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Perspectives of Korean Patients, Families, Physicians and Nurses on Advance Directives

Asian Nursing Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of lung cancer patients, their families, physicians and nurses on advance directives. Methods: The study employed a comparative descriptive design.
Jia Lee, PhD, RN, Ki Hyun Kim, MA, RN
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Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so.
Stefanie Baisch, Christina Abele, Anna Theile-Schürholz, Irene Schmidtmann, Frank Oswald, Tarik Karakaya, Tanja Müller, Janina Florack, Daniel Garmann, Jonas Karneboge, Gregor Lindl, Nathalie Pfeiffer, Aoife Poth, Bogdan Alin Caba, Martin Grond, Ingmar Hornke, David Prvulovic, Andreas Reif, Heiko Ullrich, Julia Haberstroh   +19 more
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How do our patients respond to the concept of psychiatric advance directives? An exploratory study from India

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, Veerappa Y Patil, Sandeep Patil, Sameeran S Chate, Ramling Dhabale, Nanasaheb M Patil   +5 more
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Association between knowledge and attitudes towards advance directives in emergency services

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Implementing the routine consultation of patient advance directives in hospital emergency departments and emergency medical services has become essential, given that advance directives constitute the frame of reference for care personalisation
Silvia Poveda-Moral, Pilar José-Maria de la Casa, Pere Sánchez-Valero, Núria Pomares-Quintana, Mireia Vicente-García, Anna Falcó-Pegueroles   +5 more
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Nurses’ perceptions of advance directives

Atención Primaria, 2014
Objective: To identify nurses perceptions of Advance Directives (AD) and to analyse the influence of experience with AD on their perception. Material and methods: Quantitative, descriptive, correlational study conducted in a hospital in central Portugal ...
Ernestina Silva, Maria Neves, Daniel Silva   +2 more
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Physicians' Attitudes on Advance Directives [PDF]

, 1989
Physicians practicing in Arkansas, one of the first states to pass legislation authorizing patients to refuse life-sustaining treatment in advance, were surveyed to determine their attitudes toward advance directives.
Caradine, Delbra, Hackler, Chris, McCord, Ronald S., Davidson, Kent W.   +3 more
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Advance directives among community-dwelling stroke survivors.

PLoS ONE, 2023
ObjectiveAdvance directives (ADs) are integral to health care, allowing patients to specify surrogate decision-makers and treatment preferences in case of loss of capacity.
Soumya Gupta, Bridget J Chen, Deji Suolang, Rachel Cooper, Roland Faigle   +4 more
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Advance research directives: avoiding double standards

BMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Advance research directives (ARD) have been suggested as a means by which to facilitate research with incapacitated subjects, in particular in the context of dementia research.
Bert Heinrichs
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Advance directives in the context of imprisonment [PDF]

, 2013
In countries where prison healthcare is truly independent and the principle of equivalence is fully respected, advance directives are a means of increasing patients’ self-determination.
Bernice S. Elger, Elger, Bernice Simone, Elger, BS   +2 more
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Betting Your Life: An Argument Against Certain Advance Directives [PDF]

, 1996
In the last decade the use of advance directives or living wills has become increasingly common. This paper is concerned with those advance directives in which the user opts for withdrawal of active treatment in a future situation where he or she is ...
Ryan, Christopher James
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