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Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment for Nursing Home Residents with Dementia [PDF]

, 2015
Purpose Many nursing home (NH) residents with dementia receive burdensome, aggressive treatments at the end of life (EOL). The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatments (POLSTs) paradigm is a strategy to enhance EOL care.
Bradway, Christine, Ersek, Mary, Hickman, Susan E., Kim, Hyejin   +3 more
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Angels of mercy?:The legal and professional implications of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment by nurses in England and Wales [PDF]

, 2012
In circumstances where life-sustaining treatment appears merely to be drawing out the inevitable, it is usual practice for the healthcare team to withdraw aggressive life-sustaining measures, once agreement is reached with the patient and their family ...
Birchley, Giles
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The effects of hospice care on healthcare expenditure among cancer patients

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Purpose It is necessary to estimate the hospice usage and hospice-related cost for entire cancer patients using nationwide cohort data to establish a suitable ethical and cultural infrastructure.
Hoyol Jhang, Wonjeong Jeong, Hyun-Soo Zhang, Dong-Woo Choi, Hyejung Kang, Sohee Park   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Doctors' knowledge of the law on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment [PDF]

, 2014
Objectives To examine the level of knowledge of doctors about the law on withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack decision-making capacity, and factors associated with a higher level of knowledge.
Cartwright, Colleen, Parker, Malcolm, White, Ben, Williams, Gail, Willmott, Lindy   +4 more
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Navigating communication with families during withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care: a qualitative descriptive study in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]

, 2017
Aims and objectives. To explore how nurses navigate communication with families during withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care. Background.
Akroute, Bloomer, Bloomer, Coombs, Coombs, Coombs, Efstathiou, Endacott, Griffith, Lambert, Liamputtong, Mitchell, Moretti, O'Toole, Psirides, Ranse, Ranse, Scheunemann, Schneider, Truog, Vanderspank-Wright, Wilkin   +21 more
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Frequency of Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Therapy for Perceived Poor Neurologic Prognosis

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
OBJECTIVES:. To measure the frequency of withdrawal of life-sustaining therapy for perceived poor neurologic prognosis among decedents in hospitals of different sizes and teaching statuses. DESIGN:. We performed a multicenter, retrospective cohort study.
Alexis Steinberg, MD, Benjamin S. Abella, MD, MPhil, Emily J. Gilmore, MD, David Y. Hwang, MD, Niki Kennedy, BA, Winnie Lau, MD, Isabelle Mullen, BSc, Nidhi Ravishankar, MD, Charlotte F. Tisch, BA, Adam Waddell, MD, David J. Wallace, MD, MPH, Qiang Zhang, BA, Jonathan Elmer, MD, MSc   +12 more
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You Can\u27t Be Any Poorer Than Dead : Difficulties in Recognizing Artificial Nutrition and Hydration as Medical Treatments [PDF]

, 1994
The President\u27s Commission Report Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment comes down squarely in favor of two propositions: 1) artificial provision of nutrition and hydration are medical treatments, and 2) as such, these medical treatments may be
Heaney, Stephen J.
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Can primary palliative care education change life-sustaining treatment intensity of older adults at the end of life? A retrospective study

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Palliative care education has been carried out in some hospitals and palliative care has gradually developed in mainland China. However, the clinical research is sparse and whether primary palliative care education influence treatment ...
Qian Liu, Mingzhao Qin, Jian Zhou, Hui Zheng, Weiping Liu, Qi Shen   +5 more
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Carcinomas and Carcinoid Tumors of the Lungs and Bronchi in Children and Adolescents: The EXPeRT Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Sabine Irtan, Yves Reguerre, Malgorzata Krawczyk, Ewa Bien, Tal Ben‐Ami, Maja Cesen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Dominik T. Schneider, Abbas Agaimy, Constantin Lapa, Hubert Ducou le Pointe, Rainer Claus, Catherine Daniel, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of advance directives on the variability between intensivists in the decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment

Critical Care, 2020
Background There is wide variability between intensivists in the decisions to forgo life-sustaining treatment (DFLST). Advance directives (ADs) allow patients to communicate their end-of-life wishes to physicians.
Margot Smirdec, Mercé Jourdain, Virginie Guastella, Céline Lambert, Jean-Christophe Richard, Laurent Argaud, Samir Jaber, Kada Klouche, Anne Medard, Jean Reignier, Jean-Philippe Rigaud, Jean-Marc Doise, Russell Chabanne, Bertrand Souweine, Jeremy Bourenne, Julie Delmas, Pierre-Marie Bertrand, Philippe Verdier, Jean-Pierre Quenot, Cecile Aubron, Nathanael Eisenmann, Pierre Asfar, Alexandre Fratani, Jean Dellamonica, Nicolas Terzi, Jean-Michel Constantin, Axelle Van Lander, Renaud Guerin, Bruno Pereira, Alexandre Lautrette   +29 more
doaj   +1 more source