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Perceptions of the Importance of Advance Care Planning During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Older Adults Living With HIV

Frontiers in Public Health, 2021
Background: The importance of advance care planning (ACP) discussions have been heightened during the COVID-19 pandemic. We assessed advance directive completion, healthcare proxy (HCP), and attitudes toward ACP among older adults ages 50+ living with ...
Annie L. Nguyen, Mariam Davtyan, Jeff Taylor, Christopher Christensen, Brandon Brown   +4 more
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Opportunities and challenges of self-binding directives: A comparison of empirical research with stakeholders in three European countries

European Psychiatry, 2023
Background Self-binding directives (SBDs) are psychiatric advance directives that include a clause in which mental health service users consent in advance to involuntary hospital admission and treatment under specified conditions.
Matthé Scholten, Simone A. Efkemann, Mirjam Faissner, Marleen Finke, Jakov Gather, Tania Gergel, Astrid Gieselmann, Lia van der Ham, Georg Juckel, Laura van Melle, Gareth Owen, Sarah Potthoff, Lucy A. Stephenson, George Szmukler, Astrid Vellinga, Jochen Vollmann, Yolande Voskes, Anna Werning, Guy Widdershoven   +18 more
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Development of an advance directive 'communication tool' relevant for patients with advanced cancer in six European countries: Experiences from the ACTION trial.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundThe ACTION trial evaluated the effect of a modified version of the Respecting Choices´ advance care planning programme in patients with advanced cancer in six European countries.
Caroline Moeller Arnfeldt, Mogens Groenvold, Anna Thit Johnsen, Branka Červ, Luc Deliens, Lesley Dunleavy, Agnes van der Heide, Marijke C Kars, Urška Lunder, Guido Miccinesi, Kristian Pollock, Judith A C Rietjens, Jane Seymour, ACTION consortium   +13 more
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Understanding Factors That Predict Advance Directive Completion

Palliative Medicine Reports, 2022
Background: Advance care planning was designed for the purpose of ensuring that patients receive care at end of life (EOL) that is congruent with their wishes, goals, and values.
Siobhan P. Aaron, Christine Musacchio, Sara L. Douglas   +2 more
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From text to interaction: The digital advance directive method for advance directives

Digital Health, 2023
Advance directives allow people to specify individual treatment preferences in case of decision-making incapacity involving decisions of utmost importance.
Armin Biller, Nikola Biller-Andorno
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Why have Advance Directives failed in Spain?

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate on the right of patients to ...
Benjamín Herreros, María Benito, Pablo Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
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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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