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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, J K, Vinicky, M R, Gasner   +2 more
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Advance Care Planning (See Advance Directive)

2021
Advance care planning (ACP) (a.k.a. end-of-life care) is the process in which patients discuss their goals and preferences for future treatment and care with their relatives and healthcare providers. This process is important since patients may receive treatments such as resuscitation that they preferred not to receive.
Henk ten Have, Maria do Céu Patrão Neves   +1 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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Impact of advance care planning consults on advance directives completion

The American Journal of Managed Care, 2021
Advance care planning (ACP) consults have been credited with increasing the likelihood that patients will receive desired care at the end of life, including reduced hospitalization and spending. We aimed to investigate whether implementation of ACP consults leads to improved advance directive (AD) completion rates.Retrospective case-control evaluation ...
Michelle A, Leak, Elaine R, Gustetic, Nancy P, Ford, Launia J, White, Jordan, Rosedahl, Naveen, Perisetla, Gabrielle, Dozier, James M, Naessens, Catherine, Madaffari   +8 more
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Advance directives in the cardiac care unit

American Heart Journal, 2007
Despite effective therapies, mortality for many cardiovascular diseases remains higher than for many cancers and is difficult to predict. Guidelines recommend discussing advance directives (AD), including living wills and durable powers of attorney, with heart failure patients.
James N, Kirkpatrick, Carole J, Guger, Morton F, Arnsdorf, Savitri E, Fedson   +3 more
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Advance directives: Portuguese Palliative Care Professionals' views

International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2011
Advance directives are a controversial subject in Portugal at present, particularly among health professionals. Although some health professionals consider them to be important tools that are helpful in making proper decisions and promoting patient autonomy, others think that they may interfere with the human and relational dimension of care.
Sandra M, Pereira, Emília, Fradique, Renata, Fialho, Manuela, Cerqueira, Aurora, Pereira, Florbela, Sampaio   +5 more
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Advance Directive (See Advance Care Planning; Living Will)

2021
Advance directives are written documents that specify the medical preferences of competent people. They are prepared to provide instructions for future treatment in case such people become incompetent. There are two types of advance directives: living wills that specify the preferred treatment options and durable power of attorney that designates a ...
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Advance Directives Use in Acute Care Hospitals

JONA's Healthcare Law, Ethics, and Regulation, 2005
It is a federal requirement for health care organizations to provide and obtain information from admitted patients about their rights to self-determination and executing an advance directive. But how compliant are acute care organizations with this law?
Rose, Allen, Nestor, Ventura
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Beyond Advance Directives — Health Care Surrogate Laws

New England Journal of Medicine, 1992
Encouraging patients to execute advance directives is a worthy goal. Although such documents are certainly not perfect and may in many instances be difficult to interpret,1 it is usually much easie...
J A, Menikoff, G A, Sachs, M, Siegler
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Do Advance Directives Provide Instructions That Direct Care?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1997
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether the lack of effect of advance directives (ADs) on decision‐making in SUPPORT might arise, in part, from the content of the actual documents. DESIGN: Advance directives placed in the medical records were ...
Joan M Teno, Sandra Licks, Joanne Lynn, Neil Wenger, Alfred F. Connors, Russell S. Phillips, Mary Ann O'Connor, Donald P. Murphy, William J. Fulkerson, Norman Desbiens, William A. Knaus   +10 more
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