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Declarations by patients, made in advance of a situation in which they may be incompetent to decide about their own care, stating their treatment preferences or authorizing a third party to make decisions for them. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

Compliance by health personnel or proxies with the stipulations of ADVANCE DIRECTIVES (or similar directives such as RESUSCITATION ORDERS) when patients are unable to direct their own care.

Written, witnessed declarations in which persons request that if they become disabled beyond reasonable expectation of recovery, they be allowed to die rather than be kept alive by extraordinary means. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

Discussions with patients and/or their representatives about the goals and desired direction of the patient's care, particularly end-of-life care, in the event that the patient is or becomes incompetent to make decisions.

Care provided patients requiring extraordinary therapeutic measures in order to sustain and prolong life.

A person authorized to decide or act for another person, for example, a person having durable power of attorney.

Withholding or withdrawal of a particular treatment or treatments, often (but not necessarily) life-prolonging treatment, from a patient or from a research subject as part of a research protocol. The concept is differentiated from REFUSAL TO TREAT, where the emphasis is on the health professional's or health facility's refusal to treat a patient or group of patients when the patient or the patient's representative requests treatment. Withholding of life-prolonging treatment is usually indexed only with EUTHANASIA, PASSIVE, unless the distinction between withholding and withdrawing treatment, or the issue of withholding palliative rather than curative treatment, is discussed.

A legal concept for individuals who are designated to act on behalf of persons who are considered incapable of acting in their own behalf, e.g., minors and persons found to be not mentally competent.

The ability to understand the nature and effect of the act in which the individual is engaged. (From Black's Law Dictionary, 6th ed).

Instructions issued by a physician pertaining to the institution, continuation, or withdrawal of life support measures. The concept includes policies, laws, statutes, decisions, guidelines, and discussions that may affect the issuance of such orders.

Self-directing freedom and especially moral independence. An ethical principle holds that the autonomy of persons ought to be respected. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

Medical and nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness.

The kind of action or activity proper to the judiciary, particularly its responsibility for decision making.

The purpose of this 1990 federal act is to assure that individuals receiving health care services will be given an opportunity to participate in and direct health care decisions affecting themselves. Under this act, hospitals, health care agencies, and health maintenance organizations are responsible for developing patient information for distribution. The information must include patients' rights, advance directives, living wills, ethics committees' consultation and education functions, limited medical treatment (support/comfort care only), mental health treatment, resuscitation, restraints, surrogate decision making and transfer of care. (from JCAHO, Lexicon, 1994)

The right of the patient or the patient's representative to make decisions with regard to the patient's dying.

The absence of a useful purpose or useful result in a diagnostic procedure or therapeutic intervention. The situation of a patient whose condition will not be improved by treatment or instances in which treatment preserves permanent unconsciousness or cannot end dependence on intensive medical care. (From Ann Intern Med 1990 Jun 15;112(12):949)

The principles of professional conduct concerning the rights and duties of the physician, relations with patients and fellow practitioners, as well as actions of the physician in patient care and interpersonal relations with patient families.

The act or practice of killing or allowing death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy, i.e., in order to release a person from incurable disease, intolerable suffering, or undignified death. (from Beauchamp and Walters, Contemporary Issues in Bioethics, 5th ed)

The state or condition of being a human individual accorded moral and/or legal rights. Criteria to be used to determine this status are subject to debate, and range from the requirement of simply being a human organism to such requirements as that the individual be self-aware and capable of rational thought and moral agency.

Fundamental claims of patients, as expressed in statutes, declarations, or generally accepted moral principles. (Bioethics Thesaurus) The term is used for discussions of patient rights as a group of many rights, as in a hospital's posting of a list of patient rights.

The process of making a selective intellectual judgment when presented with several complex alternatives consisting of several variables, and usually defining a course of action or an idea.

Informed consent given by someone other than the patient or research subject.

Conceptual response of the person to the various aspects of death, which are based on individual psychosocial and cultural experience.

Failing to prevent death from natural causes, for reasons of mercy by the withdrawal or withholding of life-prolonging treatment.

Vegetative state refers to the neurocognitive status of individuals with severe brain damage, in whom physiologic functions (sleep-wake cycles, autonomic control, and breathing) persist, but awareness (including all cognitive function and emotion) is abolished.

The collective designation of three organizations with common membership: the European Economic Community (Common Market), the European Coal and Steel Community, and the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom). It was known as the European Community until 1994. It is primarily an economic union with the principal objectives of free movement of goods, capital, and labor. Professional services, social, medical and paramedical, are subsumed under labor. The constituent countries are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. (The World Almanac and Book of Facts 1997, p842)

Individual's expression of desirability or value of one course of action, outcome, or selection in contrast to others.

Guideline for determining when it is morally permissible to perform an action to pursue a good end with knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results. It generally states that, in cases where a contemplated action has such double effect, the action is permissible only if: it is not wrong in itself; the bad result is not intended; the good result is not a direct causal result of the bad result; and the good result is "proportionate to" the bad result. (from Solomon, "Double Effect," in Becker, The Encyclopedia of Ethics, 1992)

The religion of the Jews characterized by belief in one God and in the mission of the Jews to teach the Fatherhood of God as revealed in the Hebrew Scriptures. (Webster, 3d ed)

Human experimentation that is not intended to benefit the subjects on whom it is performed. Phase I drug studies (CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC) and research involving healthy volunteers are examples of nontherapeutic human experimentation.

A set of beliefs concerning the nature, cause, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency. It usually involves devotional and ritual observances and often a moral code for the conduct of human affairs. (Random House Collegiate Dictionary, rev. ed.)

Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Private hospitals that are owned or sponsored by religious organizations.

Differences of opinion or disagreements that may arise, for example, between health professionals and patients or their families, or against a political regime.

Psychiatry in its legal aspects. This includes criminology, penology, commitment of mentally ill, the psychiatrist's role in compensation cases, the problems of releasing information to the court, and of expert testimony.

Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)

The interactions between physician and patient.

Facilities which provide nursing supervision and limited medical care to persons who do not require hospitalization.

A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.

Persons with psychiatric illnesses or diseases, particularly psychotic and severe mood disorders.

Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.

Promotion and protection of the rights of patients, frequently through a legal process.

The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)

The expected function of a member of the medical profession.

A management function in which standards and guidelines are developed for the development, maintenance, and handling of forms and records.

Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)

Laws and regulations, pertaining to the field of medicine, proposed for enactment or enacted by a legislative body.

Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.

An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be.

Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.

Voluntary authorization, by a patient or research subject, with full comprehension of the risks involved, for diagnostic or investigative procedures, and for medical and surgical treatment.

Those factors, such as language or sociocultural relationships, which interfere in the meaningful interpretation and transmission of ideas between individuals or groups.

Hospitals which provide care for the military personnel and usually for their dependents.

Patient or client refusal of or resistance to medical, psychological, or psychiatric treatment. (APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed.)

The teaching or training of patients concerning their own health needs.

Patient involvement in the decision-making process in matters pertaining to health.

The medical science that deals with the origin, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of mental disorders.

Coexistence of numerous distinct ethnic, racial, religious, or cultural groups within one social unit, organization, or population. (From American Heritage Dictionary, 2d college ed., 1982, p955)

The act or fact of grasping the meaning, nature, or importance of; understanding. (American Heritage Dictionary, 4th ed) Includes understanding by a patient or research subject of information disclosed orally or in writing.

A housing and health care alternative combining independence with personal care. It provides a combination of housing, personalized supportive services and health care designed to meet the needs, both scheduled and unscheduled, of those who need help with activities of daily living. (www.alfa.org)

Geriatric long-term care facilities which provide supervision and assistance in activities of daily living with medical and nursing services when required.

The exchange or transmission of ideas, attitudes, or beliefs between individuals or groups.

Conversations with an individual or individuals held in order to obtain information about their background and other personal biographical data, their attitudes and opinions, etc. It includes school admission or job interviews.

The attitude of a significant portion of a population toward any given proposition, based upon a measurable amount of factual evidence, and involving some degree of reflection, analysis, and reasoning.

Professional medical personnel approved to provide care to patients in a hospital.

Individuals licensed to practice medicine.

Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).

Truthful revelation of information, specifically when the information disclosed is likely to be psychologically painful ("bad news") to the recipient (e.g., revelation to a patient or a patient's family of the patient's DIAGNOSIS or PROGNOSIS) or embarrassing to the teller (e.g., revelation of medical errors).

Incorporating advance care planning into family practice [see comment]. (1/306)

Despite widespread support for the concept of advance care planning, few Americans have a living will or a health care proxy. Advance care planning offers the patient the opportunity to have an ongoing dialog with his or her relatives and family physician regarding choices for care at the end of life. Ultimately, advance care planning is designed to clarify the patient's questions, fears and values, and thus improve the patient's well-being by reducing the frequency and magnitude of overtreatment and undertreatment as defined by the patient. An advance directive consists of oral and written instructions about a person's future medical care in the event he or she becomes unable to communicate. There are two types of advance directives: a living will and a health care power of attorney. Family physicians are in an ideal position to discuss advance care plans with their patients. By introducing the subject during a routine office visit, physicians can facilitate a structured discussion of the patient's wishes for end-of-life care. At the next visit, further discussion can include the patient and his or her proxy. A document that clearly delineates the patient's wishes is then developed. The patient should be assured that the directive can be changed at any time according to the patient's wishes. The advance care plan should be reviewed periodically to make sure the specifications continue to be in line with the patient's wishes. (+info)

Relationships between various attitudes towards self-determination in health care with special reference to an advance directive. (2/306)

OBJECTIVES: The subject of patient self-determination in health care has gained broad interest because of the increasing number of incompetent patients. In an attempt to solve the problems related to doctors' decision making in such circumstances, advance directives have been developed. The purpose of this study was to examine relationships between public attitudes towards patient autonomy and advance directives. SUBJECTS AND MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: A stratified random sample of 600 adults in northern Sweden was surveyed by a questionnaire with a response rate of 78.2%. The subjects were asked about their wish for control of their health care, their concerns about health care, their treatment preferences in a life-threatening situation (both reversible and irreversible), and their attitudes towards the application of advance directives. RESULTS: Numerous relationships between various aspects of self-determination in health care (desire for control, fears of over-treatment, and choice of treatment level) in general and advance directives, in particular, were found. Those who wanted to have a say in their health care (about 94%) also mainly supported the use of an advance directive. CONCLUSIONS: The fact that almost 30% of the respondents were undecided concerning their personal use of advance directives points to a lack of knowledge and to the necessity of education of the public on these issues. (+info)

