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Timing Prompts for Advance Care Planning Discussions and Advance Directive Completion.

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Wenger NS   +9 more
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Advance directives and advance care planning

Revue medicale suisse, 2018
This chapter discusses the history of advance directives (ADs) and Advance Care Planning (ACP) in the United States of America, the evidence base regarding the application of ADs and ACP in American healthcare, and the use of technology to facilitate ACP and AD in the US. Improvements in public health and biomedical technology during the latter half of
Maria J. Silveira, Phillip Rodgers
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Ethnicity and Advance Care Directives

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 1996
Advance care directives for health care have been promoted as a way to improve end-of-life decision making. These documents allow a patient to state, in advance of incapacity, the types of medical treatments they would like to receive (a living will), to name a surrogate to make those decisions (a durable power of attorney for health care), or to do ...
S T, Murphy   +5 more
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Advance directives

Critical Care Medicine, 1992
To discuss the relative merits and limitations of living wills and the durable power of attorney for health care.Computerized search of MEDLINE.Studies involving treatment decisions at the end of life and descriptive articles on advance directives.The recent Cruzan case and passage of the Patient Self-Determination Act have led to an ethical and legal ...
H J, Silverman   +2 more
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Advanced Directives and Midwifery Care

Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, 2003
The Patient Self‐Determination Act was passed by the U.S. federal government in 1990 and became effective in December 1991. This federal law requires institutions that accept Medicaid funding to provide written information about rights to make decisions about medical care to all persons admitted for care.
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