Advance Directives
The role of advance directives in end-of-life decisions in Austria: survey of intensive care physicians
... Only 73% of the intensive care physicians were found to consider advance directives as helpful in their deci- sion-making process. Our study does not show their motives in detail, so it remains unclear, ...
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Advance directives in France: do junior general practitioners want to improve their implementation and usage? A nationwide survey
... whose advance directives are only one mani- ...these directives are less an official form than a reflection process involving the physician-patient relationship [19], at least in countries were the ...
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Advance directives, proxy opinions, and treatment restrictions in patients with severe stroke
... Two factors further complicate the use of advance directives and proxy opinions in acute stroke patients. First, the ‘disability paradox’: the fact that patients often report greater happiness and quality ...
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A review and analysis of new Italian law 219/2017: ‘provisions for informed consent and advance directives treatment’
... and advance directives which act as tools for self-determination and the manifestation of the beliefs and preferences of persons unable to express their ...
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Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya
... The majority of patients in our study had obtained ter- tiary level education (78.04%). The proportion of pa- tients with tertiary education was higher in the people who did not complete advance directives ...
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Are advance directives helpful for good end of life decision making: a cross sectional survey of health professionals
... of advance directives (AD) as one of the potential solutions to protect a patient’ s rights, autonomy and dignity at the end of life have been widely discussed in recent ...Generally, advance ...
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Advance Directives in the Context of Uncertain Prognosis for Residents of Nursing Homes
... advanced directives of 182 residents of three LTC facilities in southern Ontario, ...completed advance directive within 3 months of death, most did not have a palliative designation or directive until a few ...
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Psychiatric Advance Directives: Pros, Cons, and Next Steps
... psychiatric advance directives among high users of crisis services and ...psychiatric advance directives: service provider issues and ...
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Survey of the general public's attitudes toward advance directives in Japan: How to respect patients' preferences
... undertake advance directives before dementia has reached advanced stages, in many cases, treatment preference made might not be respected because of patients' difficulties in expressing preferences and ...
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Advance directives and power of attorney for health care in the oldest-old – results of the AgeQualiDe study
... of advance directives (ADs) and power of attorney (POA) for health care in oldest-old individuals, our study adds significantly to the currently available ...have advance care documents in oldest-old ...
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Advance directives as a tool to respect patients’ values and preferences: discussion on the case of Alzheimer’s disease
... of advance directives in patients with dementia, changes in personality and interests, as well as loss of memory, loss of the ability to reconstruct a biographical history, and loss of the ability to fully ...
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Critical appraisal of advance directives given by patients with fatal acute stroke: an observational cohort study
... We identified all patients admitted with a diagnosis of ischemic stroke or spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) who died during their hospitalization on our 29- bed comprehensive stroke unit (SU) from January 2011 ...
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Inapplicability of advance directives in a paternalistic setting: the case of a post-communist health system
... Discussion: The question of ’ medically futile ’ interventions and pointless life-prolonging treatment has been discussed by several authors. Dutch physicians call such interventions ‘medisch zinloos’ (senseless), and ...
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Federal Law on Advance Directives
... The federal law does not grant consumers new rights; those specific rights are spelled out in state law. The federal law requires hospitals and other providers (including psychiatric hospitals and other mental health ...
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The Effect of Educational Intervention regarding Advance Care Planning for Advance Directives
... ally, advance directives (AD), which are legislated in the West, are not legislated in Japan [13] and there is no effective, legal method of carrying out the wishes of an elderly ...
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Advance directives from haematology departments: the patient’s freedom of choice and communication with families. A qualitative analysis of 35 written documents
... It is first important to define the terminology used, as this research was conducted in France. The legal status of health care proxy (HCP) and advance directives (ADs) in France differ from that of other ...
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Costs and advance directives at the end of life: a case of the ‘Coaching Older Adults and Carers to have their preferences Heard (COACH)’ trial
... Finally, Advance Care Planning (ACP) has been gain- ing prominence in Australia due to a recent shift from documentation towards the process of ACP ...[77]. Advance Directives are only a small part ...
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Physician perspectives and compliance with patient advance directives: the role external factors play on physician decision making
... Prior to the 1970s, medical care of the seriously ill was generally physician-directed by the ethical principles of beneficence and non-malfeasance [1]. Physicians (and other care providers) often provided treatments ...
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Factors associated with the designation of a health care proxy and writing advance directives for patients suffering from haematological malignancies
... Over the last few decades, patients’ rights have been enforced in many parts of the world by acts of law [1-4]. Nevertheless, their implementation within hospital units varies [5-7] according to the pathology and ...
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Psychiatric Advance Directives
... Recovery and self-determination don’t have to wait for the system to improve. The good news is that Psychiatric Advance Directives and Health Care Powers of Attorney are legal and medical documents that can ...
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