Advance directives are the solution to Dr Campbell's problem for voluntary euthanasia. (3/306)

Dr Neil Campbell suggests that when patients suffering extremes of protracted pain ask for help to end their lives, their requests should be discounted as made under compulsion. I contend that the doctors concerned should be referred to and then act upon advance directives made by those patients when of sound and calm mind and afflicted by no such intolerable compulsion. (+info)

A staff dialogue on do not resuscitate orders: psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and caregivers. (4/306)

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH. The Schwartz Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting and advancing compassionate health care delivery which provides hope to the patient, support to caregivers, and encourages the healing process. The Center sponsors the Schwartz Center Rounds, a monthly multidisciplinary forum where caregivers reflect on important psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and their caregivers, and gain insight and support from fellow staff members. The following case of a woman who developed lymphoma was discussed at the July and August, 1997 Schwartz Center Rounds. There were considerable delays and uncertainties in the diagnosis, which was followed by an unpredictably chaotic clinical course. Although she had made it clear to her doctor that she did not want "heroic measures," she had unexpectedly rallied so many times that her son and her husband wanted her doctors to do everything possible to keep her alive, including the performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR). The clinical benefit of CPR in the event of cardiac arrest in those with cancer is discussed, as are do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, living wills, and healthcare proxies. In addition, the issues that surround DNR status, including who should discuss DNR status with a patient, and how and when it should be discussed, are reviewed. Staff raised concerns about the effect of discussing DNR status on the doctor-patient relationship, and wondered whether writing DNR orders adversely affect the care of patients. (+info)

Bone marrow transplant patients with life-threatening organ failure: when should treatment stop? (5/306)

PURPOSE: To discuss issues surrounding life support in bone marrow transplant (BMT) patients, issues that may determine how far we go to keep a deteriorating BMT patient alive--and when we stop trying. How can we define survival chance in BMT patients, and when should prolongation of life be deemed inappropriate? Who should make the decision to terminate support? And how should life support be terminated? DESIGN: Prognostic factors that predict for almost certain nonsurvival have been identified in BMT patients with life-threatening organ failure. The concept of futility raises the question of how low the chance of survival must be before termination of life support is justified--but the concept is flawed, and the value judgments involved in decision making must also be considered. Then, once a decision is made, the manner of withholding or withdrawing life support is also open to discussion. CONCLUSION: Despite controversies, there are areas in which improvements to current practice might be considered. More data are required to determine survival chances of BMT patients with life-threatening organ failure. Greater attention might be devoted, in pretransplant counseling, to issues of intensive life support, with the patient's own views being ascertained before transplantation. And, because technologic possibilities are now imposing fewer boundaries, the problem of finite resources may need to be readdressed, with treatment limits being set down before transplantation. (+info)

Family consent, communication, and advance directives for cancer disclosure: a Japanese case and discussion. (6/306)

The dilemma of whether and how to disclose a diagnosis of cancer or of any other terminal illness continues to be a subject of worldwide interest. We present the case of a 62-year-old Japanese woman afflicted with advanced gall bladder cancer who had previously expressed a preference not to be told a diagnosis of cancer. The treating physician revealed the diagnosis to the family first, and then told the patient: "You don't have any cancer yet, but if we don't treat you, it will progress to a cancer". In our analysis, we examine the role of family consent, communication patterns (including ambiguous disclosure), and advance directives for cancer disclosure in Japan. Finally, we explore the implications for Edmund Pellegrino's proposal of "something close to autonomy" as a universal good. (+info)

Survey of Japanese physicians' attitudes towards the care of adult patients in persistent vegetative state. (7/306)

OBJECTIVES: Ethical issues have recently been raised regarding the appropriate care of patients in persistent vegetative state (PVS) in Japan. The purpose of our study is to study the attitudes and beliefs of Japanese physicians who have experience caring for patients in PVS. DESIGN AND SETTING: A postal questionnaire was sent to all 317 representative members of the Japan Society of Apoplexy working at university hospitals or designated teaching hospitals by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The questionnaire asked subjects what they would recommend for three hypothetical vignettes that varied with respect to a PVS patient's previous wishes and the wishes of the family. RESULTS: The response rate was 65%. In the case of a PVS patient who had no previous expressed wishes and no family, 3% of the respondents would withdraw artificial nutrition and hydration (ANH) when the patient did not require any other life-sustaining treatments, 4% would discontinue ANH, and 30% would withhold antibiotics when the patient developed pneumonia. Significantly more respondents (17%) would withdraw ANH in the case of a PVS patient whose previous wishes and family agreed that all life support be discontinued. Most respondents thought that a patient's written advance directives would influence their decisions. Forty per cent of the respondents would want to have ANH stopped and 31% would not want antibiotics administered if they were in PVS. CONCLUSIONS: Japanese physicians tend not to withdraw ANH from PVS patients. Patients' written advance directives, however, would affect their decisions. (+info)

A multimedia intervention on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advance directives. (8/306)

OBJECTIVE: To assess the effects of a multimedia educational intervention about advance directives (ADs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the knowledge, attitude and activity toward ADs and life-sustaining treatments of elderly veterans. DESIGN: Prospective randomized controlled, single blind study of educational interventions. SETTING: General medicine clinic of a university-affiliated Veterans Affairs Medical Center (VAMC). PARTICIPANTS: One hundred seventeen Veterans, 70 years of age or older, deemed able to make medical care decisions. INTERVENTION: The control group (n = 55) received a handout about ADs in use at the VAMC. The experimental group (n = 62) received the same handout, with an additional handout describing procedural aspects and outcomes of CPR, and they watched a videotape about ADs. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Patients' attitudes and actions toward ADs, CPR and life-sustaining treatments were recorded before the intervention, after it, and 2 to 4 weeks after the intervention through self-administered questionnaires. Only 27.8% of subjects stated that they knew what an AD is in the preintervention questionnaire. This proportion improved in both the experimental and control (87.2% experimental, 52.5% control) subject groups, but stated knowledge of what an AD is was higher in the experimental group (odds ratio = 6.18, p <.001) and this effect, although diminished, persisted in the follow-up questionnaire (OR = 3.92, p =. 003). Prior to any intervention, 15% of subjects correctly estimated the likelihood of survival after CPR. This improved after the intervention in the experimental group (OR = 4.27, p =.004), but did not persist at follow-up. In the postintervention questionnaire, few subjects in either group stated that they discussed CPR or ADs with their physician on that day (OR = 0.97, p = NS). CONCLUSION: We developed a convenient means of educating elderly male patients regarding CPR and advance directives that improved short-term knowledge but did not stimulate advance care planning. (+info)

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These three main directives have been supplemented over time by several modifying and implementing directives, including the ... As technology advances, there is typically a level of quality, safety and reliability that increases exponentially with time.[ ... "Council Directive 93/42/EEC of 14 June 1993 concerning medical devices". eur-lex.europa.eu. Retrieved 15 March 2019.. ... "Directive 2007/47/ec of the European parliament and of the council". Eur-lex Europa. 5 September 2007. Retrieved 15 June 2014. ...

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John Herbert, the governor of Bengal, issued an urgent directive in late March 1942 requiring stocks of paddy (unmilled rice) ... or adequately advance British military goals.[335] The policies may have met their intended wartime goals, but only at the cost ... Advanced anti-malarial drugs such as mepacrine (Atabrine) were distributed almost solely to the military and to "priority ...

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Juan Pascual-Leone was the first to advance this approach.[8]. Pascual-Leone argued that human thought is organized in two ... Working hypercognition is a strong directive-executive function that is responsible for setting and pursuing mental and ... Kurt W. Fischer advanced a theory that integrates Piaget's notion of stages in cognitive development with notions from learning ... Based on Pascual-Leone, several other researchers advanced alternative models of capacity development. Robbie Case rejected the ...

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The Sixtieth Year Building: This is a building that is planned to be used for Dhammakaya meditation at an advanced level.[342] ... but instead four directives were given for the temple to improve itself: setting up an Abhidhamma school, more focus on ...

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Recent technological advances are slowly improving wheelchair and powerchair technology. A variation on the manually-propelled ... since the introduction of EU Directive EC1107/2006. ...

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Noble's directive to the Commission was to offer $1.25 per acre, but to adjust that amount if the situation favored it. Lucius ... Due to his blindness and advanced age, the childless couple were to be paid $350 for their care and well-being. Tribal member ... Jerome cited the Dawes Act allotment directive of 160 acres (0.65 km2; 0.25 sq mi) to heads of household, 80 acres (0.32 km2; ... They were reported as having advanced to what was considered civilized clothing, living in log houses, and owning livestock. ...

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Burton, George; Holman, John; Lazonby, John (2000). Salters Advanced Chemistry: Chemical Storylines (2nd ed.). Heinemann. ISBN ... The amended Fuel Quality Directive adopted in 2009 allows up to 3% v/v blend-in of methanol in petrol.[23] ... "Directive 2009/30/EC of the European Union and of the Council". 2009.. ...

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"Alternative & Advanced Fuels". US Department of Energy. Retrieved 7 March 2012.. *^ a b c Knothe, Gerhard (2010). "Biodiesel ... "Council Directive 85/536/EEC of 5 December 1985 on crude-oil savings through the use of substitute fuel components in petrol". ... "Advanced Biofuels: The Potential for a UK Industry, NNFCC 11-011" Archived 31 January 2016 at the Wayback Machine., Retrieved ... Li, H.; Cann, A. F.; Liao, J. C. (2010). "Biofuels: Biomolecular Engineering Fundamentals and Advances". Annual Review of ...

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The European Union's controversial Working Time Directive[6] conflicted with this: at first the UK negotiated an opt-out for ... The curriculum must advance residents' knowledge of the basic principles of research, including how research is conducted, ... Residency as an opportunity for advanced training in a medical or surgical specialty evolved in the late 19th century from ... Fitzgerald JE, Caesar BC (2012). "The European working time directive: A practical review for surgical trainees". International ...

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It uses absorption technology with Aker Solution Advanced Amine solvent as a CO2 capture unit. Similarly, the ARV Duiven at ... There are some future policies that give incentives to use bioenergy such as Renewable Energy Directive (RED) and Fuel Quality ... Directive (FQD), which require 20% of total energy consumption to be based on biomass, bioliquids and biogas by 2020.[40] ... "Renewable energy directive". European Commission. 2014-07-16. Retrieved 8 December 2018.. ...

