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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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Advance health directives: competing perceptions, intentions and use by patients and doctors in Queensland [PDF]

, 2013
This paper reports on mixed method empirical research undertaken with individuals who have completed advance health directives ('principals') and doctors who have either attested to the principal's capacity when the document was completed or been called ...
Purser, Kelly, Tilse, Cheryl, White, Ben, Willmott, Lindy, Wilson, Jill   +4 more
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Emergency surgery and Limitation of therapeutic effort in relation to neurologic deterioration in elderly patients – a survey of European surgeons [PDF]

, 2017
Background. In emergency surgery, a very heterogeneous approach is required in the decision making process, especially when considering the patient’s postoperative quality of life as well as medical, ethical, and legal factors.
Casas, Isidro M., Landaluce-Olavarria, Aitor, Mariani, Diego, Paduraru, Mihai, Pereira, Jorge, Ponchietti, Luca   +5 more
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Advance Directives

The Journal of Medicine, Law & Public Health
The use of an advance directive, when drafted in accordance with the MCA, allows a person the right to refuse specified treatment at a later stage of their life, should they become incapacitated.
Lisa Kachina Poku
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Advance directives in patients with head and neck cancer - status quo and factors influencing their creation

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Advance Care Planning including living wills and durable powers of attorney for healthcare is a highly relevant topic aiming to increase patient autonomy and reduce medical overtreatment.
Moritz Allner, Magdalena Gostian, Matthias Balk, Robin Rupp, Clarissa Allner, Konstantinos Mantsopoulos, Christoph Ostgathe, Heinrich Iro, Markus Hecht, Antoniu-Oreste Gostian   +9 more
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Advance healthcare directives [PDF]

Clinical Medicine, 2006
Dying was once a relatively straightforward affair. If you had a terminal illness or were mortally injured, there was little your doctor could do apart from relieve your suffering and comfort your relatives. Nature would take its inexorable course. Two things changed this simple process: first, the arrival of lifesupporting or life-extending measures ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Completion of Advance Directives: Do Social Work Preadmission Interviews Make a Difference? [PDF]

, 2007
Objectives: This study tests the efficacy of a preadmission, educational interview on advance directives, in this case, health care proxies (HCPs) offered to elective, orthopedic patients.
Byock, I., Campbell, D.T., Chambers, C.V., Csikai, E.L., Emanuel, L.L., Gordon, N.P., Haas, J.S., National Association of Social Workers., National Association of Social Workers., National Association of Social Workers., New York State Bar Association., New York State Department of Health., Patton, M.Q., Robertson, G.S., Trochim, W.M., U.S. General Accounting Office., Virmani, J., Vivian L. Stadel, Yvonne M. Johnson   +18 more
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