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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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Perceptions, Attitudes, and Knowledge toward Advance Directives: A Scoping Review
Healthcare (Switzerland), 2023 (1) Background: Advance directives are an expression of a person’s autonomy regarding end-of-life care. Several studies have shown that the level of completion in countries where advance directives are legalised is low.
João CARLOS Macedo +2 more
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Indian Journal of Psychological Medicine, 2018 Background: Psychiatric advance directives have been incorporated in the Mental Health Care Act 2017 despite strong concerns about their feasibility and utility in the Indian patient population. Data on its utility in India is very scarce.
Bheemsain Tekkalaki +5 more
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Awareness, approval and completion of advance directives in older adults in Switzerland
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018 BACKGROUND Advance directives enable people to describe their preferences for medical treatment (living will) and/or to appoint a healthcare proxy who may decide on their behalf should they lose decision-making capacity.
Sarah Vilpert +3 more
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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 ...
Benjamín Herreros +5 more
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Resuscitating Advance Directives
Archives of Internal Medicine, 2004 Advance directives have not fulfilled their promise of facilitating decisions about end-of-life care for incompetent patients. Many legal requirements and restrictions concerning advance directives are counterproductive. Requirements for witnessing or notarizing advance directives make it difficult for patients to complete a written directive during a ...
Bernard, Lo, Robert, Steinbrook
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BMC Medical Ethics, 2017 Background This paper joins the debate over changes in the role of health professionals when applying advance directives to manage the decision-making process at the end of life care.
Eimantas Peicius +2 more
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Directing citizens to create advance directives
Swiss Medical Weekly, 2018 This article describes the Swiss law on advance directives that was passed at the beginning of 2013 and led to more certainty about the legally binding character of such directives. However, for various reasons the drafting of advance directives is not
Sophie Haesen, David Shaw
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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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