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Annual Review of Medicine, 2008
Most patients want some control over their medical care, including—or even especially—when they are too sick to participate in decisions. Clinicians who have to make decisions for patients who are unable to participate often would appreciate guidance from patients’ wishes. Advance care planning responds to these needs.
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Most patients want some control over their medical care, including—or even especially—when they are too sick to participate in decisions. Clinicians who have to make decisions for patients who are unable to participate often would appreciate guidance from patients’ wishes. Advance care planning responds to these needs.
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Nursing Older People, 2010
Advance care directives are statements either made orally or in writing by mentally competent adults stating how they wish to be treated should they, at some stage in the future, lose mental capacity. In practice, however, advance care planning is rarely used; end-of-life decisions are made by physicians or family.
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Advance care directives are statements either made orally or in writing by mentally competent adults stating how they wish to be treated should they, at some stage in the future, lose mental capacity. In practice, however, advance care planning is rarely used; end-of-life decisions are made by physicians or family.
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Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 1992
Advance directives concerning treatment have been firmly established in our society. Reactions to them, however, are varied, especially when the health care provider possesses a different belief about the care, or non-provision of care, in a particular situation.
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Advance directives concerning treatment have been firmly established in our society. Reactions to them, however, are varied, especially when the health care provider possesses a different belief about the care, or non-provision of care, in a particular situation.
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Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America, 1999
Different types of advance directives invite varying interpretation from emergency care professionals. As informed consent of a patient is not always possible to procure in emergency situations, advance directives can provide useful guidelines for clinicians' decision-making processes regarding individual patient care.
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Different types of advance directives invite varying interpretation from emergency care professionals. As informed consent of a patient is not always possible to procure in emergency situations, advance directives can provide useful guidelines for clinicians' decision-making processes regarding individual patient care.
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Aging Clinical and Experimental Research, 2013
As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) costs become an increasingly pressing subject. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Adam E M, Eltorai, Richard W, Besdine
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As the population ages, end-of-life care (EOLC) costs become an increasingly pressing subject. Advance directives (ADs) are legal documents that allow individuals to convey their decisions about EOLC. Although ADs have been shown to reduce EOLC costs, most people do not have ADs.
Adam E M, Eltorai, Richard W, Besdine
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ADVANCING AN ADVANCE DIRECTIVE DEBATE
Bioethics, 2008ABSTRACTA challenge has recently been levelled against the legal and/or moral legitimacy of some advance directives. It has been argued that in certain cases an advance directive carries no weight in a decision on whether to withhold treatment, since the individual in the debilitating state is not the same person as the person who created the advance ...
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On Advancing Advance Directives
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1995In a recentissue of theArchives, Reilly et al 1 undertook to determine whether a simple educational intervention, namely, the mailing of an educational brochure describing advance directives and a copy of the New York State Health Care Proxy form, would encourage outpatients in a community to execute durable health care proxies.
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Advance Directives in Dialysis
Advances in Renal Replacement Therapy, 1994A written advance directive (AD) is a document intended to indicate a person's preferences with respect to treatment decisions that may be necessary if and when that person becomes incompetent. Both in research and in practice, there are features of the dialysis population that make ADs potentially quite relevant and useful. An evolving body of empiric
D C, Mendelssohn, P A, Singer
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Descendants and advance directives
Monash Bioethics Review, 2014Some of the concerns that have been raised in connection to the use of advance directives are of the epistemic variety. Such concerns highlight the possibility that adhering to an advance directive may conflict with what the author of the directive actually wants (or would want) at the time of treatment.
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Advance Directives and Dementia
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2000There is a growing interest in advance directives in health care. In a number of jurisdictions the legal status of advance directives is regulated by law, or legal regulation is being discussed. Advance directives have emerged as a vehicle for people to control post-competence medical interventions.1 In an advance directive, a person can formulate his ...
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