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In 1987, an advanced scoring system was developed for the MBTI. From this was developed the Type Differentiation Indicator ( ... they can suddenly become rigid and directive, exerting their extraverted thinking erratically. ...

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2017). LGBT Psychology and Mental Health: Emerging Research and Advances. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger Publishing. ISBN ... wrote The Price of Salt in 1951 and refused to follow this directive, but instead used a pseudonym.[239] ... the use of politicized understanding of sexual categories to advance specific national interests on the domestic and ...

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August 1972 marked the end of CP/CMS, with IBM's "System/370 Advanced Function" announcement. This included: the new S/370-158 ... without a clear directive from Corporate management) IBM's Cambridge Branch Office decided to interpret Watson's original grant ... IBM's 1965 reorganization: The two IBM product divisions pursuing time-sharing development - Advanced Systems Development ... "System/370 Advanced Function" announcement, including the S/370-158 and -168.[10] ...

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... they can fill out advanced directives indicating their attitude toward noninvasive ventilation, invasive ventilation, and ... "Therapeutic Advances in Neurological Disorders. 11: 1756285617734734. doi:10.1177/1756285617734734. PMC 5784546. PMID 29399045. ... However, a large 2015 study showed that PEG insertion is safe in people with advanced ALS and low vital capacities, as long as ... Moujalled D, White AR (March 2016). "Advances in the Development of Disease-Modifying Treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral ...

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"Commission Directive 2008/100/EC of 28 October 2008 amending Council Directive 90/496/EEC on nutrition labelling for foodstuffs ... In advanced scurvy there are open, suppurating wounds and loss of teeth and, eventually, death. The human body can store only a ... Advances in Carbohydrate Chemistry and Biochemistry. 35. pp. 1-29. doi:10.1016/S0065-2318(08)60217-6. ISBN 9780120072354. . ... Gropper SS, Smith JL, Grodd JL (2005). Advanced nutrition and human metabolism. Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. pp. 260-275. ...

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It is structured along the same lines, but with the day in the date of birth advanced by 60 (giving a number between 61 and 91 ... an implementation of the Data Protection Directive. ...

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"Directive on the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) Directive 2001/18/EC ANNEX I A". Official Journal of the ... Pada tahun 1983, sebuah perusahaan bioteknologi, Advanced Genetic Sciences (AGS) mengajukan permohonan otorisasi pemerintah AS ...

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In 2002 the European Union (EU) introduced the Directive on Privacy and Electronic Communications. Article 13 of the Directive ... to approximately 400 potential clients via the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET). He claims that this ... The directive has since been incorporated into the laws of member states. In the UK it is covered under the Privacy and ... The Directive establishes the opt-in regime, where unsolicited emails may be sent only with prior agreement of the recipient; ...

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European Parliament (5 June 2009), Directive 2009/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 April 2009, ... The leaked documents show that the NSA provided US delegates with advance details of the Danish plan to "rescue" the talks ... advance copy) (PDF). UNEP website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 May 2011. Retrieved 11 May 2011.. This publication is ... in order to provide the US negotiators with advance information about the positions of other parties at the conference.[161][ ...

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It may be that White parents are more likely to use directives to elaborately reminisce than Black parents are with daughters ... Performance on both verbal and nonverbal memory tasks shows that children with more advanced language abilities can report more ... during a verbal interview and exhibit superior nonverbal memory compared to children with less advanced language skills.[28] If ...

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The directive was implemented by several other directives[2] thus most white goods, light bulb packaging and cars must have an ... In an attempt to keep up with advances in energy efficiency, A+, A++ and A+++ grades were later introduced for various products ... Directive 92/75/EC was replaced by Directive 2010/30/EU[3] which must be applied from 31 July 2011. ... "Commission Directive 98/11/EC of 27 January 1998 implementing Council Directive 92/75/EEC with regard to energy labelling of ...

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Under the auspices of the European Union's Habitats Directive, 244 sites in Scotland covering more than 8,750 square kilometres ... Although the species has made significant advances, it is estimated that 38% of the 395 birds fledged between 1999 and 2003 ...

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Directive 2004/27/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 amending Directive 2001/83/EC on the ... Eli Lilly & Company and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences.. *^ Taylor, David (2015). The Pharmaceutical ... Although often accepted as an advance in some ways, there was some opposition, due to serious adverse effects such as tardive ... Despite advances in technology and understanding of biological systems, drug discovery is still a lengthy, "expensive, ...

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Cahill SP, Foa EB (2004). Taylor S (ed.). Advances in the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Cognitive-behavioral ... In the sessions with the drug, therapists are not directive and support the patients in exploring their inner experiences. ...

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This was advanced practice ahead of its times regarding treatment and care. This methodology had a greater impact on social ... allows establishments to overlook or discriminate against persons with disabilities and against the general lack of directives ... Rising death tolls due to mental illness demonstrate the imperative need for improved mental health care policies and advances ...

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Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) are an emerging method for adults with serious and persistent mental illness to document treatment preferences in advance of periods of incapacity. (springer.com)
Consumer, provider, and informal caregiver opinions on psychiatric advance directives. (springer.com)
Psychiatric advance directives: an alternative to coercive treatment? (springer.com)
EAT-PAD: Educating about psychiatric advance directives in India. (medworm.com)
Even if they have not encountered them in practice yet, health information management (HIM) professionals may want to familiarize themselves with documents called psychiatric advance directives (PADs), a tool mental health professionals are using to help patients receive better care. (ahima.org)
For more information about PADs and the states where they are accepted, click here to visit the National Resource Center on Psychiatric Advance Directives. (ahima.org)
Among measures to reduce compulsory admissions, Psychiatric Advance Directives (PAD) are the most promising, with intensive PAD (i.e. facilitated and shared) being the most effective. (archives-ouvertes.fr)
The aim of the study is to experiment Psychiatric Advance Directives in France. (archives-ouvertes.fr)
Psychiatric advance directives (PADs) were introduced in the 1980s as legal instruments for psychiatric patients to retain some choice over their own mental health treatment during periods of decisional incapacity. (jaapl.org)

While many people have discussed their wishes with a loved one indirectly, relatively few have a legally binding advance directive to guide their care should they become extremely ill. (bellaonline.com)
Advance care planning refers to when people proactively think about what their healthcare wishes would be if they were unable to speak for themselves at any time in the future, and communicate those wishes to others. (clevelandclinic.org)
Advanced care planning is important for people of all ages because anything can happen to anyone at any time and having a plan in place can help ensure that your healthcare wishes can be known and honored in any situation. (clevelandclinic.org)
A powerful tool to help let your medical team know your healthcare wishes is through an Advance Directive. (clevelandclinic.org)
Advance Directives are legal documents that provide instructions about your healthcare wishes, in case you are unable to speak for yourself. (clevelandclinic.org)
Cleveland Clinic recommends that every person over the age of 18 have an advance directive in their electronic medical record and have conversations with their loved ones about their wishes. (clevelandclinic.org)
Download Cleveland Clinic's advance directive informational brochure for more information on stating your wishes regarding medical treatment. (clevelandclinic.org)
If you already have a signed advance directive, your wishes are more likely to be followed. (familydoctor.org)
The way to enforce your wishes about future medical-care decisions is to make them in advance and place them in a legally enforceable 'advance directive' document. (nationalmssociety.org)
Advance care planning includes advance directives, legal documents such as a living will designed to record such wishes. (eurekalert.org)
If you have an advance directive in your medical records, your doctor and other health care providers can take care of you based on your wishes as stated in the advance directive. (kidney.org)
There are no winners and losers in a tragic situation like this, but this case does show clearly that all Canadians must make their wishes clear with advance care directives,' says CMA President-elect Chris Simpson. (cma.ca)
An advance directive gives you the chance to write out your wishes. (firsthealth.org)
The time to think about and communicate your advance care planning wishes is while you and your loved ones are able to discuss your choices - in the comfort of a living room rather than the stress of a hospital. (firsthealth.org)
Advance Directives are planning documents that legally ensure your wishes are carried out and prevent courts from obtaining decision-making authority. (firsthealth.org)
Each case contained an explicit advance directive with potential conflict between the directive and (1) prognosis, (2) wishes of family or friends, or (3) quality of life. (uptodate.com)
In difficult clinical situations, internists appear to consider other factors such as prognosis, perceived quality of life, and the wishes of family or friends as more determinative than the directive. (uptodate.com)
Newswise - September 15, 2014 - An educational program for nurses can help address knowledge gaps related to advance health care directives (AHCDs)-thus helping to ensure that patients' wishes for care at the end of life are known and respected, reports a paper in the October/December Journal of Christian Nursing , official journal of the Nurses Christian Fellowship . (newswise.com)
Program Meets Nurses' Need for Knowledge on Advance Directives Research shows that, while most adults want their wishes for end-of-life care response, only about one-third have completed AHCDs. (newswise.com)
It defines your wishes about medical treatments and what should or should not be done if you are no longer able to express your treatment preferences, but does not provide as much clarity as an advance directive in some situations. (vitas.com)
A legal document called an advance healthcare directive specifies your wishes about your care and under what circumstances you want your life prolonged. (sutterhealth.org)
Advance directives are documents in which a person states his/her wishes with regard to the future use of medical interventions in the event that they are unable to participate in medical decisions regarding their (end-of-life) care, due to incompetence or loss of consciousness. (emgo.nl)
The advance directive cohort, consisting of people with one or more of the 4 most common advance directives in the Netherlands, aims at getting insight in motives and expectations underlying the completion of an advance directive, whether wishes concerning the end of life change over time, and the role of advance directives in situations in which they have become applicable. (emgo.nl)
Simply put, advanced directives give individuals the capability to determine what types of medical treatment they would like to receive in the event they are not able to communicate those wishes themselves. (legalmatch.com)
Advance directives remain the primary tool for people to communicate their end-of-life care wishes and appoint surrogate decision makers, but improvements to the documents and completion process are clearly needed," she concluded. (hon.ch)
Your doctor will also be aware of your wishes in advance of any condition compromising your capacity, as a copy of your completed Advance Medical Directive is lodged with your GP. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
We therefore recommend that clients have an Advance Medical Directive as a Welfare Power of Attorney, so the Advance Medical Directive can act as guidance to your Welfare Attorney and your medical team and your Welfare Attorney can be satisfied that they are acting in accordance with your expressed wishes. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
Participants will learn about Connecticut's advance directives law, how to communicate their wishes to friends, family and medical providers, how to appoint a health-care representative and how to go about completing their own advance directive. (dariennewsonline.com)
If you're unable to make important end-of-life medical decisions yourself, it's important to have your wishes stated in advance. (rocketlawyer.com)
For healthy patients, an advance directive is an appropriate tool for making future end-of-life care wishes known to loved ones. (hospicesavannah.org)
An Advance Directive, also called a living will, is a legal document that lets you give directions to your family and doctors in advance regarding the kind of medical treatment you would want in the event you are diagnosed with a terminal condition and enter a progressive vegetative state due to illness or injury or ever become unable to communicate such wishes. (augustahealth.com)
My brother, who was taken off life support after health complications from the stroke, had also created an advance directive that outlined his wishes. (baycare.org)
The best time to prepare an advance directive is when people are healthy and are able to discuss their wishes with their physicians, friends and family. (baycare.org)
The best way for individuals to ensure that their wishes for end-of-life care will be carried out is by completing advance directives - legal documents that instruct physicians on how to carry out medical decisions, especially when an individual is unable to communicate during a medical crisis. (mcknights.com)
The implementation of the Oklahoma Advance Directive (OKAD) and the Five Wishes form were compared in an 8-month pair-matched cluster randomized study in 6 primary care practices. (jabfm.org)
The Advance Health Care Directive (AHCD) is a way to make your healthcare wishes known if you are unable to communicate. (pscpartners.org)
A medical power of attorney , also known as a healthcare proxy, is one type of healthcare directive that communicates your wishes in case you are not able to express this information due to a medical emergency or situation. (pscpartners.org)
How do you reconcile her previously expressed hypothetical wishes in an Advance Directive with what is now a rather unanticipated scenario? (geripal.org)
Based on the framework, the paper argues that it is ethically appropriate for the physician and daughter to override the patient's previously stated wishes in her Advance Directive and transfer her to the hospital for surgery. (geripal.org)
Note that providers will still need to confirm that the filed registered directive is the individual's most current expression of wishes. (dykema.com)
Like a typical advance directive that dictates a person's end of life wishes, a PAD contains specific instructions from patients on how they would like to be treated when they present for care either on their own or if they need to be involuntarily committed by a friend or family member. (ahima.org)
An advance directive allows you to state your wishes, or name someone who will state your wishes for you, to receive or refuse medical treatment if you are unable to make decisions for yourself. (cabellhuntington.org)
You do not have to make a decision about your health care now, but discussing your wishes with family members in advance can make dealing with a healthcare emergency a bit easier. (cabellhuntington.org)
An advance directive is a legal document that outlines your specific wishes regarding health care in the event you lose the ability to make decisions for yourself. (cabellhuntington.org)
Cabell Huntington Hospital recognizes and respects the rights of its patients to agree to or refuse medical treatments and will comply with its patients' advance directives as long as the wishes can be understood and can be carried out according to the law. (cabellhuntington.org)
If the patient's wishes cannot be understood or if questions arise about the use of advance directives, a consultation with the Ethics Committee can be requested by the patient, the patient's family or the caregiver. (cabellhuntington.org)
When you give them a copy of your advance directive, take some time to explain what it says and what your wishes are. (lodihealth.org)
An advanced declaration of my wishes felt, well, "advanced. (medium.com)
An advance directive is a legal document stating the patient's wishes for care if he or she is incapacitated. (regenstrief.org)
The only ethical and legal way to avoid this scenario is when patients have made their wishes known in advance and appointed someone they trust to make decisions when they are no longer able to. (compassionandchoices.org)
In three-quarters of the cases, the relatives did not want the nursing home physician to comply with the directive, but they did want to respect the patient's wishes by forgoing life-prolonging treatment, which occurred in approximately 90% of cases. (eur.nl)
Compared to a "living will," which spells out in advance a person's wishes concerning certain health care decisions, a health care power of attorney, or HCPOA, designates a trusted person to whom decision-making authority is granted, should a person be incapacitated and unable to make those decisions. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)
The advance care directive (ACD) enables a person to record their healthcare wishes in advance so that these are known should a time ever come when the person can no longer communicate or decide for themselves. (hrb.ie)

