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Exploring the Motivations for Completing Advance Care Directives: A Qualitative Study of Majority/Minority Israeli People Without Dementia

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2022
BackgroundCompleting advance directives has been declared an essential instrument for preserving and respecting the autonomy and preferences for end-of-life care of people living with dementia.
Perla Werner   +2 more
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A DIRECT ADVANCE ON ADVANCE DIRECTIVES [PDF]

open access: yesBioethics, 2010
ABSTRACTAdvance directives (ADs), which are also sometimes referred to as ‘living wills’, are statements made by a person that indicate what treatment she should not be given in the event that she is not competent to consent or refuse at the future moment in question.
openaire   +2 more sources

Models of advance directives in mental health care: stakeholder views [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
<i>Objective</i>: The aim of this study was to examine perceptions of the place of advance directives in mental health care. <i>Methods</i>: Postal survey of stakeholders was carried out to assess their views on different ...
Garner, Helen C.   +8 more
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Perspectives of Korean Patients, Families, Physicians and Nurses on Advance Directives

open access: yesAsian Nursing Research, 2010
The purpose of this study was to explore the perspectives of lung cancer patients, their families, physicians and nurses on advance directives. Methods: The study employed a comparative descriptive design.
Jia Lee, PhD, RN, Ki Hyun Kim, MA, RN
doaj   +1 more source

Project DECIDE, part 1: increasing the amount of valid advance directives in people with Alzheimer’s disease by offering advance care planning—a prospective double-arm intervention study

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Everybody has the right to decide whether to receive specific medical treatment or not and to provide their free, prior and informed consent to do so.
Stefanie Baisch   +19 more
doaj   +1 more source

Association between knowledge and attitudes towards advance directives in emergency services

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Implementing the routine consultation of patient advance directives in hospital emergency departments and emergency medical services has become essential, given that advance directives constitute the frame of reference for care personalisation
Silvia Poveda-Moral   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nurses’ perceptions of advance directives

open access: yesAtención Primaria, 2014
Objective: To identify nurses perceptions of Advance Directives (AD) and to analyse the influence of experience with AD on their perception. Material and methods: Quantitative, descriptive, correlational study conducted in a hospital in central Portugal ...
Ernestina Silva   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance directives among community-dwelling stroke survivors.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2023
ObjectiveAdvance directives (ADs) are integral to health care, allowing patients to specify surrogate decision-makers and treatment preferences in case of loss of capacity.
Soumya Gupta   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advance research directives: avoiding double standards

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2021
Background Advance research directives (ARD) have been suggested as a means by which to facilitate research with incapacitated subjects, in particular in the context of dementia research.
Bert Heinrichs
doaj   +1 more source

How Can Be Increased the Accessibility and Effectiveness of Advance Directives?

open access: yesStudia 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
doaj   +1 more source

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