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Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals

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, Aurelija Blazeviciene, Raimondas Kaminskas   +2 more
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Association between knowledge and attitudes towards advance directives in emergency services

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Implementing the routine consultation of patient advance directives in hospital emergency departments and emergency medical services has become essential, given that advance directives constitute the frame of reference for care personalisation
Silvia Poveda-Moral, Pilar José-Maria de la Casa, Pere Sánchez-Valero, Núria Pomares-Quintana, Mireia Vicente-García, Anna Falcó-Pegueroles   +5 more
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Advance directives in psychiatric care: a narrative approach [PDF]

Journal of Medical Ethics, 2001
Advance directives for psychiatric care are the subject of debate in a number of Western societies. By using psychiatric advance directives (or so-called “Ulysses contracts”), it would be possible for mentally ill persons who are competent and with their disease in remission, and who want timely intervention in case of future mental crisis, to give ...
Widdershoven, G., Berghmans, R.
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Early advance care planning in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients: results of a systematic intervention by a palliative care team in a multidisciplinary management programme – a 4-year cohort study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2021
INTRODUCTION Although recommended, the implementation of early advance care planning is suboptimal in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) patients.
Eglė Sukockienė, Ruxandra Iancu-Ferfoglia, Monique Boegli, Catherine Lefranc-Barranco, André Truffert, Anne-Chantal Héritier-Barras, Laurence Genton, Igor Leuchter, Dan Adler, Jean-Paul Janssens, Monica Escher   +10 more
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Stability of end-of-life preferences in relation to health status and life-events: A cohort study with a 6-year follow-up among holders of an advance directive.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Stating preferences about care beforehand using advance care planning and advance directives has become increasingly common in current medicine.
Matthijs P S van Wijmen, H Roeline W Pasman, Jos W R Twisk, Guy A M Widdershoven, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +4 more
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Understanding Advance Directives as a Component of Advance Care Planning

The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020
Walsh (2020) presents an argument against what she calls the received view of advance directives in the philosophical literature, suggesting instead a view that she believes is supported by “real c...
Kristina Celeste Fong, Winston Chiong
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How do our patients respond to the concept of psychiatric advance directives? An exploratory study from India

Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2018
Background: Psychiatric advance directives have been incorporated in the Mental Health Care Act 2017 despite strong concerns about their feasibility and utility in the Indian patient population. Data on its utility in India is very scarce.
Bheemsain Tekkalaki, Veerappa Y Patil, Sandeep Patil, Sameeran S Chate, Ramling Dhabale, Nanasaheb M Patil   +5 more
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Advance directives of patients: process of implementation by palliative care teams [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2020
Objectives: to investigate the process of implementing advance directives in palliative care teams in southern Brazil. Methods: an exploratory-descriptive study with a qualitative approach conducted with 51 professionals from seven palliative care teams
Aline Carniato Dalle Nogario, Edison Luiz Devos Barlem, Jamila Geri Tomaschewski-Barlem, Rosemary Silva da Silveira, Silvana Bastos Cogo, Deciane Pintanela de Carvalho   +5 more
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Perspectives of Korean Patients, Families, Physicians and Nurses on Advance Directives

Asian Nursing Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of lung cancer patients, their families, physicians and nurses on advance directives. Methods: The study employed a comparative descriptive design.
Jia Lee, PhD, RN, Ki Hyun Kim, MA, RN
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Advance directives among cognitively impaired persons who had an amyloid PET scan and their care partners: a mixed-methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Little research exists on the role of β-amyloid PET scans as part of Alzheimer’s diagnostic tests and documentation of end-of-life preferences for persons with cognitive impairment.
Emmanuelle Bélanger, Elyse Couch, Michaela S. Carroll, Nicole DePasquale, Emily A. Gadbois, Megan Shepherd-Banigan, Eric Jutkowitz, Courtney H. Van Houtven, Brenda L. Plassman, Terrie T. Wetle   +9 more
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