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Advance Directives in Dialysis

Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, 1994
A written advance directive (AD) is a document intended to indicate a person's preferences with respect to treatment decisions that may be necessary if and when that person becomes incompetent. Both in research and in practice, there are features of the dialysis population that make ADs potentially quite relevant and useful. An evolving body of empiric
D C, Mendelssohn, P A, Singer
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Descendants and advance directives

Monash Bioethics Review, 2014
Some of the concerns that have been raised in connection to the use of advance directives are of the epistemic variety. Such concerns highlight the possibility that adhering to an advance directive may conflict with what the author of the directive actually wants (or would want) at the time of treatment.
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Advance Directives and Dementia

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2000
There is a growing interest in advance directives in health care. In a number of jurisdictions the legal status of advance directives is regulated by law, or legal regulation is being discussed. Advance directives have emerged as a vehicle for people to control post-competence medical interventions.1 In an advance directive, a person can formulate his ...
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Advance Directives in Canada

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2006
Advance directives enable individuals to project their healthcare preferences into a period of anticipated incapacity. With advance directives, individuals can designate whom they would like to have make healthcare decisions for them (proxy directives), or give their healthcare provider advice on what to do (instructional directives), or both ...
Alister, Browne, Bill, Sullivan
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Advance Directives

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 2011
The number of elderly persons is expected to increase to 55 million by 2020, with the minority population increasing to 12.9 million, yet fewer than 30% of Americans have advance directives in place. Cultural values, religious beliefs, and family support systems are a few of the factors that influence or hinder the completion of advance directives ...
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Advances in Advance Directives

The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2022
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Psychiatric Advance Directives

Journal of Psychiatric Practice, 2003
Psychiatric advance directives are gaining attention as the number of consumers seeking metal health services increases. Even though medical advance directives have existed for years, psychiatric advance directives are in their infancy. The goal of these directives is to increase patient autonomy and decrease coercive treatment.
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The Authority of Advance Directives

2012
In my wallet I always keep my membership card of a road service company, my organ donor card, a blood group card, and a ragged piece of paper stating my living will.
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Following Advance Directives

The Hastings Center Report, 1994
As we define the ethical framework in which directives operate, we must heed empirical research. Studies indicate that patients, wishes about life-sustaining treatments are not entirely stable over time, though choices to forgo life-sustaining treatment seem to be much more stable than choices to receive such treatment.[1] One report provides an ...
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Autonomy and Advance Directives

Canadian Journal on Aging / La Revue canadienne du vieillissement, 1993
RÉSUMÉL'auteur de cet article soutient que la prise de décisions par les aînés à propos de la nature future des soins de la santé qui leur sont destinés devrait être accueillie avee scepticisme étant donné qu'elle se produit dans un contexte de coercition prononcée.
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