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Measuring Advance Care Planning: Optimizing the Advance Care Planning Engagement Survey [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2017
A validated 82-item Advance Care Planning (ACP) Engagement Survey measures a broad range of behaviors. However, concise surveys are needed.The objective of this study was to validate shorter versions of the survey.The survey included 57 process (e.g., readiness) and 25 action items (e.g., discussions).
Deborah E. Barnes   +8 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Barriers to advance care planning: a qualitative study of seriously ill Chinese patients and their families

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Advance care planning (ACP) facilitates identification and documentation of patients’ treatment preferences. Its goal aligns with that of palliative care – optimizing quality of life of seriously ill patients.
Johnny T. K. Cheung   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Association of high‐dose radioactive iodine therapy with PPM1D‐mutated clonal hematopoiesis in older individuals

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In thyroid cancer patients, high‐dose (≥7.4 GBq) radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT) was associated with a higher prevalence of clonal hematopoiesis (variant allele frequency >2%) in individuals aged ≥50 years (OR = 2.44). In silico analyses showed that truncating PPM1D mutations conferred a selective advantage under these conditions.
Jaeryuk Kim   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of the advance/anticipatory care planning (ACP) facilitators training programme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This report presents an overview of the findings of the three phases of the study and assesses the degree to which the Facilitator Training Programme and Resource Pack have prepared the cohort of facilitators with the knowledge, skills and tools to ...
Ferguson, R, Harris, Rachel A
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Advance Care Planning in Faith Communities: A Quality Improvement Project [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This quality improvement project examined the impact of providing an advance care planning training tool to faith community nurses in the community setting on advance care planning knowledge, self-efficacy, and implementation of advance care planning ...
Chung, Catherine   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Advance Care Planning Video Intervention Among Long-Stay Nursing Home Residents: A Pragmatic Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.

open access: yesJAMA Internal Medicine, 2020
Importance Standardized, evidenced-based approaches to conducting advance care planning (ACP) in nursing homes are lacking. Objective To test the effect of an ACP video program on hospital transfers, burdensome treatments, and hospice enrollment among ...
S. Mitchell   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Targeting carbonic anhydrase IX/XII prevents the anti‐ferroptotic effect of stromal lactic acid in prostate carcinoma

open access: yesMolecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In prostate carcinoma, lactic acid, secreted by highly glycolytic cancer‐associated fibroblasts, is imported into tumor cells through the MCT1 transporter and prevents RSL3 and erastin‐induced ferroptosis (A). Targeting of carbonic anhydrase IX/XII, the main extracellular pH regulators, in tumor and stromal cells reduces microenvironmental acidosis and
Elisa Pardella   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Conversation Starters: Research Insights from Clinicans and Patients on Conversations about End-of-Life Care and Wishes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The John A. Hartford Foundation, Cambia Health Foundation, and California Health Care Foundation commissioned PerryUndem Research/ Communication to conduct focus groups among health care clinicians and patients on the topic of end-of-life care and wishes.

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Advance Care Planning in Primary Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Advance care planning (ACP) is the process of preemptively making choices regarding medical preferences for end-of-life care, while still having decision-making capacity.
Butterfield, Isabel   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Advance and future care planning

open access: yesBMJ
Patients, relatives, and healthcare professionals recognise the value of pre-emptive consideration and documentation of what treatments might be wanted and beneficial in an emergency. In the past, the most common advance planning documentation was a “do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation” (DNACPR) notice.
Hyson, Lara, Fritz, Zoë
openaire   +2 more sources

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