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A qualitative study of health care professionals’ views and experiences of paediatric advance care planning [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2018 Background Good end-of-life care planning is vital to ensure optimal care is provided for patients and their families. Two key factors are open and honest advance care planning conversations between the patient (where possible), family, and health care ...
Barbara A. Jack +4 more
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BMC Health Services Research, 2021 Background Advance care planning (ACP) and advance care directive (ACD) completion improve outcomes for patients, family, clinicians and the healthcare system. However, uptake remains low.
Karen M. Detering +6 more
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Palliative Medicine, 2022 Background: Advance care planning is important for people with advanced cancer. Family involvement in advance care planning may be instrumental to achieving goal-concordant care since they frequently become surrogate decision-makers.
Megumi Kishino +3 more
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Advance Care Directives: A Herzl Clinic Quality Improvement Project on Patients' perspectives
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023 Background: Advance Care Planning (ACP) has benefits for patients and is often optimal when done in the primary care setting. Despite the development of multiple resources and tools to support ACP discussions at our Family Medicine Teaching Clinic, the ...
Fanny Hersson-Edery
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Health Expectations, 2021 Background Advance care planning (ACP) conversations may result in preferences for medical care being documented. Objective To explore the uptake and quality of advance care directives (ACDs) among older Australians accessing health and aged care ...
Kimberly Buck +7 more
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Health & Justice, 2020 Background Limited information is available describing advance care planning (ACP) within correctional facilities, despite its increasing relevance due to the ageing population in prisons and the high rates of complex medical comorbidities.
Ashley Macleod +4 more
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Caught in a Loop with Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: How to Move Forward?
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2022 Completion of an advance care planning (ACP) process and/or an advance directive should result in patients receiving the care they desire at the end of life. However, three decades of research have shown that is just not the case.
V. Periyakoil +5 more
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Advance Care Planning in Belgium
Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023 This paper aims to 1) describe current levels of Advance Care Planning (ACP) development since 2002 in Belgium, 2) report on challenges and opportunities to inspire other countries with similar contextual characteristics and 3) support further development of ACP practice and research in Belgium. To address these aims, we consulted local researchers, 12
Dupont, Charless +3 more
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Palliative Medicine, 2022 Background: Broad consensus exists on the relevance of advance care planning in dementia. Although people with young-onset dementia and their family are hypothesized to have distinct needs and preferences in this area, they are hardly ever included in ...
Romy Van Rickstal +4 more
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Exploring the Attitudes and Needs of Advance Care Planning Practice Among the Working Generation
Tokyo Women's Medical University Journal, 2022 Background: This study explores the working generation's attitudes and needs regarding advance care planning and the factors associated with its practice.
Takako Iwasaki +7 more
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