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A REVIEW ON DECISION PROTOCOL AND FATWA IN MALAYSIA DISCUSSING ISSUE OF WITHHOLDING AND WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT IN INTENSIVE CARE UNIT

Malaysian Journal of Syariah and Law, 2021
Withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatments is one of the hot topics discussing in intensive care unit as most of the death occurs as a result of it.
Muhamad Rafiqi Hehsan, Wan Fadzlina Wan Muhd Shukeri   +1 more
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Completion rate of physician orders for life-sustaining treatment for patients with metastatic or recurrent cancer: a preliminary, cross-sectional study

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background “End of life” is a difficult topic of conversation in East Asian cultures, even among patients and doctors who share a good rapport. In 2016, the Hospice, Palliative Care, and Life-Sustaining Treatment Decision-Making Act, which took the form ...
Ju Won Kim, Jung Yoon Choi, Won Jin Jang, Yoon Ji Choi, Youn Seon Choi, Sang Won Shin, Yeul Hong Kim, Kyong Hwa Park   +7 more
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Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in a patient's best interests: Australian judicial deliberations [PDF]

, 2014
•Intractable disputes about withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults who lack capacity are rare but challenging. Judicial resolution may be needed in some of these cases.
Smith, Malcolm, White, Ben, Wilkinson, Dominic, Willmott, Lindy   +3 more
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Implementation of Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment in nursing homes in California: evaluation of a novel statewide dissemination mechanism. [PDF]

, 2012
BackgroundImplementing Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) forms aims to improve communication of life-sustaining treatment preferences across care venues.
Citko, Judy, Diamant, Allison, Gonzalez, Victor, Lorenz, Karl, O'Malley, Kate, Tarn, Derjung M, Wenger, Neil S   +6 more
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Limitation of life-sustaining treatment and patient involvement in decision-making: a retrospective study of a Danish COVID-19 patient cohort

Scandinavian Journal of Trauma, Resuscitation and Emergency Medicine, 2021
Background The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the risk of an extensive overload of the healthcare systems have elucidated the need to make decisions on the level of life-sustaining treatment for patients requiring hospitalisation. The purpose of the
Hanne Irene Jensen, Sevim Ozden, Gitte Schultz Kristensen, Mihnaz Azizi, Siri Aas Smedemark, Christian Backer Mogensen   +5 more
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Hemodialysis as a life-sustaining treatment at the end of life

Kidney Research and Clinical Practice, 2018
The Act on Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients in Hospice and Palliative Care or at the End of Life came into effect on February 4th, 2018, in South Korea.
Sung Joon Shin, Jae Hang Lee
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The Current Status of Medical Decision-Making for Dying Patients in a Medical Intensive Care Unit: A Single-Center Study [PDF]

Korean Journal of Critical Care Medicine, 2014
BACKGROUND: Many terminally ill patients die while receiving life-sustaining treatment. Recently, the discussion of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care units (ICUs) has increased.
Kyunghwa Shin, Jeong Ha Mok, Sang Hee Lee, Eun Jung Kim, Na Ri Seok, Sun Suk Ryu, Myoung Nam Ha, Kwangha Lee   +7 more
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Nurses as withdrawers of life sustaining treatment in paediatric intensive care [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Withdrawal of life saving medical treatment is a common modality of death within UK paediatric intensive care units (PICUs). The majority of treatment withdrawals are carried out by medical staff, usually the consultant in charge of the child'
Birchley, Giles, Cejer, Bev
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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Increase Completion and Documentation of Advanced Directives in the ICU at a U.S. Community Teaching Hospital

Critical Care Explorations, 2021
Objectives:. Advance directives can help guide care in the ICU. As a healthcare quality improvement initiative, we sought to increase the percentage of patients with a healthcare power of attorney and/or practitioner orders for life-sustaining treatment ...
Kristin L. Walter, MD, MS, Hillarie E. Joehl, MS, ACNP-BC, ACHPN, RN, Taha Alrifai, MD, Thomas G. Varghese, MD, Matthew J. Tyler, MD   +4 more
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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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