Willingness to complete advance directives among low-income older adults living in the USA.
This study explored low-income older adults' willingness to (i) complete advance directives, legal documents, whereby an individual designates decision-makers in the event that they cannot make their own decisions about end-of-life treatment preferences,
Eunjeong Ko, Jaehoon Lee, Youngjoon Hong
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In the adult T‐cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL) cell line ED, the human T‐cell leukemia virus type 1 (HTLV‐1) provirus was integrated into the intron of the ift81 gene in the antisense orientation. Despite this integration, both the intact ift81 and the viral oncogene hbz were simultaneously expressed, likely due to the functional insufficiency of viral ...
Mayuko Yagi+5 more
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Challenges to implementation of advance directives of will in hospital practice.
Objective: to understand the difficulties and limitations in the implementation of advance directives of will in the hospital context. Method: qualitative, exploratory and descriptive study conducted by means of semi-structured interviews with nurses ...
S. B. Cogo+4 more
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An Educational Intervention to Increase Advance Directive Completion [PDF]
In the United States, it is common for patients to receive prolonged, aggressive medical care at the end of life (Levi & Green, 2010). This level of medical care may or may not be in alignment with patients’ wishes.
Harlow, Kimberly
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The Influence of Physician Race, Age, and Gender on Physician Attitudes Toward Advance Care Directives and Preferences for End‐Of‐Life Decision‐Making [PDF]
Eric W. Mebane+3 more
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Cyclic nucleotide signaling as a drug target in retinitis pigmentosa
Disruptions in cGMP and cAMP signaling can contribute to retinal dysfunction and photoreceptor loss in retinitis pigmentosa. This perspective examines the mechanisms and evaluates emerging evidence on targeting these pathways as a potential therapeutic strategy to slow or prevent retinal degeneration.
Katri Vainionpää+2 more
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The “Conscience” Rule: How Will It Affect Patients’ Access to Health Services? [PDF]
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Office of Civil Rights (OCR) released a final rule that heightens the rights of hospitals and health workers to refuse to participate in patients’ medical care based on religious or
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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From Advance Directives or Living Wills to Advance Care Planning
Since 2000 a great amount of legal norms about advance directives documents has been developed in Spain. In this topic the experience of countries as USA and Canada is much longer, starting in the 60´s.
Inés Maria Barrio Cantalejo+2 more
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Comparison of patients' and health care professionals' attitudes towards advance directives. [PDF]
Danielle Blondeau+4 more
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Cell‐free DNA aneuploidy score as a dynamic early response marker in prostate cancer
mFast‐SeqS‐based genome‐wide aneuploidy scores are concordant with aneuploidy scores obtained by whole genome sequencing from tumor tissue and can predict response to ARSI treatment at baseline and, at an early time point, to ARSI and taxanes. This assay can be easily performed at low cost and requires little input of cfDNA. Cell‐free circulating tumor
Khrystany T. Isebia+17 more
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