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Advance Care Directives: A Herzl Clinic Quality Improvement Project on Patients' perspectives
McGill Journal of Medicine, 2023 Background: Advance Care Planning (ACP) has benefits for patients and is often optimal when done in the primary care setting. Despite the development of multiple resources and tools to support ACP discussions at our Family Medicine Teaching Clinic, the ...
Fanny Hersson-Edery
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Communication About Advance Directives: Are Patients Sharing Information With Physicians? [PDF]
, 1992 ...As part of a larger investigation of patient opinions and behaviors about ADs [advance directives], the present study examined patient communication patterns and preferences and sought to determine the extent to which patients direct communication ...
Elpern, Ellen +2 more
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BMC Public Health, 2010 Background ADs are documents in which one can state one's preferences concerning end-of-life care, aimed at making someone's wishes known in situations where he/she is not able to do so in another manner. There is still a lot unclear about ADs.
Onwuteaka-Philipsen Bregje D +4 more
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How Can Be Increased the Accessibility and Effectiveness of Advance Directives?
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, 2023 One or more forms of advance directives are regulated in the majority of legal systems. However, people generally do not create advance directives.
Balázs Tőkey, István Hoffman
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Advance Directives: The New Zealand Context [PDF]
, 2005 Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. They are designed to communicate a competent consumer's perspective regarding the preferred treatment, should the consumer later become ...
Diesfeld, Kate +2 more
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Advance Directives, Dementia, and "The Someone Else Problem" [PDF]
, 1999 Advance directives permit competent adult patients to provide guidance regarding their care in the event that they lose the capacity to make medical decisions.
DeGrazia, David
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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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Advance Directives and Withdrawal of Dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan [PDF]
, 1996 OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of advance directives in decisions to withdraw chronic dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan. DESIGN: Survey by questionnaire.
Sehgal, Ashwini R. +5 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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Advance Directives for Non-Therapeutic Dementia Research: Some Ethical and Policy Considerations [PDF]
, 1998 This paper explores the use of advance directives in clinical dementia research. The focus is on advance consent to participation of demented patients in non-therapeutic research involving more than minimal risks and/or burdens.
Berghmans, R. L. P., Berghmans, R.L.P.
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