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The Indian Anaesthetists' Forum, 2005 Science and technology have offered medical therapies the potential to treat serious illnesses where once the medical professionals could only provide comfort. Physicians feel the need to aggressively fight against illness and death.
Dr. Anjum S. Joad
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End-of-Life Care, Not End-of-Life Spending [PDF]
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2018 exaly +3 more sources
BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Advance care planning (ACP), a process of communication about patients’ preferences for future medical care, should be initiated in a timely manner. Ideally situated for this initiation is the general practitioner (GP).
Julie Stevens +5 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background Little is known about the nature and intensity of palliative care needs of hospitalised older people. We aimed to describe the palliative care symptoms, concerns, and well-being of older people with frailty and complex care needs upon ...
Kim de Nooijer +4 more
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Suffering and the end of life [PDF]
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021 Relief of suffering is an important goal of medicine and aligns with the professional maxim of ‘do no harm’ and the bioethical principle of non‐maleficence. Capturing what individuals experience or third‐parties sense in terms of suffering is difficult, made harder in the patient who is too young or not able to tell us.
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2023 Background Advance care planning (ACP) is a process that enables individuals to define goals and preferences for their future care. It is particularly relevant for people with dementia and their family. Interactive tools, such as websites, that encourage
Charlèss Dupont +6 more
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Physician-related determinants of medical end-of-life decisions - A mortality follow-back study in Switzerland. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 BACKGROUND:Medical end-of-life decisions (MELD) and shared decision-making are increasingly important issues for a majority of persons at the end of life. Little is known, however, about the impact of physician characteristics on these practices.
Matthias Bopp +5 more
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Pharmacotherapy at the end-of-life [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2011 Older people reaching end-of-life status are particularly at risk from inter-related adverse effects of pharmacotherapy, including polypharmacy, inappropriate medications and adverse drug events. These adverse effects of pharmacotherapy may be highly detrimental, as well as highly expensive.
O'Mahony, Denis, O'Connor, Marie N
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The End of Life, The Ends of Life: An Anthropological View [PDF]
Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, 2012 All known human societies have a worldview that deserves to be called religion; all religions must explain death. Anthropologists study the diversity of religious systems, present and past, in order to understand what is common to humanity. Rather than starting from the view of a particular revelation or set of doctrines, the anthropologist tries to ...
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BMJ, 2005 Clinical decisions are increasingly shaped by legal judgments In July this year the court of appeal allowed the appeal of the General Medical Council (GMC) in the case of R (Burke) v the GMC,1 setting aside the high court declaration that the GMC guidance on withholding and withdrawing life prolonging treatment was unlawful and in breach of human ...
Samanta, Jo, Samanta, Ash
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