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Should Aggregate Patient Preference Data Be Used to Make Decisions on Behalf of Unrepresented Patients? [PDF]
, 2019 Patient preference predictors aim to solve the moral problem of making treatment decisions on behalf of incapacitated patients. This commentary on a case of an unrepresented patient at the end of life considers 3 related problems of such ...
Sharadin, Nathaniel
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A website supporting sensitive religious and cultural advance care planning (ACPTalk): Formative and summative evaluation [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Advance care planning (ACP) promotes conversations about future health care needs, enacted if a person is incapable of making decisions at end-of-life that may be communicated through written documentation such as advance care directives.
Boyd +4 more
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Hematopoietic (stem) cells—The elixir of life?
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.The aging of HSCs (hematopoietic stem cells) and the blood system leads to the decline of other organs. Rejuvenating aged HSCs improves the function of the blood system, slowing the aging of the heart, kidney, brain, and liver, and the occurrence of age‐related diseases.
Emilie L. Cerezo +4 more
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Advance care directives: Citizens, patients, doctors, institutions
Journal of Public Health Research, 2019 Italian Law no. 219/2017 established the advance care directives (“Disposizioni anticipate di trattamento” – DAT), a legal document specifying the person’s wishes in relation to health, drawn up in case of the possible future incapacity to make informed ...
Paola Delbon +2 more
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Phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinase as a target of pathogens—friend or foe?
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This graphical summary illustrates the roles of phosphatidylinositol 4‐kinases (PI4Ks). PI4Ks regulate key cellular processes and can be hijacked by pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria and parasites, to support their intracellular replication. Their dual role as essential host enzymes and pathogen cofactors makes them promising drug targets.
Ana C. Mendes +3 more
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Older Adult Opinions of “Advance Driving Directives”
Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 2013 Background: Discussions about driving cessation are difficult. “Advance driving directives” (ADDs), like advance directives for end-of-life care, would allow drivers to designate someone to help make driving decisions for them in the future.
Marian E. Betz +2 more
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A study on the relationship of death anxiety and the completion of advance directives for oncology social workers [PDF]
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf ...
Peck, Marlys R., 1964-
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Bifidobacterium bifidum establishes symbiosis with infants by metabolizing lacto‐N‐biose I (LNB) from human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs). The extracellular multidomain enzyme LnbB drives this process, releasing LNB via its catalytic glycoside hydrolase family 20 (GH20) lacto‐N‐biosidase domain.
Xinzhe Zhang +5 more
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Einstein (São Paulo), 2019 The objective of this study was to identify the variables that influence physicians to implement Advance Directives and assess their impact on end-of-life care.
Larissa Mont’Alverne de Arruda +3 more
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, 1989 Material appearing below is thought to be of particular interest to Linacre Quarterly readers because of its moral, religious, or philosophic content. The medical literature constitutes the primary but not the sole source of such material.
Catholic Physicians\u27 Guild
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