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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 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.
Eileen F. Baker, Catherine A. Marco
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Mapping advance care planning and advance directives in Latin America [PDF]
BMC Palliative CareBackground/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 +26 more
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Primary Healthcare NZ Nurses’ experiences of Advance Directives: Understanding Their Potential Role [PDF]
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2013 Advance directives are one aspect of advance care planning designed to improve end of life care. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation released their first mission statement in 2010 concerning advance directives suggesting an increase in the use of these ...
Raewyn Davidson +2 more
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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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Contribution to improve advance directives in Portugal [PDF]
, 2020 This article explains the state of Advance Directives (concerning living wills in case of inability to express one) in Portugal. It explores the causes of the low number of registered advance directives and proposes a standard form, one of the ways to ...
Macedo, João Carlos Gama Martins
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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 +2 more
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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 +2 more
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A DIRECT ADVANCE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVES [PDF]
Bioethics, 2010 ABSTRACTAdvance directives (ADs), which are also sometimes referred to as ‘living wills’, are statements made by a person that indicate what treatment she should not be given in the event that she is not competent to consent or refuse at the future moment in question.
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Models of advance directives in mental health care: stakeholder views [PDF]
, 2004 <i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance directives in mental health care. <i>Methods</i>: Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to assess their views on different ...
Garner, Helen C. +8 more
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