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Advance Directives and Withdrawal of Dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan
, 1996 OBJECTIVE: To determine the role of advance directives in decisions to withdraw chronic dialysis in the United States, Germany, and Japan. DESIGN: Survey by questionnaire.
Sehgal, Ashwini R. +5 more
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Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra, 2017 Background: Advance directives could be an important instrument to support a person’s will once he/she is not able to consent anymore – if composed competently. A survey was conducted to identify the level of knowledge concerning possibilities and limits
Martina Schmidhuber +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Survivorship care plans (SCPs) summarize cancer treatment and guide risk‐based follow‐up for cancer survivors, yet remain difficult to create, share, and use. Stakeholder perspectives are needed to inform usable approaches.
Molly S. Talman +4 more
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Advance Directives for Non-Therapeutic Dementia Research: Some Ethical and Policy Considerations
, 1998 This paper explores the use of advance directives in clinical dementia research. The focus is on advance consent to participation of demented patients in non-therapeutic research involving more than minimal risks and/or burdens.
Berghmans, R. L. P., Berghmans, R.L.P.
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A Multigenerational Study on the Correlation of Values and Advance Directives
, 1992 The development of the Values History instrument for use in advance directive decision making has raised the question of the importance of values in eliciting advance directives.
Gorenflo, Daniel W. +3 more
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Hospital Policy on Advance Directives: Do Institutions Ask Patients About Living Wills?
, 1989 Hospitals throughout the United States were surveyed in 1988 to determine their policies on advance directives, including living wills and durable power of attorney documents.
McCrary, S. Van, Botkin, Jeffrey R.
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Medical and family caregivers' conceptions in the face of advance directives
Revista de Enfermagem da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, 2019 Objective: To understand how doctors and family caregivers understand the applicability of the Advance Directives to end-of-life care. Method: qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research, conducted with seven doctors of a university hospital in ...
Silvana Bastos Cogo +4 more
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Advance healthcare directives [PDF]
Clinical Medicine, 2006 Dying was once a relatively straightforward affair. If you had a terminal illness or were mortally injured, there was little your doctor could do apart from relieve your suffering and comfort your relatives. Nature would take its inexorable course. Two things changed this simple process: first, the arrival of lifesupporting or life-extending measures ...
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida +6 more
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Advance Directives Under State Law and Judicial Decisions
, 1991 ...To date, those state courts and legislatures that have addressed the issue have not only supported advance directives, they have, with the exception of Missouri, been very deferential to family decision-making even in the absence of written directives.
Areen, Judith, Annas, George J.
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