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Physician perspectives and compliance with patient advance directives: the role external factors play on physician decision making

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2012
Background Following passage of the Patient Self Determination Act in 1990, health care institutions that receive Medicare and Medicaid funding are required to inform patients of their right to make their health care preferences known through execution ...
Burkle Christopher M   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Psychiatric Advance Directives

open access: yesAJN, American Journal of Nursing, 2019
They can enhance the lives of patients with mental illness, but multiple obstacles impede their implementation.
openaire   +3 more sources

Forecasting the Dialysis Burden in Japan: Validation‐Based Projections of Prevalence and Incidence Through 2050

open access: yesTherapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Japan has one of the highest dialysis prevalence rates worldwide and a shrinking, aging population. Whether dialysis burden has entered a sustained post‐peak phase or whether recent declines partly reflect pandemic‐related disruptions remains uncertain.
Hatice Şahin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advance Directives: The New Zealand Context

open access: yes, 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   +2 more
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Advance Directives among Elderly Population: A Malaysian Experience

open access: yesJournal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2017
Objective: As not many studies have been done on the topic of advance directives in Malaysia and it has yet to gain awareness among our population, we realised the need for a study to be done not only to delineate the prevalence and preference but also ...
T L Koh   +3 more
doaj  

Enteropathogenic E. coli shows delayed attachment and host response in human jejunum organoid‐derived monolayers compared to HeLa cells

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC) infects the human intestinal epithelium, resulting in severe illness and diarrhoea. In this study, we compared the infection of cancer‐derived cell lines with human organoid‐derived models of the small intestine. We observed a delayed in attachment, inflammation and cell death on primary cells, indicating that host ...
Mastura Neyazi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Increasing Advance directive utilization in Hardwick, VT

open access: yes, 2019
This project was created to increase advance directive use at the Hardwick Area Health Center in Hardwick, VT. The project was aimed at creating awareness of the lack of advance directive use both to the providers and patients, so persuasive educational ...
Donnelly, Maeve Lauren
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Advance Directives and Dementia [PDF]

open access: yesHastings Center Report, 2018
AbstractA competent person can avoid the onset of dementia by refusing life‐sustaining medical care and by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, bringing life to an end well before any health crisis. A competent person can also try to limit the duration of dementia by drafting an advance directive that sets bounds on the life‐sustaining care ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Organoids in pediatric cancer research

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Organoid technology has revolutionized cancer research, yet its application in pediatric oncology remains limited. Recent advances have enabled the development of pediatric tumor organoids, offering new insights into disease biology, treatment response, and interactions with the tumor microenvironment.
Carla Ríos Arceo, Jarno Drost
wiley   +1 more source

Your guide to an advance healthcare directive

open access: yes, 2023
At different times in our lives, we all need to make decisions. We make important decisions about our finances, property, employment, accommodation, healthcare and social supports.
Mental Health Commission (MHC), Decision Support Service
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