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Palliative Medicine, 2020
Background: Advance care planning and advance directives play a key role in the care of life-threatening illnesses such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
S. Cipolletta, M. Reggiani
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Background: Advance care planning and advance directives play a key role in the care of life-threatening illnesses such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
S. Cipolletta, M. Reggiani
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Advance advance directives [PDF]
BMJ, 2011 “Fight, fight, fight!” The children thronged around the two kids wrestling each other. It was a school spectacle, before children spent their lives on Facebook. It was generally the same people—“trouble makers”—crazed guys that you never made eye contact with.
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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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Healthcare professionals’ perceptions about the Italian law on advance directives
Nursing Ethics, 2019Background: In the variegated legislative framework on advance directives, the first specific regulation in Italy on this issue came into force only in 2018.
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Advancing the Cause of Advance Directives
Archives of Internal Medicine, 1992The case of Nancy Cruzan has been described, discussed, and analyzed in the medical literature,1-12most recently in this issue of theArchivesby Fairman.13We concur with Fairman's conclusion, shared by most commentators, that the Cruzan case will encourage the use of advance directives.
Peter Singer, Mark Siegler
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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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Advance Directives among Nursing Home Residents with Mild, Moderate, and Advanced Dementia.
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2018OBJECTIVE To describe prevalence and content of AD documentation among NH residents by dementia stage. BACKGROUND The prevalence of advance directives (ADs) among nursing home (NH) residents with mild, moderate, and advanced dementia remains unclear.
J. Tjia, M. Dharmawardene, J. Givens
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Dementia and advance directives: some empirical and normative concerns
Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018The authors of the paper ‘Advance euthanasia directives: a controversial case and its ethical implications’ articulate concerns and reasons with regard to the conduct of euthanasia in persons with dementia based on advance directives.
K. Jongsma, M. Kars, J. V. van Delden
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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 ...
Ann C. Hurley, Veronica F. Rempusheski
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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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