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“SpezPat”- common advance directives versus disease-centred advance directives: a randomised controlled pilot study on the impact on physicians’ understanding of non-small cell lung cancer patients’ end-of-life decisions

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background The advance directive represents patients’ health care choices and fosters patients’ autonomy. Nevertheless, understanding patients’ wishes based on the information provided in advance directives remains a challenge for health care providers ...
Julia Felicitas Leni Koenig, Thomas Asendorf, Alfred Simon, Annalen Bleckmann, Lorenz Truemper, Gerald Wulf, Tobias R. Overbeck   +6 more
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Advance care planning preferences in Chinese nursing home residents: results from two cross-sectional studies in Hong Kong and Taiwan

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background The proportion of hospital deaths has declined in the past few decades, while the proportions of nursing home deaths have increased. This trend of increasing deaths in long-term care facilities underlines the importance of improving end-of ...
Xinyi Xu, Shu-Wen Tu, Chia-Chin Lin
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Advance directives in patients with head and neck cancer - status quo and factors influencing their creation

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Advance Care Planning including living wills and durable powers of attorney for healthcare is a highly relevant topic aiming to increase patient autonomy and reduce medical overtreatment.
Moritz Allner, Magdalena Gostian, Matthias Balk, Robin Rupp, Clarissa Allner, Konstantinos Mantsopoulos, Christoph Ostgathe, Heinrich Iro, Markus Hecht, Antoniu-Oreste Gostian   +9 more
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The curious case of the advance directive in psychiatry

Indian Journal of Social Psychiatry, 2015
As discussions around the Mental Health Care Bill 2013 gain pace, one aspect of the bill, which is the Advance Directive, has perhaps not been discussed enough.
Alok Sarin
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A DIRECT ADVANCE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVES [PDF]

Bioethics, 2010
ABSTRACTAdvance directives (ADs), which are also sometimes referred to as ‘living wills’, are statements made by a person that indicate what treatment she should not be given in the event that she is not competent to consent or refuse at the future moment in question.
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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
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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: an interview study with mental health service users and professionals in the Netherlands

BMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include the possibility for service users to consent in advance to compulsory care in future mental health crises.
Laura van Melle, Lia van der Ham, Yolande Voskes, Guy Widdershoven, Matthé Scholten   +4 more
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Advance Directives as Support of Autonomy for Persons with Dementia A Pilot Study among Persons with Dementia and Their Informal Caregivers

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2017
Background: Advance directives could be an important instrument to support a person’s will once he/she is not able to consent anymore – if composed competently. A survey was conducted to identify the level of knowledge concerning possibilities and limits
Martina Schmidhuber, Sandra Haeupler, Velislava Marinova-Schmidt, Andreas Frewer, Peter L. Kolominsky-Rabas   +4 more
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Advance Directives and Research Advance Directives

Voices in Bioethics, 2021
Photo by Matteo Vistocco on Unsplash ABSTRACT This paper explores a way to ensure a person’s autonomy and legacy are preserved during the experience of dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease. Due to the profound effect the disease has on memory, the “person of the lifetime” (the person’s past experiences and their future aspirations prior to disease ...
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Associations of health literacy, personality traits, and pro-individualism with the willingness to complete advance directives in Taiwan

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Studies indicated that patients with advance directives (ADs) have a generally better quality of life near death. Yet, the concept of ADs is relatively new in East Asian countries.
Duan-Rung Chen, Hui-Ching Weng
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