There are two different types of Advance Directives, (1) a Health Care Power of Attorney and (2) a Living Will. (clevelandclinic.org)
The PSDA "requires that whenever any adult is admitted to a hospital for any reason, he or she must be informed about 'living wills' or other types of 'advance directives' available by law. (all.org)
There are two types of advance directives including a designation of health care surrogate and a living will. (baycare.org)
Both types of advance directives must be witnessed by two qualified people, and each document must be notarized. (cabellhuntington.org)
Halpern said that despite national policies and laws promoting the use of advance care directives, there has never before been a study comparing different types of advance directives. (healthcanal.com)
To explore how patients make these decisions, the researchers randomly assigned 132 seriously ill patients with life expectancies of two years or fewer to complete one of three types of advance directives. (healthcanal.com)

Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. (medlineplus.gov)
The most recent result was the Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990, [21] which attempted to address this awareness problem by requiring health care institutions to better promote and support the use of advance directives. (wikipedia.org)
What is Advance Care Planning? (clevelandclinic.org)
A Health Care Power of Attorney is a type of Advance Directive in which you name a person to make decisions and speak for you when you are unable to speak for yourself and applies in nearly all circumstances. (clevelandclinic.org)
Download and complete the Ohio Advance Directive Forms packet that includes the health care power of attorney, living will, donor registry enrollment and instructions. (clevelandclinic.org)
A durable power of attorney (DPA) for health care is another kind of advance directive. (familydoctor.org)
Advance directives are legal documents that describe what you want for your medical care, finances and estate. (cancer.ca)
There are a number of different words and phrases used to describe advance care directives. (citizensinformation.ie)
The Texas Advance Directives Act (1999), also known as the Texas Futile Care Law, describes certain provisions that are now Chapter 166 of the Texas Health & Safety Code. (wikipedia.org)
Do Advance Directives Provide Instructions That Direct Care? (rand.org)
We examined directives with instructions to forgo life-sustaining treatment in the current state of health to determine whether care given was consistent with preferences noted in those directives. (rand.org)
Advances in medical care and technology have blurred the boundaries between life-and-death and have challenged our expectations about how Americans should experience the end of life. (hhs.gov)
Advance directives (ADs) or advance health care directives were developed to provide a practical process for ensuring patient autonomy at the end of life. (hhs.gov)
This led to the development of what some have called "second generation" advance directives - the "health care proxy appointment" or "medical power of attorney. (wikipedia.org)
Dramatic medical and technological advances further underscored the importance of planning ahead for end-of-life care. (encyclopedia.com)
There are two main documents in an advance directive: a living will and a durable power of attorney for health care. (encyclopedia.com)
Washington, DC (November 17, 2016) -- In a recent study, nearly half of kidney failure patients receiving dialysis had advance directives outlining their preferences related to end-of-life care, but only a very small minority of these directives addressed the management of dialysis. (eurekalert.org)
The findings, which appear in an upcoming issue of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (CJASN), indicate that the simple presence or absence of an advance directive is not adequate for fully addressing important aspects of dialysis patients' end-of-life care. (eurekalert.org)
Considerable research has documented the benefits of advance care planning, a series of conversations between patients, loved ones, and health care providers defining a patient's values, goals, and preferences on which to base future medical decisions, including end-of-life care. (eurekalert.org)
Most studies on advance care planning have been based on surveys. (eurekalert.org)
Future research needs to be much more sophisticated in how we measure the success of advance care planning and advance directive execution such that we assure that we are actually improving patient outcomes. (eurekalert.org)
An advance directive is a legal paper that tells doctors and health care providers how you want them to carry out medical decisions you have made for future crisis care, even if you cannot communicate these decisions for yourself. (kidney.org)
Hospitals and other health care providers usually will not let a friend decide unless he or she is named in an advance directive. (kidney.org)
With an advance directive, it may be possible to accept all treatments recommended by the health care provider, accept some treatments and refuse others, or refuse all recommended treatments . (kidney.org)
Living wills and other advance directives are written, legal instructions regarding your preferences for medical care if you are unable to make decisions for yourself. (mayoclinic.org)
In some states this directive may also be called a durable power of attorney for health care or a health care proxy. (mayoclinic.org)
In a multicenter, randomized clinical trial of default options in advance directives among patients with incurable diseases, we will determine whether this simple and readily scalable intervention can improve patients quality of life and reduce resource utilization without reducing the number of days that patients are alive and living outside of an acute-care hospital. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Patients will indicate on their advance directives forms their selections for post-hospitalization care. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Advance Care Planning Choices: Make them yours, and make them known. (firsthealth.org)
An advance directive gives your family direction on what medical care you want or don't want if you can't communicate. (firsthealth.org)
The only way to make sure that your health care choices are respected when you are unable to speak for yourself is with legal documents referred to as Advance Directives. (firsthealth.org)
Some Advance Directives include Living Will and Health Care Power of Attorney. (firsthealth.org)
Advance directives DO NOT sign away your right to medical treatment or put you at risk of being denied medical care. (firsthealth.org)
Advance care planning is one of the best gifts you can give to the people you love, and it starts with a conversation. (aspirus.org)
Advance care planning is a process of understanding, reflecting on and discussing future medical decisions. (aspirus.org)
How to begin advance care planning? (aspirus.org)
To learn more, request your free copy of "Advance Care Planning: It's About the Conversation" or a free "Advance Care Planning Kit" by calling the Aspirus Customer Contact Center from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at 715.847.2380 or 800.847.4707. (aspirus.org)
Assistance is also available by phone by calling the Advance Care Planning Warm Line at 715-843-1340 or toll free at 844-624-4793. (aspirus.org)
Advance Care Planning and a Living Will lets you define the treatment choices you want. (svmh.com)
Also known as an advance directive or an advanced health care directive and also a living will . (duhaime.org)
The primary considerations in an advanced health care directive are obvious and include naming the individual health care decision maker, deciding if an alternate is needed, and if so, naming that individual. (duhaime.org)
The Advance Health Care Directive (ADHC) allows you to appoint someone (health care agent, attorney-in-fact, proxy, or surrogate) to make a decision for you if you cannot speak for yourself. (caregiver.org)
It is also called the Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care, Natural Death Act, Directive to Physicians, or a Living Will. (caregiver.org)
An advance directive outlines a plan for medical care. (abcnews4.com)
Every adult can write a health care advance directive , such as a living will or health care power of attorney, to make his or her health care preferences clear and legally binding. (aarp.org)
The most common misperception about advance care planning is that it requires completing a complex legal document. (aarp.org)
At its best, advance care planning is a continuing conversation, not a one-time chat. (aarp.org)
Once you and family members have discussed your health care priorities, it's important to discuss them with your physician and get your advance directive into your primary health care record. (aarp.org)
Some states have created advance directive registries to simplify access to your advance care plans. (aarp.org)
and (5) evaluate preliminary effects of the Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Alabama Veterans who received care through the Tuscaloosa VA Medical Center were randomized to either the Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention or Care-as-Usual in a 2:1 ratio respectively. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention was a manualized education, support, and guidance session provided by a Registered Nurse that included information about risks, benefits, and alternatives of specific choices. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The Care-as-Usual was a session with the social worker who explained what the Advance Directive is, and guided the Veteran regarding the process of completing the Advance Directive document, without providing information about risks, benefits, and alternatives of specific choices. (clinicaltrials.gov)
The underlying hypothesis of the eventual full study is that the Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention is associated with Advance Directive completion rates at least comparable to that of the As-Usual care. (clinicaltrials.gov)
It provides important information needed to plan a full study of the effectiveness of a specific Nurse-Supported Advance Care Planning Intervention to facilitate Advance Directive completion by rural Alabama Veterans. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Appelbaum P. Advance directives for psychiatric care. (springer.com)
Gallagher E. Advance directives for psychiatric care: a theoretical and practical overview for legal professionals. (springer.com)
Fleischner R. Advance directives for mental health care: an analysis of State Statutes. (springer.com)
Despite the growing need for advance care planning, many health care professionals lack the knowledge to teach patients about advance directives. (newswise.com)
She also highlights some key issues for further research related to AHCDs, including addressing patients' distress around end-of-life care, issues surrounding healthcare team relationships, and the optimal timing of conversations with patients and families about completing an advance directive. (newswise.com)
An advance directive is a document that gives information to healthcare providers about the care you want if you are seriously ill and unable to speak for yourself. (vitas.com)
Early advance care planning is the kindest thing you can do for yourself, your family and friends. (vitas.com)
We developed a convenient means of educating elderly male patients regarding CPR and advance directives that improved short-term knowledge but did not stimulate advance care planning. (nih.gov)
However, when an adolescent turns 18 years old, the parent is no longer the decision maker and in fact, the law prevents health care providers from discussing issues with anyone other than the "patient" unless the patient gives permission or there is an appropriate advance directive according to the laws of the state of residence. (kidney.org)
You only have to go back to January of 2011 to see how the hysteria around death panels led to the removal of legislation that would have reimbursed physicians for advance care planning discussions . (geripal.org)
An innovative Virginia health care law enables competent adults with serious mental illness to plan for treatment during incapacitating crises using an integrated advance directive with no legal distinction between psychiatric or other causes of decisional incapacity. (rwjf.org)
Most experts agree that some form of written directives are a key component of advance care planning, and yet rates of completion are low and do not appear to be increasing," said study leader Dr. Katherine Courtright. (hon.ch)
Lastly, a new study indicates that those who have signed advance directives (living wills) and have been diagnosed with advanced dementia, will not receive the " aggressive care " that might otherwise have been given to them in a nursing home setting. (all.org)
A living will, commonly referred to as an advance directive, is a document that provides instructions regarding end-of-life care. (legalzoom.com)
Your state's law says who'll make your health care decisions if you don't have an advance directive. (legalzoom.com)
Advance directives allow a person to provide consent for an appointed agent to continue, withdraw or withhold certain medical treatments should that person become incapacitated and unable to make his or her own health care decisions. (aplaceformom.com)
There are many different roads with advance directives, but they all lead to the same result, which is having control over your own health care decisions when you don't even know what's going on," says Krull. (aplaceformom.com)
The Advance Medical Directive could reduce the distress of loved ones in making the critical decisions in relation to your care, and seek to avoid disagreements. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
To assess the consequences of advance medical directives -- which explicitly specify a patient's preferences for one or more specific types of medical treatment in the event of a loss of competence we analyze the medical care of elderly Medicare beneficiaries who died between 1985-1995. (ssrn.com)
We compare the care of patients from states that adopted laws enhancing incentives for compliance with advance directives and laws requiring the appointment of a health care surrogate in the absence of an advance directive to the care of patients from states that did not. (ssrn.com)
As a result, health care practitioners are working to improve patient care by adopting progressive strategies such as nurse-initiated protocols and Advanced Nursing Directives (ANDs). (hindawi.com)
Focusing on departmental flow, the development and implementation of Advanced Nursing Directives and their corresponding patient care maps have been successful in our PED. (hindawi.com)
The purpose of this paper is to review the theoretical constructs behind nurse-driven protocols, the evidence supporting clinical scoring systems, and how the integration of the two form Advanced Nursing Directives (ANDs), which have the potential to significantly improve patient care outcomes, administrative metrics, and overall patient and caregiver satisfaction for children presenting to the ED. (hindawi.com)
The term advance directive has multiple definitions in the literature, but a reasonable working definition is "a person's oral and written instructions about his or her future medical care, in the event he or she becomes unable to communicate. (cfp.ca)
1 In some jurisdictions, this is referred to as an advance care plan or a living will . (cfp.ca)
Although they might be applicable in any clinical scenario, advance directives are typically invoked in situations of terminal illness and end-of-life care. (cfp.ca)
In an age of sophisticated management of critical illness, and in the face of an aging population, 2 advance directives have substantial implications for effective patient care and for use of health care resources. (cfp.ca)
Public awareness and tools for the development of advance directives were identified as priorities by the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada in their 2010 Blueprint for Action . (cfp.ca)
The primary care office visit is a potentially useful setting for advance care discussions. (cfp.ca)
5 , 8 , 9 To date, many of the studies regarding advance directives in primary care have been small, retrospective in nature, or limited to elderly or palliative care populations. (cfp.ca)
