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Advance Care Planning in Ecuador

Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023
Advance Care Planning is a process by which a patient's health care preferences are established in advance in the event that he or she become temporarily or constantly unable to make decisions for themselves in the future. It is also applied early in emergencies, in intensive care treatment, and after surgery where one's ability to decide is reduced ...
Patricia Bonilla, Sierra   +2 more
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Impact of advance care planning and end-of-life conversations on patients with cancer: An integrative review of literature.

Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2022
PURPOSE The purpose was to review published articles to examine the impact of advance care planning (ACP) and end-of-life (EOL) conversations on patients with cancer, and aimed to compare the findings for congruency with the goals of ACP.
P. Goswami
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Advance care planning: the future

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2020
ObjectivesThere is increased global focus on advance care planning (ACP) with attention from policymakers, more education programmes, laws and public awareness campaigns.MethodsWe provide a summary of the evidence about what ACP is, and how it should be conducted.
Judith Rietjens   +2 more
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Should we still believe in advance care planning?

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2022
The study by Lee and colleagues in this issue of JAGS finds that older adults with a higher perceived risk of dementia are more likely to have engaged in advance care planning than those with no perceived risk.
Alex K. Smith
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Advance Care Planning

Archives of Family Medicine, 2000
Advance care planning is the process of planning for future medical care, particularly for the event when the patient is unable to make his or her own decisions. It should be a routine part of standard medical care and, when possible, conducted with the proxy decision maker present. It is helpful to think of the process as a stepwise approach.
L L, Emanuel   +2 more
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Advance Care Planning

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 2017
The overall rate of advance care planning (ACP) in the general population remains low. ACP is a dynamic process that needs to be refined over time. ACP documentation includes the naming of a health care proxy, preferences regarding life-sustaining treatment interventions, and other, more disease-specific, interventions, such as chemotherapy ...
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Advance Care Planning in Taiwan

Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023
Taiwan has been promoting the concept of palliative care since 1983. In the 2021 global quality of death index, Taiwan ranked third. Regarding the development of patient autonomy, there are two phases. The first phase was the passage of the Hospice Palliative Care Act in 2000, which respects the personal choices of terminally ill patients, including ...
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Advance Care Planning in Spain

Zeitschrift für Evidenz, Fortbildung und Qualität im Gesundheitswesen, 2023
In the last decade in Spain, an important push has been given to the development of health policies that define the framework of action in the care of people with advanced chronic diseases. Respect for the autonomy of the patient, shared decision-making processes and advance care planning (ACP) are recognized into health plans as a key aspect in ...
Cristina, Lasmarías   +8 more
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Advance care planning and palliative care

Evidence Based Nursing, 2016
EBN Perspectives brings together key issues from the commentaries in one of our nursing topic themes. This article is part of Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) Perspectives . In this series, commentaries from the past 2 years from a specific nursing theme are brought together and highlights are discussed.
Roberta, Heale, Helen, Noble
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Objectives for Advance Care Planning

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2002
Identifying objectives for advance care planning (ACP) is an important step toward improving care at the end of life. Previous studies of ACP have used many different measures of success. However, there has been no consensus on what should be the objectives for ACP.
Russ C, Kolarik   +3 more
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