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Design of the Advance Directives Cohort: a study of end-of-life decision-making focusing on Advance Directives

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, Kaspers Pam J, Pasman H, Rurup Mette L, van Wijmen Matthijs PS   +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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A review and analysis of new Italian law 219/2017: ‘provisions for informed consent and advance directives treatment’

BMC Medical Ethics, 2019
In December 2017, Law 219/2017, ‘Provisions for informed consent and advance directives’, was approved in Italy. The law is the culmination of a year-long process and the subject of heated debate throughout Italian society.
M. Di Paolo, Federica Gori, L. Papi, E. Turillazzi   +3 more
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Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2020
Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and end-of-life care among minority adults.
M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan-Hejazi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Completion of Advance Directives and Documented Care Preferences During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Pandemic

JAMA Network Open, 2020
This cohort study examines changes in completion of and expressed preferences on an online advanced directive platform during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
C. Auriemma, S. Halpern, Jeremy M. Asch, Matthew Van Der Tuyn, D. Asch   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Advance directives in European long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional survey

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2019
Background End-of-life care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are the focus of growing attention in Europe, due to rapidly increasing number of older persons living in LTCFs.
P. Andreasen, U. Finne-Soveri, L. Deliens, L. Van den Block, S. Payne, G. Gambassi, B. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, T. Smets, E. Lilja, V. Kijowska, K. Szczerbińska   +10 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Psychiatric Advance Directives Under the Convention on the Rights of Persons With Disabilities: Why Advance Instructions Should Be Able to Override Current Preferences

Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2019
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are documents by means of which mental health service users can make known their preferences regarding treatment in a future mental health crisis. Many states with explicit legal provisions for PADs have ratified the
M. Scholten, A. Gieselmann, J. Gather, J. Vollmann   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source