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Advance Directives: What Have We Learned So Far?
, 1993 As a result of the recent intense focus on advance directives, it is now possible to resolve several questions. It is clear that instructional directives are best able to represent a patient's wishes in the clinical context if they make use of scenario ...
Emanuel, Linda
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End-of-Life Care in the 21st Century: Advance Directives in Universal Rights Discourse
, 2010 This article explores universal normative bases that could help to shape a workable legal construct that would facilitate a global use of advance directives.
Be?irevié, Violeta
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Advance Directives and Dementia [PDF]
Hastings Center Report, 2018 AbstractA competent person can avoid the onset of dementia by refusing life‐sustaining medical care and by voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, bringing life to an end well before any health crisis. A competent person can also try to limit the duration of dementia by drafting an advance directive that sets bounds on the life‐sustaining care ...
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The human gut microbiome across the life course
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero +4 more
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Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Medical Residents (Out of Print)
MedEdPORTAL, 2007 Introduction Good care of patients at end-of-life can result in a meaningful period of personal growth for the patient and family, and a rewarding experience for the physician. While palliative care education in medical schools has improved over the past
Douglas Ross, Susan Wolfsthal
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Degradation mechanism of the von Willebrand factor A2 domain by nattokinase
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Nattokinase, a natto‐derived protease, exhibits potent antithrombotic effects. This study demonstrates that nattokinase directly cleaves the von Willebrand factor (vWF) A2 domain in vitro. Unlike the native regulator ADAMTS13, nattokinase degrades folded vWF independently of shear stress.
Ryuichi Hyakumoto +3 more
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, 1994 Patients are joining their physicians more often in making decisions about medical care. With advance directives patients can make their preferences about care known, even when they cannot participate in medical decisions, and choose the people they want
Wenger, Neil S., Halpern, Jodi
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Religious advance directives: the convergence of law, religion, medicine, and public health.
, 1993 Because of the deep interpersonal significance of decisions made at the end of life, it is not surprising that religion has played an important role in patient and family decision making.
Grodin, Michael A., M A Grodin
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Advance Directives among Elderly Population: A Malaysian Experience
Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 2017 Objective: As not many studies have been done on the topic of advance directives in Malaysia and it has yet to gain awareness among our population, we realised the need for a study to be done not only to delineate the prevalence and preference but also ...
T L Koh +3 more
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.We present robust protocols for the preparation of supported lipid bilayers (SLBs) incorporating either Salmonella smooth LPS or outer membrane vesicles (OMVs). We use a combination of quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM‐D) and fluorescence microscopy to both characterize the SLBs of various compositions and to probe their interactions ...
Hudson P. Pace +6 more
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