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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 +5 more
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Medisinsk behandling og bindende forhåndsønsker- Noe for Norge? : En oversikt og diskusjon om verdien av forhåndsønsker og pasientens rett til å oppnevne stedfortredende beslutningstaker [PDF]
, 2009 A patient’s opportunity to affect and participate in decision-making with regard to their own medical care is considered important. Most patients want some control over their medical care, including or even especially, when they are too sick to ...
Løitegård, Kjetil
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman +8 more
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BMC Nursing, 2022 Background End-of-life care can be a difficult and challenging process for critical care nurses in intensive care units (ICUs) due to the care plan shifts from providing life-sustaining measures to end-of-life care.
Mu-Hsing Ho +4 more
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Advance directives and advance agreements [PDF]
British Journal of Psychiatry, 2005 The paper by Amering et al ([2005][1]) adds to the growing literature on advance directives. The main difficulty with advance directives seems to be that with the available training programmes very few service users can be enthused to draft one.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior +7 more
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Ulysses’ crew or Circe? – the implications of advance directives in mental health for psychiatrists [PDF]
, 2004 No abstract ...
Dresser, Homer
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash +4 more
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Primary Healthcare NZ Nurses’ experiences of Advance Directives: Understanding Their Potential Role
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2013 Advance directives are one aspect of advance care planning designed to improve end of life care. The New Zealand Nurses Organisation released their first mission statement in 2010 concerning advance directives suggesting an increase in the use of these ...
Raewyn Davidson +2 more
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Advance health directives: competing perceptions, intentions and use by patients and doctors in Queensland [PDF]
, 2013 This paper reports on mixed method empirical research undertaken with individuals who have completed advance health directives ('principals') and doctors who have either attested to the principal's capacity when the document was completed or been called ...
Purser, Kelly +4 more
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