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Advance directives and the impact of timing [PDF]

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2014
PRINCIPLES: Advance directives are seen as an important tool for documenting the wishes of patients who are no longer competent to make decisions in regards to their medical care.
Ina Otte, Corinna Jung, Bernice Elger, Klaus Bally   +3 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.
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, Bridget J Chen, Deji Suolang, Rachel Cooper, Roland Faigle   +4 more
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Mapping advance care planning and advance directives in Latin America [PDF]

BMC Palliative Care
Background/aims The extent to which low- and middle-income countries have implemented Advance Care Planning (ACP) and Advance Directives (AD) remains unclear. We aimed to map the current status of ACP/AD in Latin America.
Natália Rocha Tardelli, Fernanda Bono Fukushima, Jenny T. van der Steen, Manuel Iván Cobas Rodríguez, Rasa Mikelyte, Daniel Neves Forte, Alex Sander Watanabe Palácio, Vilma Adriana Tripodoro, Mirna Garcia Burgoa, Douglas Henrique Crispim, Alfredo Rodríguez-Núñez, Luis Ricardo González Cruz, Mariuska Forteza Sáez, Patricia Bonilla Sierra, Ancu Tatiana Feng Escobar, María Elena del Rosario Alcántara Godoy, Tulio Enrique Velásquez Castellanos, Mónica Osio Saldaña, Nisla Camaño Reyes, Miriam Elisa Riveros Ríos, Maria del Rosario Berenguel Cook, Gloria Castillo Pichardo, Carlos Fernando Acuña Aguilar, Gabriela Píriz Alvarez, Ismariel Inés Espín Gonzalez, Leonardo de Andrade Rodrigues Brito, Edison Iglesias de Oliveira Vidal   +26 more
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That was just your life: rethinking dementia for advance directives [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychiatry
Over 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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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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The discontinuation of antitumor treatment and the advance directives in cancer patients

Brazilian Journal of Oncology, 2020
Objectives: Advance directives (AD) are one of the main pillars of patients' autonomy and can impact directly the quality of life, dignity and rights of the dying patient.
Pedro Grachinski Buiar, Jose Roberto Goldim, Vania Naomi Hirakata   +2 more
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Exploring the Motivations for Completing Advance Care Directives: A Qualitative Study of Majority/Minority Israeli People Without Dementia

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundCompleting advance directives has been declared an essential instrument for preserving and respecting the autonomy and preferences for end-of-life care of people living with dementia.
Perla Werner, Natalie Ulitsa, Hanan AboJabel   +2 more
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Issues in the development of advance directives in mental health care [PDF]

, 2003
<i>Background</i>: Interest in advance directives in mental health care is growing internationally. There is no clear universal agreement as to what such an advance directive is or how it should function.
Atkinson, J.M., Garner, H., Patrick, H., Stuart, S.   +3 more
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Perspectives of Korean Patients, Families, Physicians and Nurses on Advance Directives

Asian Nursing Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of lung cancer patients, their families, physicians and nurses on advance directives. Methods: The study employed a comparative descriptive design.
Jia Lee, PhD, RN, Ki Hyun Kim, MA, RN
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