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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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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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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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Diretivas antecipadas: instrumento que assegura a vontade de morrer dignamente [PDF]
, 2012 This research was conducted a brief study of the advance directives instrument that can ensure the wishes of terminally ill patients to die with dignity.
Vieira Bomtempo, Tiago
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Advance directive and end-of-life care preferences among Chinese nursing home residents in Hong Kong [PDF]
, 2011 OBJECTIVES: The objectives of the present study were to describe the knowledge and preferences of Hong Kong Chinese older adults regarding advance directives and end-of-life care decisions, and to investigate the predictors of preferences for advance ...
Chan, CSY +8 more
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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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How do general practitioners conceptualise advance care planning in their practice? : a qualitative study [PDF]
, 2016 Objectives : To explore how GPs conceptualise advance care planning (ACP), based on their experiences with ACP in their practice. Methods : Five focus groups were held with 36 GPs. Discussions were analysed using a constant comparative method. Results :
Beernaert, Kim +5 more
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A narrative review of facilitating and inhibiting factors in advance care planning initiation in people with dementia [PDF]
, 2020 Purpose of the review: To identify and assess factors that affect the decisions to initiate advance care planning (ACP) amongst people living with dementia (PwD).Methods: A narrative review was conducted. A keyword search of Medline, CINAHL PsycINFO, and
Buchanan, Deans +3 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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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 +3 more
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