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BMC Medical Ethics, 2023 Background This study aimed to identify the healthcare providers’ experience and perspectives toward end-of-life care decisions focusing on end-of-life discussion and physician’s order of life-sustaining treatment documentation in Korea which are major ...
Hyeon-Su Im +13 more
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Awareness of Nursing Students’ Biomedical Ethics and Attitudes toward Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment [PDF]
Child Health Nursing Research, 2017 Purpose: This study was done to analyze nursing students’ attitudes to life-sustaining treatment by measuring their awareness of biomedical ethics and resulting attitude toward withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.
Geun Myun Kim +2 more
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Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care, 2022 Objective To explore patients’ and physicians’ perspectives on a decision-making conversation for life-sustaining treatment, based on the Danish model of the American Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.
Lone Doris Tuesen +4 more
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Preferences for life-sustaining treatment in Korean adults: a cross-sectional study
BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives Life-sustaining treatment is any treatment that serves to prolong life without reversing the underlying medical conditions, and includes cardiopulmonary resuscitation, mechanical ventilation, haemodialysis and left ventricular assist devices ...
HyunChul Youn +5 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background Amidst rapid population aging, South Korea enacted the Well-dying Act, late among advanced countries, but public opinion on the act is not still clear.
Il Yun +3 more
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The attitudes about life-sustaining treatment among cardiac surgery ICU patients and their families
Frontiers in Surgery, 2023 PurposeTo investigate the attitudes among cardiac surgery ICU patients and their families regarding life-sustaining treatment.MethodsA total of 172 pairs of patients in the cardiac surgery ICU of Nanjing First Hospital and their family members were ...
Si Sun, Hao Zhang, XiaoYan Xiong
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Preventing Life-Sustaining Treatment by Default [PDF]
The Annals of Family Medicine, 2011 Many physicians will at some point care for patients who will receive life-sustaining treatment by default, because there are no instructions available from the patient as to what kind of care is preferred, and because surrogates are likely to ask for everything to be done when they do not know a patient's preferences.
Ursula K, Braun, Laurence B, McCullough
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BMC Emergency Medicine, 2011 Background Withdrawing and withholding life-support therapy (WH/WD) are undeniably integrated parts of medical activity. However, Emergency Department (ED) might not be the most appropriate place to give end-of life (EOL) care; the legal aspects and ...
Zekraoui Aicha +9 more
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A Comparison of Methods to Communicate Treatment Preferences in Nursing Facilities: Traditional Practices versus the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program [PDF]
, 2010 Background Traditional methods to communicate life-sustaining treatment preferences are largely ineffective. The Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Program offers an alternative approach, but comparative data are lacking ...
Hammes, Bernard J. +5 more
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Withdrawal of Life-Sustaining Treatment from Children: Experiences of Nurses Caring for the Children [PDF]
Child Health Nursing Research, 2017 Purpose: The purpose of this study was to describe feelings and actions of nurses following withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from children being cared for by the nurses.
So Yeon Park, Hyeon Ok Ju, Ga Eon Lee
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