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Directing citizens to create advance directives
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018 This article describes the Swiss law on advance directives that was passed at the beginning of 2013 and led to more certainty about the legally binding character of such directives. However, for various reasons the drafting of advance directives is not
Sophie Haesen, David Shaw
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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.
Dean Hart
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Advance directives among community-dwelling stroke survivors. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 ObjectiveAdvance directives (ADs) are integral to health care, allowing patients to specify surrogate decision-makers and treatment preferences in case of loss of capacity.
Soumya Gupta +4 more
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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.
Irfanullah Khan
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That was just your life: rethinking dementia for advance directives [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryOver the past decades, literature in dementia ethics has extensively looked at moral questions revolving around the care of older people living with dementia.
Franlu Vulliermet, Daan Kenis
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Critical care nurses’ knowledge and attitudes and their perspectives toward promoting advance directives and end-of-life care [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2022 Background End-of-life care can be a difficult and challenging process for critical care nurses in intensive care units (ICUs) due to the care plan shifts from providing life-sustaining measures to end-of-life care.
Mu-Hsing Ho +4 more
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From text to interaction: The digital advance directive method for advance directives [PDF]
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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Advance healthcare directives [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2006 Dying was once a relatively straightforward affair. If you had a terminal illness or were mortally injured, there was little your doctor could do apart from relieve your suffering and comfort your relatives. Nature would take its inexorable course. Two things changed this simple process: first, the arrival of lifesupporting or life-extending measures ...
R Hoffenberg
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Advance directives and cancer: oncology practices in Brazil [PDF]
Revista Bioética, 2023 Data on advance directives in Brazil are lacking. This study aims to assess the understanding of oncologists regarding advance directives and the frequency with which they discuss advance directives and advance care planning with their patients in Brazil.
Eni Devay de Freitas, Rui Nunes
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