This book is an excellent resource for anyone interested in learning about advance directives for health care. (foyles.co.uk)
An Advanced Directive also allows you to appoint someone else (a health care proxy) to make medical decisions for you if you become unable to communicate these decisions yourself. (augustahealth.com)
Comments on the Proposed Rule to Amend Various Aspects of Medicare re: Reimbursing Medicare Providers for Advance Care Planning Counseling Sessions Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Room 445-G Hubert H. Humphrey Building 200 Independence Avenue SW Washington, DC 20201 Attn: CMS-1625-P …we respectfully submit the following comments on the Proposed Rule to amend various aspects of the Medicare program. (physiciansforlife.org)
Our comments relate specifically to the proposal to reimburse Medicare providers for Advance Care Planning counseling sessions. (physiciansforlife.org)
To assess the impact of discussions of advance directives on patients' satisfaction with their primary care physicians and outpatient visits. (nih.gov)
Prospective cohort study of patients enrolled in a randomized, controlled trial of the use of computers to remind primary care physicians to discuss advance directives with their elderly, chronically ill patients. (nih.gov)
At follow-up, the strongest predictor of satisfaction with the primary care visit was having previously discussed advance directives with that physician (P =.004), with a trend towards greater visit satisfaction when discussions were held during that visit (P =.069). (nih.gov)
Elderly patients with chronic illnesses were more satisfied with their primary care physicians and outpatient visits when advanced directives were discussed. (nih.gov)
People can make health care choices in advance about what treatments they want or don't want at the end of life. (baycare.org)
An Advance Care Directive is an important step forward in planning for future health care, preferred living arrangements and other personal matters. (sa.gov.au)
It replaces the existing Enduring Powers of Guardianship, Medical Powers of Attorney and Anticipatory Directions with a single Advance Care Directive Form. (sa.gov.au)
If you have previously completed one of these documents they will continue to have legal effect unless you complete a new Advance Care Directive which will replace your old documents. (sa.gov.au)
For more information please read the Advance Care Directive information brochure (PDF 315KB) or visit the Advance Care Directive website . (sa.gov.au)
View the educational video about Advance Care Directives and Resuscitation Planning below. (sa.gov.au)
The Advance Care Directive Form and DIY Kit can be downloaded from the Advance Care Directives website for free . (sa.gov.au)
You can also complete your Advance Care Directive online using the online form process. (sa.gov.au)
Preferences for care and advance directives should be discussed in the outpatient setting or very early in hospital admission. (rand.org)
This pervasive lack of advance care planning presents a problem because more than half of patients are unable to participate in end-of-life decisions when the time comes. (mcknights.com)
When an AD is not present, SNF staff should perform advance care planning with the resident and their family. (mcknights.com)
Basic barriers include thinking that an advance directive isn't needed, not wanting to think about death or serious illness, not wanting to burden people, not knowing enough about advance directives and health care choices, needing help to fill out the forms, and lack of time with the doctor to discuss the matter. (harvard.edu)
A person's ethnic or cultural background can also be a barrier: minorities tend to be more suspicious of health care providers and resistant to talking about or completing advance directives. (harvard.edu)
According to AARP, African Americans in home health care and nursing homes are half as likely as whites to have advance directives. (harvard.edu)
Some people believe that writing advance directives is bad luck or think it means they no longer want medical care. (harvard.edu)
It is each individual's right to forgo advance care planning, but people need to know that in the American health system that means they will receive maximal medical care if they fall seriously or even terminally ill. (harvard.edu)
Another study in the same journal observed that older adults who had made decisions for someone at the end of life or witnessed this situation were more likely to participate in advance care planning for themselves. (harvard.edu)
In an Advance Directive, you can combine features of a Living Will and a Health Care Power of Attorney. (rocketlawyer.com)
Advance Directives or Advanced Care Planning: Are you Prepared? (rsnhope.org)
A member of the Network 5 Kidney End of Life Coalition, she is an advocate of advance care planning and tells you the ins and outs of what is involved. (rsnhope.org)
The article focuses on advance directives as effective communication tools in health care. (ebscohost.com)
The article discusses a study which revealed the interest of older people in talking about advance care plans with a health professional. (ebscohost.com)
Creating an advance-care-planning decision aid for high-risk surgery: a qualitative study. (ebscohost.com)
Advance care planning prior to surgery may be beneficial, but remains controversial and is hindered by a lack of appropriate decision aids. (ebscohost.com)
Improving patient-centered care through advance care planning. (ebscohost.com)
Advance care planning is crucial for patients confronting incurable, debilitating, or terminal disease. (ebscohost.com)
asked of the 98% of communities that responded "yes" to "Does this residential care community typically maintain documentation of residents' advance directives or have documentation that an advance directive exists in resident files? (cdc.gov)
In 2016, 77.9% of residents in residential care communities had an advance directive documented in their files. (cdc.gov)
A. An individual of sound mind and eighteen (18) years of age or older may execute at any time an advance directive for health care governing the provision, withholding, or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment. (docracy.com)
This report identified several opportunities to improve on these issues including increasing clinician-patient communication and advance care planning (ACP). (jabfm.org)
The workshop will move step-by-step through California's four-part Advance Health Care Directive. (northcoastjournal.com)
Many hospitals and physicians today ask, upon admission, if you have taken care of legal matters such as setting up a health care power of attorney, drafting medical directives, deciding upon organ donation, and related topics. (pscpartners.org)
CaringInfo (formerly Caring Connections) has free, specific state Advanced Health Care Directive (ADCD) forms which you can download in either English or Spanish. (pscpartners.org)
These prescient words resonate for advanced care planning and end-of-life decision making. (mja.com.au)
I find overriding a clear advance directive -- comfort care only, no hospitalization-- on the grounds of presumed benefit (by physician and surrogate, influenced by physician) to be ethically troubling. (geripal.org)
A discussion of leeway also needs to be a bigger part of advance care planning conversations. (geripal.org)
On June 18, 2012, Michigan Governor, Rick Snyder, signed legislation establishing the "Peace of Mind Registry"-a cutting-edge, statewide electronic database for storing individuals' health care advance directives and organ donation documents. (dykema.com)
The Peace of Mind Registry will enable hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and other health care providers to search for advance directives in a centralized location no matter where the patient lives in Michigan. (dykema.com)
However, since the early 1990s health care providers have had an obligation under their Medicare provider agreements to ask all newly admitted inpatients whether they have an advance directive, and to take reasonable steps to obtain a copy if one exists. (dykema.com)
Once the Peace of Mind Registry is operational in Michigan, health care providers should search the database for all new admits, and to obtain copies of filed advance directives. (dykema.com)
Once the Peace of Mind Registry is operational, hospitals, nursing homes and other health care providers should also update their policies and procedures regarding advance directives to incorporate the anticipated benefits of the new data repository. (dykema.com)
Background: The community prevalence of advance care directives (ACDs) is low despite known benefits of advance care planning for patients, families and health professionals. (apo.org.au)
Conclusions: Despite long-standing efforts to increase advance care planning, community prevalence of ACDs remains low, particularly for instructional ACDs. (apo.org.au)
If you want to control decisions about your health care, even if you become unable to make or to express them yourself, you will need an advance directive. (cabellhuntington.org)
Any time you are admitted to the care of a hospital, skilled nursing facility, home health care agency or hospice, you will be asked about advance directives. (cabellhuntington.org)
If you do not have an advance directive and become unable to make decisions for yourself, your physician or health care provider will consult with someone close to you about your care. (cabellhuntington.org)
An Advance Directive is a set of written instructions expressing how you want future health care decisions made if you are unable to make them yourself. (lodihealth.org)
Health Care Appointment is an advance directive in which you appoint someone to make medical decisions for you if the time ever comes when you cant make them yourself. (lodihealth.org)
Health Care Directive is an advance directive in which you say what forms of medical treatment you do or do not want if you become terminally ill or are in a persistent vegetative state. (lodihealth.org)
D) A progressive, debilitating illness that will be fatal and is in its advanced stages, and the principal is consistently and permanently unable to communicate, swallow food and water safely, care for the principal, and recognize the principal s family and other people, and there is no reasonable chance that the principal s underlying condition will improve. (onecle.com)
The discussion of advance care planning is not part of the established routine. (regenstrief.org)
These findings suggest there is a significant opportunity for improvement in advanced care planning in the clinical setting. (regenstrief.org)
Advance Care Planning in A Preoperative Clinic: A Retrospective Chart Review" was published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. (regenstrief.org)
Advance directives do have an impact on health care at the end of life, especially in regions of the country with high spending on end-of-life care, according to a University of Michigan study. (medicalxpress.com)
People who had completed advance directives stating their preferences for care were less likely to die in a hospital and more likely to receive palliative hospice care than similar decedents without advance directives. (medicalxpress.com)
Advance directives may help patients get the care they want if they prefer less aggressive care at the end of life, while also providing cost savings to the Medicare program , particularly in higher-spending regions of the country," said Lauren Hersch Nicholas, a U-M health economist who is the lead author of the study. (medicalxpress.com)
Accompanying greater use of palliative care, we found that Medicare expenditures for those with advance directives were significantly lower than for those without, but only in those regions that spent more than average per person on end-of-life care," she said. (medicalxpress.com)
In contrast, advance directives seemed to have little effect on care received by people living in regions of the country that have lower levels of medical spending at the end of life. (medicalxpress.com)
If you care about what may happen to you in your final days, take some time to complete an advance directive, and talk it over with those closest to you. (medicalxpress.com)
Advance directives can only influence care when the patient wants something different from what the local health care system would otherwise provide," Nicholas said. (medicalxpress.com)
So we examined the relationship of advance directives with the cost and aggressiveness of end-of-life care in geographic regions with high, medium, and low average expenditures for this type of care and found that advance directives made the biggest difference for patients living in regions with higher average levels of spending. (medicalxpress.com)
Among the standard advance directive group with no option already selected, 61 percent of patients selected comfort-oriented care. (healthcanal.com)
Furthermore, patients in all groups expressed equally high satisfaction with their advance care planning, suggesting that patients were content to be guided in making such decisions. (healthcanal.com)
Only a minority of dialysis patients will complete any AD, but the completion of written AD forms is only one element in the process of advance care planning. (asnjournals.org)
A Pennsylvania Medical Society survey showed that fewer than 20 percent of Pennsylvania adults have prepared an advance health care directive. (compassionandchoices.org)
If advance directives were to become the norm - if say, 80 percent of adult Americans had them - we'd be offering more personalized and humane care for far less money. (compassionandchoices.org)
To describe Chinese nursing home residents' knowledge of advance directive (AD) and end-of-life care preferences and to explore the predictors of their preference for AD. (unboundmedicine.com)
The program provided information about advance directives, hospice care, legal and financial concerns, long-term care insurance and funeral pre-planning. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)
This is the best form of advance health care directive, said Joe Zalot, a staff ethicist with the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)
A similar problem exists with Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST), which spell out, in advance, to a physician or other health care provider, specific treatments one wants during a medical emergency. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)
They are binding on all doctors - not just the doctor who signed the document or the doctors in that hospital - even years down the road, Miner said, and typically override any existing health care power of attorney or other advance directive that the patient has filled out. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)
Advance care planning is the process of planning ahead for ones future healthcare while one still has the ability to make and communicate these decisions. (hrb.ie)
This study will find out if the advance care planning programme and a palliative care educational programme for staff has a positive impact on the quality of care at end-of-life. (hrb.ie)
It is important that we understand the value and impact of advance care directives and advance planning in long term care settings prior to supporting a national policy on standard implementation. (hrb.ie)
In this study, we determined the prevalence of advance directives specifying treatment limitations and/or surrogate decision-makers in the last year of life and their association with end-of-life care among nursing home residents. (dgfn.eu)
For patients receiving dialysis who had both a treatment-limiting directive and surrogate decision-maker, the adjusted frequency of hospitalization, intensive care unit admission, intensive procedures, and inpatient death were lower by 13%, 17%, 13%, and 14%, respectively, and hospice use and dialysis discontinuation were 5% and 7% higher compared with patients receiving dialysis lacking both components. (dgfn.eu)
It is unclear whether the low prevalence of advance directives in this population reflects lack of engagement in advance care planning or patient preferences for aggressive care (2). (dgfn.eu)
Because of uncertainty about the reasons for low use of advance directives and a lack of compelling data regarding their effectiveness in this population, efforts to expand advance care planning among patients with ESRD have not gained traction. (dgfn.eu)
and ( 3 ) how often patients with ESRD who had a treatment-limiting directive received care that was consistent with their advance directive. (dgfn.eu)

