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Advance Directives Under State Law and Judicial Decisions (Medical Decision-Making and the ‛Right to Die’ After Cruzan) [PDF]

, 1991
In the decision of the United States Supreme Court in Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health on June 25, 1990, a majority of the Court announced that it will leave to the states the question of what legal requirements may be imposed on ...
Areen, Judith C.
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Real‐World Pediatric Blinatumomab Administration: Access to Outpatient Care Delivery and Impact of a Hospital‐Dispensed Model

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Blinatumomab has been shown to be highly effective for patients with pediatric B‐ALL and has recently become standard of care therapy. Due to its past use in the clinical trial setting, there is limited information available about real‐world administration.
Katelyn Oranges, Kelly A. Duffy, Sara McDonough, Evelyn Kurpiewski, R. Jennifer Randall, Allison Barz Leahy, Haley M. Newman, Joyce P. Lee, Stephen P. Hunger, Anne F. Reilly, David T. Teachey, Susan R. Rheingold, Daniel J. Zheng   +12 more
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Willingness to develop an advance directive: perspectives of older persons at a national referral hospital in Uganda

BMC Medical Ethics
Background Understanding the treatment preferences of terminally ill patients is critical for the provision of quality care at the end of life. However, there is limited literature on the perspectives and willingness to develop advance directives among ...
Catherine Alupo, Erisa S. Mwaka, Betty Kwagala, Joseph Ochieng   +3 more
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Clinical Insights Into Hypercalcemia of Malignancy in Childhood

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hypercalcemia of malignancy (HCM) is a rare but life‐threatening metabolic emergency in children that occurs in less than 1% of pediatric cancer cases, with a reported incidence ranging from 0.4% to 1.0% across different studies. While it is observed in 10%–20% of adult malignancies, pediatric HCM remains relatively uncommon.
Hüseyin Anıl Korkmaz
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ADVANCE DIRECTIVES IN ROMANIA AND LITHUANIA

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai. Philosophia, 2019
Advance directives, a set of written instructions that a person gives that specify what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions due to illness or incapacity, are a well-implemented tool in America, but few ...
Ştefana Maria MOISĂ, Angela Mariana ENACHE, Andrada PÂRVU, Silvia DUMITRAȘ, Rodica GRAMMA, Gabriel ROMAN, Beatrice IOAN   +6 more
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Improving Advance Directive Use Through Provider Education at Newtown Primary Care [PDF]

, 2018
Nationally, there seems to be a discrepancy between a patient\u27s desire to talk about end-of-life care and their act of doing so. An advance directive is a legal document that enables an individual facilitate an end-of-life care discussion with someone.
Wong, Timothy
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Survival Outcomes and Complications Among Canadian Children With Retinoblastoma: A Population‐Based Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Retinoblastoma (RB) is the most common pediatric ocular cancer, yet population‐based data on survival and risk factors remain limited. This study aimed to describe survival in a large national RB cohort and identify predictors of death and complications.
Samuel Sassine, Ofélie Trudeau‐Ferrin, Caroline Laverdière, Patrick Hamel, Rosanne Superstein, Bénédicte Koukoui, Carole Provost, Paul C. Nathan, Vijay Ramaswamy, Furqan Shaikh, Brenda Gallie, Ashwin Mallipatna, Stephanie Kletke, Helen Dimaras, Hallie Coltin   +14 more
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Preferences for Advance Directives in Korea

Nursing Research and Practice, 2012
Background. The goal of advance directives is to help patients retain their dignity and autonomy by making their own decisions regarding end-stage medical treatment. The purpose of this study was to examine preferences of advance directives among general
So-Sun Kim, Won-Hee Lee, JooYoung Cheon, Jung-Eun Lee, KiSun Yeo, JuHee Lee   +5 more
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Advance Directives and End-of-Life Care: Completion, Conversations, and Concerns of Burlington Housing Authority Residents [PDF]

, 2011
Introduction: •An Advance Directive is a document that allows patients to declare their wishes regarding medical care and decision making should they become unable to communicate their preferences due to an accident or illness.
Clark, Katherine, Davis, Gerald, Fitz-Gerald, Gwendolyn, Frost, Claire, Goldstein, Benjamin, Kalivoda, Eric, Persing, Sarah, Ray, Damian, Russell, Sarah, Rutenbeck, Claire   +9 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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