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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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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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Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals

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, Aurelija Blazeviciene, Raimondas Kaminskas   +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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Stability of end-of-life preferences in relation to health status and life-events: A cohort study with a 6-year follow-up among holders of an advance directive.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BACKGROUND:Stating preferences about care beforehand using advance care planning and advance directives has become increasingly common in current medicine.
Matthijs P S van Wijmen, H Roeline W Pasman, Jos W R Twisk, Guy A M Widdershoven, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen   +4 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, Carmen Borrat-Besson, Jürgen Maurer, Gian Domenico Borasio   +3 more
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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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Physicians' Attitudes on Advance Directives

, 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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Law, Autonomy and Advance Directives [PDF]

, 2010
The principle of autonomy underpins legal regulation of advance directives that refuse life-sustaining medical treatment. The primacy of autonomy in this domain is recognised expressly in the case law, through judicial pronouncement, and implicitly in ...
Mathews, Ben, White, Ben, Willmott, Lindy   +2 more
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Resuscitating Advance Directives

, 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.
Steinbrook, Robert, Lo, Bernard
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