A durable power of attorney, the other part of an advance directive, is a legal document in which one person gives another (called the agent or proxy) legal authority to act or speak on his or her behalf should he or she become debilitated and not able to make decisions on his or her own. (encyclopedia.com)
Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital utilizes an Advance Directive for Healthcare form that incorporates a Durable Power of Attorney for Healthcare and Living Will information. (svmh.com)
I have a Welfare Power of Attorney, do I need an Advance Medical Directive? (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
In West Virginia, a living will and a medical power of attorney are advance directives. (cabellhuntington.org)
Two documents make up an advance directive: a living will and a healthcare power of attorney. (rosemed.com)
Treatment facilities are also required to place a copy of the mental health advance directive or power of attorney in the patient's mental health record. (jaapl.org)

To assess the effects of a multimedia educational intervention about advance directives (ADs) and cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on the knowledge, attitude and activity toward ADs and life-sustaining treatments of elderly veterans. (nih.gov)
Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Directive (DNR) is an advance medical directive pertaining to the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which is a medical order based on informed consent, signed by or on behalf of an individual and a physician, a physician assistant, or a nurse practitioner, directing emergency medical services personnel to not perform resuscitative measures in the event of a respiratory or cardiac arrest or malfunction. (sd.gov)

Advance Instruction for Mental Health Treatment is a legal document that tells physicians and mental health providers what mental health treatments you would want and what treatments you would not want if you are unable to decide for yourself. (firsthealth.org)
We devised a study to assess physicians' compliance with hypothetical advance directives and further examine their clinical reasoning. (uptodate.com)
The American Academy of Family Physicians has more on advance directives . (hon.ch)
Littlejohn's family members signed advance directives and talked to their physicians and their family about their requests before they passed away. (baycare.org)
OBJECTIVES: To estimate the incidence of (compliance with) advance euthanasia directives of patients suffering from dementia in the Netherlands and to gain knowledge about the experiences of physicians. (eur.nl)
MEASUREMENTS: Physicians were interviewed about their demented patients who had an advance euthanasia directive. (eur.nl)

Generally speaking, living wills are created in advance. (legalmatch.com)

Instead, this work provides motivation for future research examining whether using default options in advance directives may improve important outcomes, including patients' receipt of wanted and unwanted services, resource use, survival, and quality of life. (healthcanal.com)

