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Willingness to provide advance care planning in hospital setting: a cross-sectional survey

Palliative Medicine in Practice
BACKGROUND: To assess the willingness to provide advance directives (AD) and evaluate the association of sociodemographic and cultural factors in hospitalized patients in a general ward.
Diego Caruso, Maria Pia Izaguirre Germain, Natasha Velcoff, Berenice Casas, Matias Zamudio, Feridco Sena, Josefina Velasco, Mary Berzain Rodriguez, Fernando Ross   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital Policy on Advance Directives: Do Institutions Ask Patients About Living Wills?

, 1989
Hospitals throughout the United States were surveyed in 1988 to determine their policies on advance directives, including living wills and durable power of attorney documents.
McCrary, S. Van, Botkin, Jeffrey R.
core   +1 more source

Bone Mineral Density After Contemporary Treatment for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia: A Matched Cross‐Sectional Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Reduced bone mineral density (BMD) has been reported in survivors of childhood and young adult acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL); however, data from cohorts treated with contemporary protocols and including matched controls remain limited.
Karen Schow Jensen, Mette Tiedemann Skipper, Niels Holtum Birkebæk, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Thomas Leth Frandsen, Bente Langdahl, Rikke Beck Jensen, Asger Roer Pedersen, Christian Mølgaard, Liv Andrés‐Jensen, Birgitte Klug Albertsen   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advance care planning dispositions: the relationship between knowledge and perception

BMC Geriatrics, 2019
Background Legal dispositions for advance care planning (ACP) are available but used by a minority of older adults in Switzerland. Some studies found that knowledge of and perception of those dispositions are positively associated with their higher usage.
Anne Cattagni Kleiner, Brigitte Santos-Eggimann, Sarah Fustinoni, Anne-Véronique Dürst, Katja Haunreiter, Eve Rubli-Truchard, Laurence Seematter-Bagnoud   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance Directives: The New Zealand Context

, 2005
Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. They are designed to communicate a competent consumer's perspective regarding the preferred treatment, should the consumer later become ...
Diesfeld, Kate, McCallin, Antoinette, Wareham, Pauline   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Parents of Youth With Cancer Report on Their Psychosocial Care: iSTEPPP Survey Finds Alignment and Gaps With Standards

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The Standards for Psychosocial Care for Children with Cancer and Their Families guide the provision of comprehensive psychosocial care. Parallel to research characterizing implementation of the Standards from the perspective of providers, this study examines implementation of the Standards from the perspective of parents of youth ...
Emily M. Pariseau, Kimberly Buff, Michele A. Scialla, Kimberly S. Canter, Lori Wiener, Victoria Sardi‐Brown, Julia B. Tager, Kamyar Arasteh, Anne E. Kazak   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Advance Directives or Living Wills to Advance Care Planning

NURE Investigación, 2004
Since 2000 a great amount of legal norms about advance directives documents has been developed in Spain. In this topic the experience of countries as USA and Canada is much longer, starting in the 60´s.
Inés Maria Barrio Cantalejo, Pablo Simón Lorda, Javier Júdez Gutiérrez   +2 more
doaj  

Planning ahead with dementia: what role can advance care planning play? A review of opportunities and challenges

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018
Advance directives emerged in the 1960s with the goal of empowering people to exert control over their future medical decisions. However, it has become apparent, over recent years, that advance directives do not sufficiently capture the temporal and ...
Francesca Bosisio, Ralf J Jox, Laura Jones, Eve Rubli Truchard   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so.
Stefanie Baisch, Christina Abele, Anna Theile-Schürholz, Irene Schmidtmann, Frank Oswald, Tarik Karakaya, Tanja Müller, Janina Florack, Daniel Garmann, Jonas Karneboge, Gregor Lindl, Nathalie Pfeiffer, Aoife Poth, Bogdan Alin Caba, Martin Grond, Ingmar Hornke, David Prvulovic, Andreas Reif, Heiko Ullrich, Julia Haberstroh   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Exercise Capacity, Physical Activity, Fatigue, and Neurocognitive Function in Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of reduced exercise capacity, decreased physical activity levels, persistent fatigue, and neurocognitive deficits. The aim was to investigate exercise capacity and physical activity levels of adult survivors of childhood ALL and their associations with ...
Laura Jess, Gustaf Glavå, Simon Skau, Hans‐Georg Kuhn, Maria Bäck, Marianne Jarfelt   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source