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Advance advance directives

BMJ, 2011
“Fight, fight, fight!” The children thronged around the two kids wrestling each other. It was a school spectacle, before children spent their lives on Facebook. It was generally the same people—“trouble makers”—crazed guys that you never made eye contact with.
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Advance directives

Nursing Older People, 2010
Advance care directives are statements either made orally or in writing by mentally competent adults stating how they wish to be treated should they, at some stage in the future, lose mental capacity. In practice, however, advance care planning is rarely used; end-of-life decisions are made by physicians or family.
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Advance Directives

Annual Review of Medicine, 2008
Most patients want some control over their medical care, including—or even especially—when they are too sick to participate in decisions. Clinicians who have to make decisions for patients who are unable to participate often would appreciate guidance from patients’ wishes. Advance care planning responds to these needs.
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Mandating advance directives

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2013
As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) costs become an increasingly pressing subject. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Adam E M, Eltorai, Richard W, Besdine
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Advance directive repository

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2014
As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) becomes an increasingly pressing issue. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Adam E M, Eltorai, Richard W, Besdine
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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1999
Different types of advance directives invite varying interpretation from emergency care professionals. As informed consent of a patient is not always possible to procure in emergency situations, advance directives can provide useful guidelines for clinicians' decision-making processes regarding individual patient care.
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Resuscitating Advance Directives

Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004
Advance directives have not fulfilled their promise of facilitating decisions about end-of-life care for incompetent patients. Many legal requirements and restrictions concerning advance directives are counterproductive. Requirements for witnessing or notarizing advance directives make it difficult for patients to complete a written directive during a ...
Bernard, Lo, Robert, Steinbrook
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Advance Directives

Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 1992
Advance directives concerning treatment have been firmly established in our society. Reactions to them, however, are varied, especially when the health care provider possesses a different belief about the care, or non-provision of care, in a particular situation.
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Attitudes Toward Advance Directives and Advance Directive Completion Rates

Orthopaedic Nursing, 2005
The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) (part of the ) requires that all healthcare institutions receiving Medicare and Medicaid funds inform patients about their right to participate in healthcare decisions, including their right to have an advance directive.
Susan W, Salmond, Estrella, David
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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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