An advance directive outlines what your doctor should and should not do in the event that you become unable to make medical decisions on your own. (bellaonline.com)
An advance healthcare directive , also known as living will , personal directive , advance directive , medical directive or advance decision , is a legal document in which a person specifies what actions should be taken for their health if they are no longer able to make decisions for themselves because of illness or incapacity. (wikipedia.org)
Any person over age 18 who can make his or her own decisions can complete an advance directive form. (clevelandclinic.org)
Advance directives take effect only when you die or if you become unable to make decisions. (cancer.ca)
Some people with advanced cancer want to be involved in decisions about a funeral or memorial service. (cancer.ca)
Remember however, there are no precise definitions of these terms but they are all advance decisions about medical or surgical treatment. (citizensinformation.ie)
An advance directive is a document in which a competent person states medical decisions for the future. (nationalmssociety.org)
Advance directives are legal documents that help protect patients' rights of self-determination (the right to make one's own medical decisions, including the right to accept or refuse treatment). (encyclopedia.com)
What types of decisions can I make in an advance directive? (kidney.org)
Difficult end-of-life treatment decisions: do other factors trump advance directives? (uptodate.com)
Decisions by faculty and residents were not consistent with the advance directive in 65% of cases. (uptodate.com)
CONCLUSIONS: Internists frequently made treatment decisions that were not consistent with an explicit advance directive. (uptodate.com)
Having an advance healthcare directive will also help loved ones if they're faced with making decisions for you. (sutterhealth.org)
There is a website already in existence called " My Directives " assuring the visitor that since somebody is going to make decisions about the end of your life, why not let it be you? (all.org)
If a parent or senior loved one appointed you in an advance directive to make his or her medical decisions, would you know what to do? (aplaceformom.com)
It's important to find out in advance what that person would want or not want under a variety of scenarios… When it comes to making life-or-death decisions for someone else, clarity is critical. (aplaceformom.com)
But in connection with National Healthcare Decisions Day, we look at advance planning for terminal illness. (keranews.org)
Therefore, whilst your Welfare Attorney has wide-reaching powers, including consenting or withholding consent to medical treatment, an Advance Medical Directive can be a source of moral and legal comfort to them when making such decisions. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
To mark National Healthcare Decisions Day, Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County will present a program on advance directives at 12:45 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16, at the Darien Senior Center , 30 Edgerton St. (dariennewsonline.com)
An advance directive is a written legal document listing who you wish to make medical decisions for you if you are ever unable to speak for yourself," said Locke. (dariennewsonline.com)
An advance directive is a legal form which allows people to name a surrogate to make medical decisions for them. (baycare.org)
The underlying assumption is that a great deal of the stress and complexities of making decisions about therapy will be solved if the patient specifies his or her preferences in advance. (acpinternist.org)
Advance decisions in secondary mental health services. (ebscohost.com)
Few patients complete advance decisions in mental health services. (ebscohost.com)
This article reviews the potential clinical benefits of advance decisions, patients' attitudes towards them and barriers that impede implementation. (ebscohost.com)
Some practical suggestions are offered on how advance decisions can be promoted. (ebscohost.com)
In the event you lose the ability to make decisions for yourself, it is important to have an advance directive in place. (cabellhuntington.org)
As a result, clinicians have no way of knowing what type of directives to recommend for patients to help them make and document these difficult decisions. (healthcanal.com)
Recently, I was talking with a friend about VSED and advanced end-of-life decisions for dementia patients. (agingcare.com)
Little is known about the relation between the content of advance directives and downstream treatment decisions among patients receiving maintenance dialysis. (dgfn.eu)

DESIGN: Advance directives placed in the medical records were abstracted for date of completion and content of additional written instructions. (rand.org)
The primary study outcome measure was Advance Directive completion rate. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Prior studies have demonstrated that disparities in Advance Directive completion rates may be related to race, level of income, and level of education. (clinicaltrials.gov)
Completion of advance directives was slightly higher among patients with chronic illnesses (38 percent) than among healthy adults (33 percent), and much higher among patients 65 and older (46 percent) than among younger adults (32 percent), the findings showed. (hon.ch)

An Advance Healthcare Directive, sometimes known as a 'Living will', is a statement about the type and extent of medical or surgical treatment you want in the future, on the assumption that you will not be able to make that decision at the relevant time. (citizensinformation.ie)
An Advance Healthcare Directive may be valid and enforceable because by making such a statement you may have withdrawn your consent to specific medical or surgical treatment . (citizensinformation.ie)
What is an Advance Healthcare Directive? (citizensinformation.ie)
But few of them put that information into an advance healthcare directive document that can be referenced in case a medical situation arises where they are unable to speak for themselves. (sutterhealth.org)
Look at your advance healthcare directive as a living document," Chan says. (sutterhealth.org)
Medicare pays for an appointment specifically to talk with your doctor about your advance healthcare directive and related issues. (sutterhealth.org)
In addition to an advance healthcare directive, other official forms can prove helpful if you become very ill or near the end of your life. (sutterhealth.org)
Unlike the advance healthcare directive or healthcare agent documents, this form needs your physician's signature to be valid. (sutterhealth.org)
He shared the end-of-life healthcare directive he has in place, and I really like it. (agingcare.com)

Advance directives guide choices for doctors and caregivers if you're terminally ill, seriously injured, in a coma, in the late stages of dementia or near the end of life. (mayoclinic.org)
The authors of the paper 'Advance euthanasia directives: a controversial case and its ethical implications' articulate concerns and reasons with regard to the conduct of euthanasia in persons with dementia based on advance directives. (bmj.com)
We will outline two concerns with their reasoning by drawing on empirical research and by providing reasons that contradict their assumptions about competence of people with dementia and the (un)importance of happiness in reasoning about advance directives of people with dementia. (bmj.com)
In a recent post , we discussed an emerging debate about advance directives: Should people be able to request-and count on-VSED (voluntarily stopping eating and drinking) in the event of future dementia? (agingcare.com)
He has developed a "Natural Dying Living Will" that he describes as "an ironclad strategy" for dealing with advanced Alzheimer's dementia and unbearable end-of-life pain. (agingcare.com)

Advance directives were created in response to the increasing sophistication and prevalence of medical technology. (wikipedia.org)
The term living will is also the commonly recognised vernacular in many countries, especially the U.K. Advance directives were created in response to the increasing sophistication and prevalence of medical technology. (wikipedia.org)
They also assessed demographic data on these 808 patients, as well as the prevalence and content of advance directives. (eurekalert.org)
Objective To establish the prevalence of patients with advance directives in a family practice, and to describe patients' perspectives on a family doctor's role in initiating discussions about advance directives. (cfp.ca)
Main outcome measures The prevalence of advance directives in the patient population was determined, and the patients' expectations regarding the role of their family doctors were elucidated. (cfp.ca)
Our study aimed to establish the prevalence of advance directives in our patient population, and to elucidate our patients' expectations regarding the role of their family doctors. (cfp.ca)

Keep in mind, laws about advance directives vary by state, so you should speak with your attorney and your physician to make sure that the directives you have in place are clear and legally binding. (bellaonline.com)
Laws about advance directives are different in each state. (familydoctor.org)
Laws about advance directives differ from province to province. (cancer.ca)
The Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provides laws for Advance Healthcare Directives. (citizensinformation.ie)
It is important to speak with a lawyer or social worker, or get a copy of your state's advance directive forms so you will understand your state's specific laws. (kidney.org)
Every state now has laws authorizing one or more forms of advance directives. (all.org)
But, because advance directive laws are different in every state, you may find one helpful. (rosemed.com)
more to the point, most of these laws provide broad legal immunity to doctors who, in good faith and consistent with clinical standards, decline to follow, in whole or in part, a patient's advance treatment instructions as documented in a PAD. (jaapl.org)

Professor Cantor of Rutgers University School of Law has created a scholarly and sophisticated, yet quite accessible, legal analysis of the subject of advance directives. (foyles.co.uk)
Be willing to drop the subject of advance directives if your loved one gets angry or upset, but explain that you hope to discuss it another time. (harvard.edu)

This scenario highlights a situation that many people fear and has fuelled the debate about advance directives. (cmf.org.uk)

How can I complete an advance directive? (clevelandclinic.org)
After you choose options and you know who will speak on your behalf, complete an Advance Directive to ensure that everything is legal. (svmh.com)
Serious illnesses and accidents can strike unexpectedly, so Chan recommends that everyone 18 and older complete an advance directive. (sutterhealth.org)
Your healthcare provider will also know about the specific steps you need to take in your state to complete an advance directive, and can help you. (rosemed.com)

We encourage you to have a copy of your advance directives placed in your medical record at Cleveland Clinic. (clevelandclinic.org)
Copies of any advance directive you make can be given to a lawyer, your healthcare team (to be put in your medical file) or next of kin. (cancer.ca)
Advance directives control the provision or withholding of medical treatments. (nationalreview.com)
RESULTS: From the medical records of 4804 patients, a total of 688 directives were collected from 569 patients. (rand.org)
CONCLUSION: Advance directives placed in the medical records of seriously ill patients often did not guide medical decision-making beyond naming a healthcare proxy or documenting general preferences in a standard living will format. (rand.org)
Today, medical advances have made it possible for people with chronic illness to have successful treatment, improving life expectancy and quality of life. (kidney.org)
In the event that you cannot speak for yourself, Advance Directives act as a guide for family, friends, and medical staff. (firsthealth.org)
Advance Directives refer to legal documents that specify the kind of medical treatment you want if you are unable to speak for yourself. (firsthealth.org)
Saundra Buys, MD, a medical oncologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute, compares advance directives to fire insurance for your home. (abcnews4.com)
And now that your advance directive is possibly going to go viral with all your other medical records, who is to say exactly what will be found or how it will be interpreted when you can no longer speak for yourself? (all.org)
Sam Baker talked with Dr. Robert Fine of Baylor Medical Center about advance directives. (keranews.org)
Creating an Advance Medical Directive, which is also known as a Living Will, instructs your doctors and loved ones in relation to medical treatment you are willing to accept or not willing to accept should you be in position where you are no longer able to communicate your choices to your doctor, for example, if you are in a catastrophic accident. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
How do I create an Advance Medical Directive? (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
Once our solicitors have the required information we will draft your Advance Medical Directive. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
Once your draft Advance Medical Directive is approved by you, we can arrange for the document to be signed. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
The Advance Medical Directive requires to be signed and witnessed. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
It is also very important that loved ones are made aware of the Advance Medical Directive. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
If you have an Advance Medical Directive, your Welfare Attorney can act in the satisfaction that you have considered carefully what you would want to happen in certain circumstances and have made a decision and expressed that choice in a written statement. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
Can I Update my Advance Medical Directive? (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
You can change or revoke your Advance Medical Directive at any time whilst you have capacity. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
We would recommend that you review your Advance Medical Directive every few years, or in the event that there are changes to your health. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
If you wish to amend your Directive, you should prepare a new Directive, notify your medical practitioners and loved ones, and then destroy the previous version. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
If you wish to revoke your Directive, you should advise your medical practitioners and loved ones that you wish to revoke the document, then destroy the Directive in place. (thompsons-scotland.co.uk)
Kessler, Daniel Philip and McClellan, Mark B., Advance Directives and Medical Treatment at the End of Life (September 2003). (ssrn.com)
Cantor examines the medical, legal, and moral issues surrounding advance medical directives-those devices aimed at controlling medical intervention during the dying process after the patient is no longer competent. (foyles.co.uk)
The medical system is legally obligated to provide all medical treatments in an emergency, including cardiac resuscitation and advanced life support, unless there has been legal documentation, such as an AHCD. (pscpartners.org)
A medical directive lets family and the medical teams know what treatments you want or don't want. (pscpartners.org)
It will also allow providers to download advance directives directly into their own electronic medical record system. (dykema.com)
Through a law known as the Patient Self Determination Act , all hospitals and other healthcare institutions must inform patients of their rights to agree to or refuse medical treatment and to make advance directives. (cabellhuntington.org)
If you currently have an Advance Directive document, please provide our Medical Records Department with a copy. (illinois.edu)
Only after patients had the opportunity to change any of their stated preferences did the directives become parts of the patients' medical records. (healthcanal.com)
These patients completed two generic (the Centre for Bioethics Living Will and the Medical Directive) and one disease-specific (the Dialysis Living Will) AD in a randomized cross-over trial. (asnjournals.org)
the Dialysis Living Will and Centre for Bioethics Living Will scored significantly higher than the Medical Directive). (asnjournals.org)
Advances in medical technology are truly miraculous, and we are reaping their benefits through longer and healthier life spans. (compassionandchoices.org)
Seniors and their loved ones are increasingly asking such questions as the twilight of life approaches, especially in difficult circumstances marked by advances in technology, higher medical costs and the dehumanization of medicine. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)

