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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
doaj   +1 more source

Safety and Effectiveness of a High‐Dose, Tailored Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Protocol: A Joint Pediatric Hematology and Cardiac ICU Quality Improvement Initiative Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric thromboembolism is increasingly encountered in critical care. Systemic thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) facilitates vessel or valve patency, yet pediatric‐specific protocols remain undefined, and safety concerns persist. Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of a tailored, prolonged systemic tPA
Eran Shostak, Oded Gilad, Yael Feinstein, Sigal Nakav, Ofer Schiller, Joanne Yacobovich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advance Directives: The New Zealand Context

, 2005
Advance directives convey consumers' wishes about accepting or refusing future treatment if they become incompetent. They are designed to communicate a competent consumer's perspective regarding the preferred treatment, should the consumer later become ...
Diesfeld, Kate, McCallin, Antoinette, Wareham, Pauline   +2 more
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Global Efforts to Reduce Paediatric Cancer Care Disparities in Radiotherapy: A Decade Change

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background We present an update on the status, needs and challenges faced by paediatric imaging and radiotherapy (RT) programmes globally after a previous survey conducted by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 10 years prior. Methods We developed and distributed a 121‐question survey to radiation oncologists, medical physicists and ...
Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Daniel J. Indelicato, Jeanette Parkes, Natia Esiashvili, Josué Hernández Benítez, Miriam Mikhail‐Lette, Olivera Cirajc Bjelac, Daniel Berger, Eva Ciurana, Yavuz Anacak, Lisbeth Cordero‐Mendez   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advance Directives, Dementia, and "The Someone Else Problem"

, 1999
Advance directives permit competent adult patients to provide guidance regarding their care in the event that they lose the capacity to make medical decisions.
DeGrazia, David
core   +1 more source

Nurses’ Opinions on the Advance Directives for Care of Terminal Stage in Songklanagarind Hospital.

Journal of Health Science and Medical Research (JHSMR), 2013
Objective: 1) To study nurses’ opinions on advance directives. 2) To compare nurses’ opinions on advance directives for care of terminal stage among nurses with different proficiency levels.
Uaiporn Pattrapakdikul, Sirin Sastranuruk   +1 more
doaj  

Why have Advance Directives failed in Spain?

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
Background In Spain, there has been great effort by lawmakers to put Advance Directives (ADs) into practice since 2002. At the same time, the field of bioethics has been on the rise, a discipline that has spurred debate on the right of patients to ...
Benjamín Herreros, María Benito, Pablo Gella, Emanuele Valenti, Beatriz Sánchez, Tayra Velasco   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Survival After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Diamond–Blackfan Anemia Syndrome: The Role of Iron Overload—A Systematic Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We assessed the effect of iron overload (IO) on mortality and complications following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in patients with Diamond–Blackfan anemia syndrome (DBAS) in a systematic review of individual participant data and cohort data from observational studies.
Geoffrey Z. L. Kuppens, Evangelia Kiakou, Lieke de Zwart, Maurizio Miano, Eduard J. van Beers, Marc Bierings, Marije Bartels   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence, clinical impact and associated patient-centred outcomes of advance directives in Swiss intensive care units: Results from the retrospective ADVISE Study

Swiss Medical Weekly
STUDY AIMS: Data on the usefulness of advance directives for end-of-life decision-making in intensive care units (ICUs) are scarce. The primary aim of the present study was to investigate the prevalence of advance directives in patients of two Swiss ...
Sira Maria Baumann, Dominik Vock, Paulina S. C. Kliem, Simon A. Amacher, Yasmin Erne, Pascale Grzonka, Sebastian Berger, Martin Lohri, Sabina Hunziker, Caroline E. Gebhard, Mathias Nebiker, Luca Cioccari, Raoul Sutter   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Situational Assessment of the Diagnostic Landscape and Organizational Readiness to Implement Next‐Generation Sequencing at Two Childhood Cancer Treatment Centers in Ghana

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Next‐generation sequencing (NGS) has emerged as a promising approach to improve diagnostic accuracy, but its feasibility in low‐ and middle‐income countries remains unknown. This study characterized the diagnostic landscape and assessed organizational readiness for NGS implementation at two childhood cancer treatment centers in Accra ...
Melissa Carvalho, Emmanuella Amoako, Nihad Salifu, Lily Gloria Tagoe, Yaw Bediako, Michelle Hermiston, Catherine Segbefia   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source