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Effect of Psychiatric Advance Directives Facilitated by Peer Workers on Compulsory Admission Among People With Mental Illness

JAMA psychiatry, 2022
This randomized clinical trial examines 12 months of follow-up data on rehospitalization and mental health outcomes for patients with schizophrenia, bipolar I disorder, or schizoaffective disorder who completed psychiatric advance directives with help ...
A. Tinland, S. Loubière, F. Mougeot, É. Jouet, Magali Pontier, K. Baumstarck, A. Loundou, N. Franck, C. Lançon, P. Auquier   +9 more
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Caught in a Loop with Advance Care Planning and Advance Directives: How to Move Forward?

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2022
Completion of an advance care planning (ACP) process and/or an advance directive should result in patients receiving the care they desire at the end of life. However, three decades of research have shown that is just not the case.
V. Periyakoil, C. Gunten, Robert Arnold, S. Hickman, S. Morrison, R. Sudore   +5 more
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Advance care planning and advance directives: an overview of the main critical issues

Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2021
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that guarantees the respect of the patient’s values and priorities about his/her future care at the end of life.
C. Sedini, Martina Biotto, Lorenza M. Crespi Bel’skij, Roberto Ercole Moroni Grandini, M. Cesari   +4 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.
D. Hart
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Advance directives in the emergency department

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Advance directives are documents to convey patients’ preferences in the event they are unable to communicate them. Patients commonly present to the emergency department near the end of life.
E. F. Baker, C. Marco
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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 ...
B. Herreros, M. Benito, P. Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
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Completion of Advance Directives and Documented Care Preferences During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2020
This cohort study examines changes in completion of and expressed preferences on an online advanced directive platform during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
C. Auriemma, S. Halpern, Jeremy M. Asch, Matthew Van Der Tuyn, D. Asch   +4 more
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Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2020
Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and end-of-life care among minority adults.
M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan-Hejazi
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A review and analysis of new Italian law 219/2017: ‘provisions for informed consent and advance directives treatment’

BMC Medical Ethics, 2019
In December 2017, Law 219/2017, ‘Provisions for informed consent and advance directives’, was approved in Italy. The law is the culmination of a year-long process and the subject of heated debate throughout Italian society.
M. Di Paolo, Federica Gori, L. Papi, E. Turillazzi   +3 more
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Advance directives in European long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional survey

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2019
Background End-of-life care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are the focus of growing attention in Europe, due to rapidly increasing number of older persons living in LTCFs.
P. Andreasen, U. Finne-Soveri, L. Deliens, L. Van den Block, S. Payne, G. Gambassi, B. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, T. Smets, E. Lilja, Violetta Kijowska, K. Szczerbińska   +10 more
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