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Primary Healthcare NZ Nurses’ experiences of Advance Directives: Understanding Their Potential Role [PDF]
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2013 Advance directives are one aspect of advance care planning designed to improve end of life care. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation released their first mission statement in 2010 concerning advance directives suggesting an increase in the use of these ...
Raewyn Davidson +2 more
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Advance directives across Asia : a comparative sociolegal analysis / [PDF]
, 2023 This book is the first to consider comprehensively and systematically the law and practice of advance directives across Asia. It will thus be important not only as a reference volume that documents how advance directives are regulated and used throughout
Dunn, Michael, +6 more
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Contribution to improve advance directives in Portugal [PDF]
, 2020 This article explains the state of Advance Directives (concerning living wills in case of inability to express one) in Portugal. It explores the causes of the low number of registered advance directives and proposes a standard form, one of the ways to ...
Macedo, João Carlos Gama Martins +1 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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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 ...
Garner, Helen C. +8 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.
Patrick, H. +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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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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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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