015 Abstract Background Advanced care directives (ACDs) and end-of-life discussions are important and typically difficult to initiate because of the sensitive nature of the topic and competing clinical priorities.
Sarah Leatherman, Allen +5 more
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Advance care planning in 21st century Australia: a systematic review and appraisal of online advance care directive templates against national framework criteria [PDF]
, 2015 Objectives A drive to promote advance care planning at a population level has led to a proliferation of online advance care directive (ACD) templates but little information to guide consumer choice.
Agar, M +6 more
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