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The development of a questionnaire to assess the attitudes of older people to end-of-life issues (AEOLI)

, 2005
Objectives: To develop an end-of-life attitudes questionnaire for use in a large community-based sample of older people. Design: Nominal groups and standardization of questions.
Blizard, R., Blanchard, M., King, M., Addington-Hall, J., Catt, S., Zis, M.   +5 more
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End-of-life care in the United States: policy issues and model programs of integrated care

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2003
Background: End-of-life care financing and delivery in the United States is fragmented and uncoordinated, with little integration of acute and long-term care services.
Joshua M. Wiener, Jane Tilly
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Refusal of Oral Feeding and Nutrition or a Way to Speed Up Dying Without Asking Permission: Voluntarily Stopping of Eating and Drinking in the End of Life

Revista Iberoamericana de Bioética
Terminally ill patients experience conditions of life that can become unbearable resulting in the wish to end their life prematurely. One way to end one’s life prematurely is by voluntary stopping of eating and drinking, however this can also be ...
Cíntia Pinho-Reis, Manuel Luís Capelas
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A Same-Sex Couple Copes With End-of-Life Issues: A Case Materials Guide

MedEdPORTAL, 2013
Medical students in the United States receive a median of only 5 hours of instruction on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender–related health topics during medical school.
Colby Croft, Jonathan Pletcher, Valerie L. Fulmer, Robert C.T. Steele, Hollis Day, Carla L. Spagnoletti   +5 more
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The preparedness of Hong Kong medical students towards advance directives and end-of-life issues

, 2010
Objectives: To explore the preparedness of medical students towards advance directives and related end-of-life issues, and to examine background factors such as knowledge, attitudes, and experience concerning advance directives and related end-of-life ...
Cheung, CY, Choi, WL, Siu, MW, Yu, PH, Wong, JG, Cheung, TY, Chiu, MM, Kwok, TY, Ting, WM, Chua, SE, Lo, TK   +10 more
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European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) framework for palliative sedation: an ethical discussion

BMC Palliative Care, 2010
Background The aim of this paper is to critically discuss some of the ethically controversial issues regarding continuous deep palliative sedation at the end of life that are addressed in the EAPC recommended framework for the use of sedation in ...
Juth Niklas, Lindblad Anna, Lynöe Niels, Sjöstrand Manne, Helgesson Gert   +4 more
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Communication challenges in end-of-life decisions

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
With the progress in healthcare over recent decades and a growing life expectancy, discussions and decisions regarding end-of-life issues have become increasingly important. Especially in intensive care and emergency medicine there is a growing need of
Christoph Becker, Katharina Beck, Alessia Vincent, Sabina Hunziker   +3 more
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Ethical issues in the end of life care for cancer patients in iran.

Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2013
In the recent years, advances in medical technologies for end stage cancer patients' care have affected the end-of-life decision-making in clinical practice and exposed oncologists to serious ethical dilemmas.
Mina Mobasher, Nouzar Nakhaee, Mamak Tahmasebi, Farzaneh Zahedi, Bagher Larijani   +4 more
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End-of-Life Issues in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. [PDF]

Tex Heart Inst J, 2023
Garcia MAG, Grouls A.
europepmc   +1 more source

LIVING WITH COPD AND FACING DEATH:INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION NEEDS ABOUT END-OF-LIFE ISSUES

, 2014
Existing studies suggest that patients with COPD would like to know more about end-of-life issues such as prognosis, advance directives, intubation/mechanical ventilation and what dying might be like.
Dowson, Lee, Forbes, Karen, Hakkak, Frances   +2 more
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