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Advance Directives and End-of-Life Care among Nursing Home Residents Receiving Maintenance Dialysis.

American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2017
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known about the relation between the content of advance directives and downstream treatment decisions among patients receiving maintenance dialysis.
M. Kurella Tamura, M. Montez-Rath, Y. Hall, R. Katz, A. O'Hare   +4 more
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Nurses' knowledge of advance directives and perceived confidence in end‐of‐life care: a cross‐sectional study in five countries

International Journal of Nursing Practice, 2016
Nurses' knowledge regarding advance directives may affect their administration and completion in end‐of‐life care. Confidence among nurses is a barrier to the provision of quality end‐of‐life care.
RN MichalItzhaki
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Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals

BMC Medical Ethics, 2017
BackgroundThis 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.
E. Peičius, A. Blaževičienė, Raimondas Kaminskas   +2 more
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Prevalence of advance care directives in the community: a telephone survey of three Australian States

Internal medicine journal (Print), 2019
The community prevalence of advance care directives (ACD) is low despite known benefits of advance care planning for patients, families and health professionals.
B. White, L. Willmott, C. Tilse, Jill Wilson, M. Ferguson, Joanne F. Aitken, J. Dunn, Deborah Lawson, Dr. A. Pearce, Rachel Feeney   +9 more
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Prevalence and Contents of Advance Directives of Patients with ESRD Receiving Dialysis.

American Society of Nephrology. Clinical Journal, 2016
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES ESRD requiring dialysis is associated with increased morbidity and mortality rates, including increased rates of cognitive impairment, compared with the general population. About one quarter of patients receiving dialysis choose
M. Feely, Daniel Hildebrandt, Jithinraj Edakkanambeth Varayil, P. Mueller   +3 more
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Advance directives: cancer patients' preferences and family-based decision making

OncoTarget, 2017
Background Advance directives are a sensitive issue among traditional Chinese people, who usually refrain from mentioning this topic until it is imperative.
Yan-Fang Xing, Jin-xiang Lin, Xing Li, Q. Lin, Xiao-kun Ma, Jie Chen, Dong-hao Wu, Li Wei, Liang-hong Yin, Xiangyuan Wu   +9 more
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A Snapshot of Advance Directives in Long-Term Care: How Often Is "Do Not" Done?

Healthcare Quarterly, 2017
Advance directives allow individuals and their families or legal guardians to communicate preferences for interventions and treatments in the event that these individuals are no longer able to make decisions for themselves.
Sheril Perry, Christina Lawand
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Willingness to complete advance directives among low-income older adults living in the USA.

Health and Social Care in the community, 2016
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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Challenges to implementation of advance directives of will in hospital practice.

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2016
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, Valéria Lerch Lunardi, Alberto Manuel Quintana, Nara Marilene Oliveira Girardon-Perlini, Rosemary Silva da Silveira   +4 more
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Prevalence of Advance Directives Among Older Adults Admitted to Intensive Care Units and Requiring Mechanical Ventilation.

Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 2016
Because older adults are at high risk for hospitalization and potential decisional incapacity, advance directives are important components of pre-hospital advanced care planning, as they document individual preferences for future medical care.
E. Gamertsfelder, J. Seaman, J. Tate, Praewpannarai Buddadhumaruk, M. Happ   +4 more
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