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Effect of a Community Health Worker Intervention on Acute Care Use, Advance Care Planning, and Patient-Reported Outcomes Among Adults With Advanced Stages of Cancer: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

JAMA Oncology, 2022
Importance Deficiencies in advance care planning and symptom management are associated with avoidable acute care use among patients with cancer. Community health worker (CHW)-led approaches may be an approach to reduce acute care use but remain untested ...
Manali I. Patel, K. Kapphahn, Marilyn Dewland, Veronica Aguilar, Blanca Sanchez, Etsegenet Sisay, Ariana Murillo, Kim Smith, David J. Park   +8 more
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Muslim perspectives on advance care planning: a model for community engagement

Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2021
Background: Advance care planning is the process of communicating and documenting a person’s future health care preferences. Despite its importance, knowledge of advance care planning is limited, especially among the Islamic community.
Alya Abbas Heirali, Sidra Javed, Zaheed Damani, Rahim Kachra, Sabira Valiani, Al-Karim Walli, Philippe Couillard, Rose Geransar, Jessica Simon, Safiya Karim   +9 more
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Deconstructing the Complexities of Advance Care Planning Outcomes: What Do We Know and Where Do We Go? A Scoping Review

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2020
Advance care planning (ACP) has shown benefit in some, but not all, studies. It is important to understand the utility of ACP. We conducted a scoping review to identify promising interventions and outcomes.
R. McMahan, Ismael Tellez, R. Sudore
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Models of advance directives in mental health care: stakeholder views [PDF]

, 2004
<i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance directives in mental health care. <i>Methods</i>: Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to assess their views on different ...
Garner, Helen C., Gilmour, W. Harper, Atkinson, JM, Garner, HC, Garner, H.C., Atkinson, Jacqueline M., Gilmour, W.H., Atkinson, J.M., Gilmour, WH   +8 more
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Prospective multicentre cross-sectional audit among older Australians accessing health and residential aged care services: protocol for a national advance care directive prevalence study

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction Advance care planning (ACP), an ongoing communication and planning process, aims to clarify a person’s values and preferences, so these guide decision-making if the person becomes unable to make his or her own decisions. Ideally, ACP results
Karen M Detering, Kimberly Buck, Helana Kelly, Marcus Sellars, Craig Sinclair, Linda Nolte, Ben White   +6 more
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Advance Care Planning, Palliative Care, and End-of-life Care Interventions for Racial and Ethnic Underrepresented Groups: A Systematic Review

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2021
Context: Persons from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups experience disparities in access to and quality of palliative and end-of-life care. Objectives: To summarize and evaluate existing palliative and end-of-life care interventions that aim to ...
Tessa Jones, Elizabeth A Luth, Shih-Yin Lin, A. Brody   +3 more
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Choosing Life, Not Suffering

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
In his 2010 New Yorker piece titled “Letting Go,” Dr. Atul Gawande discusses the case of Sara Thomas Monopoli, a 34-year-old woman with inoperable and metastatic lung cancer.
Mytra Haerizadeh, Dylan Marshall
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The impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients: randomised controlled trial

British medical journal, 2010
Objective To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. Design Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting Single centre study in a university hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
K. Detering, A. Hancock, M. Reade, W. Silvester   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Advance care planning and advance directives: an overview of the main critical issues

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2021
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that guarantees the respect of the patient’s values and priorities about his/her future care at the end of life.
C. Sedini, Martina Biotto, Lorenza M. Crespi Bel’skij, Roberto Ercole Moroni Grandini, M. Cesari   +4 more
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Experiences and preferences for advance care planning following a diagnosis of dementia: Findings from a cross-sectional survey of carers.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundFuture medical and financial planning is important for persons with dementia given the impact of the disease on capacity for decision making.AimsTo explore from the perspective of carers of persons with dementia: (1) Participation in future ...
Jamie Bryant, Elise Mansfield, Emilie Cameron, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source