While at first sight, advance directives seem to raise few ethical problems, closer examination shows they need to be treated with caution. (cmf.org.uk)

The override features typical of PADs are clearly illustrated in the language of one of the newest PAD statutes to be enacted in the United States: Pennsylvania's mental health advance directive and powers of attorney law (Act 194), which became effective on January 30, 2005. (jaapl.org)

An advance directive is a legal document. (familydoctor.org)
Many standard legal forms for advance directives contain only one of these two types. (nationalmssociety.org)
This law requires that hospitals, nursing homes and other health agencies give all patients information about their right to have a legal document called an advance directive. (kidney.org)
Here is the typical legal order of potential decision makers if there is no advance directive in place: guardian, spouse, an adult son or daughter, a parent, an adult sibling, an adult grandchild, or an adult relative or close friend who is in close contact with the person and is familiar with the patient's activities, health, and religious or moral beliefs and lastly the guardian of the estate. (kidney.org)
It's important that everyone weighs up the strengths and limitations of such directives, as well as understands their legal status. (cmf.org.uk)
In some cases, it is not possible to avoid legal disputes of a living will even when directives are very clear and straight-forward. (legalmatch.com)
An advance directive is a legal document that clearly states, in writing, how you want to be medically cared for if you can no longer speak or act for yourself because of accident or illness. (rosemed.com)
Only about one-third of the general population has completed advance directives, even though these forms are free, straightforward, easily available and legal in every state. (compassionandchoices.org)
1 - 4 PADs provide two legal devices-mental health advance instructions and proxy decision-makers-that can be used, separately or together, to refuse or consent to specific types of treatment during a future mental health crisis. (jaapl.org)

In your advance directive, you can choose to receive pain medicines for comfort even if you refuse other treatments. (kidney.org)
The study, which is among the first to have national data linking end-of-life spending, treatments, and patients' advance directives, is based on a sample of 3,302 Medicare beneficiaries from the Health and Retirement Study, a nationally representative longitudinal study of more than 30,000 older Americans conducted by the U-M Institute for Social Research (ISR). (medicalxpress.com)

A do-not-resuscitate (DNR) order can also be part of an advance directive. (familydoctor.org)
People usually make such directives to limit the treatment given in order not to prolong life, for example, a Do Not Resuscitate Order. (citizensinformation.ie)
Caution: Do Not Resuscitate Orders and Advance Directives may not be recognized by emergency personnel on an emergency call or in an emergency room. (svmh.com)
SMITH: Do not resuscitate directives, do you think they're immoral? (geripal.org)
Another type of advance directive is the Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order. (aplaceformom.com)
Does the patient have an advance directive or a do-not-resuscitate order? (compassionandchoices.org)
Another advance directive is a do not resuscitate order (DNR), he said. (catholicvoiceomaha.com)

I have made this advance directive, in part, to ease any emotional anguish of those who have to determine if intervention should be undertaken and to place the responsibility for the decision solely upon myself. (duhaime.org)

A directive which specifies the kind of treatment you want is unlikely to be enforceable, especially if it conflicts with the doctor's clinical decision. (citizensinformation.ie)
The publication was supported by Clinical and Translational Science Award Grant Number UL1 TR000135 from the National Center for Advancing Translational Science. (eurekalert.org)
We review the current literature on nurse-initiated protocols, validated emergency department clinical scoring systems, and the merging of the two to create Advanced Nursing Directives (ANDs). (hindawi.com)
The process of developing a clinical pathway for children presenting to our pediatric emergency department (PED) with suspected appendicitis will be used to demonstrate the successful integration of validated clinical scoring systems into practice through the use of Advanced Nursing Directives. (hindawi.com)
Finally, examples of 2 other Advanced Nursing Directives for common clinical PED presentations will be provided. (hindawi.com)
However, the study does not yet tell us whether we should use advance directives with default options in clinical practice. (healthcanal.com)

Approximately4600 people with an advance directive of the NVVE (a refusal of treatment, an advance euthanasia directive or a directive to appoint a representative) and approximately 1200 people with a will to live statement (explicitly against euthanasia) of the NPV. (emgo.nl)
RESULTS: Approximately 2,200 demented patients with an advance euthanasia directive die annually after being treated by a physician who knows about this directive. (eur.nl)
In 76% of such cases, compliance with the directive was discussed, but euthanasia was seldom performed. (eur.nl)
In two-thirds of the cases of demented nursing home patients with an advance euthanasia directive, the physician was able to identify during the course of the disease a situation for which the patient had intended the directive. (eur.nl)

It is unlikely that such a directive would be enforceable as it does not take account of the likely success of the treatment or of the costs involved. (citizensinformation.ie)
There is no doubt that an advance directive is not enforceable if it specifies doing something which is illegal. (citizensinformation.ie)
For example, an advance directive stating that you want to be given medication which will hasten your death would not be enforceable. (citizensinformation.ie)

And a frail 90-year-old with an advanced, progressive condition may have very specific preferences for his last days. (aarp.org)
The advance directive or "living will" has become an accepted framework for patients to delineate their own preferences about what treatment they would or would not want when faced with a life-threatening disorder. (acpinternist.org)
Having an advance directive had no effect on whether a patient maintained or shifted his or her initial preferences about therapies. (acpinternist.org)
Completely agree there should be a section on advance directives that captures patient preferences for leeway (step 4 above). (geripal.org)
Life-sustaining treatment preferences of hemodialysis patients: implications for advance directives. (asnjournals.org)
The purpose of this study was to describe the life-sustaining treatment preferences of dialysis patients and to compare the acceptability of two generic and a disease-specific advance directive (AD). (asnjournals.org)

A living will is one form of advance directive, leaving instructions for treatment. (wikipedia.org)
A living will usually provides specific directives about the course of treatment healthcare providers and caregivers are to follow. (wikipedia.org)
A good advance directive describes the kind of treatment you would want, depending on how sick you are. (familydoctor.org)
Advance directives usually tell your doctor that you don't want certain kinds of treatment. (familydoctor.org)
People with advanced cancer have the right to refuse treatment. (cancer.ca)
However, life-saving advances sometimes mean watching someone you love being kept alive when you are not sure what his or her choice would have been about the treatment being given. (kidney.org)
Without an advance directive, your family may have to go to court to have treatment stopped. (kidney.org)
With an advance directive, one person's desire for a particular style of treatment demands that others provide it. (cmf.org.uk)
Geller J. The use of advance directives by persons with serious mental illness for psychiatric treatment. (springer.com)
Miller R. Advance directives for psychiatric treatment: a view from the trenches. (springer.com)
Backlar P, McFarland B. A survey on use of advance directives for mental health treatment in Oregon. (springer.com)
But considerable research has highlighted that choices about treatment frequently change, and advance directives often fail to accurately forecast what a patient will want when actually experiencing a severe illness. (acpinternist.org)
In high-spending regions, adjusted spending on patients with treatment-limiting advance directives was $33,933, while spending for patients without these directives was $39,518. (medicalxpress.com)
Demographic profiles and attitudes towards advance directives and life-sustaining treatment. (hkmj.org)
Among patients receiving dialysis, we linked the content of advance directives to Medicare claims to ascertain site of death and treatment intensity in the last month of life. (dgfn.eu)
In the last year of life, 36% of nursing home residents receiving dialysis had a treatment-limiting directive, 22% had a surrogate decision-maker, and 13% had both in adjusted analyses. (dgfn.eu)
Among nursing home residents receiving dialysis, treatment-limiting directives and surrogates were associated with fewer intensive interventions and inpatient deaths, but were in place much less often than for nursing home residents with other serious illnesses. (dgfn.eu)
Among nursing home residents without ESRD, two thirds have an advance directive and more than half have a treatment-limiting advance directive (11). (dgfn.eu)
Although it is recognized that nursing home residents with ESRD have limited life expectancy (12), it is not known how frequently they complete advance directives requesting treatment limitations or naming a surrogate. (dgfn.eu)

If you are admitted to the hospital, the hospital staff will probably talk to you about advance directives. (familydoctor.org)
In two cases, patients may have changed an inconsistent directive after discussion with hospital staff. (rand.org)
Even if you're not nor have ever been a patient at a FirstHealth hospital, you CAN have your Advance Directives on file for easy access if needed. (firsthealth.org)
After your Advance Directives are on file at the hospital you CAN change them anytime you want by simply sending a letter to the hospital Health Information Management Department or by sending in new documents. (firsthealth.org)
Maureen Kroning, EdD, RN, of Nyack (N.Y.) College and Good Samaritan Hospital presents her hospital's experience with developing an inservice educational program to provide nurses with needed information on advance directives. (newswise.com)
Dr. Fine: When you go into the hospital, you are offered the opportunity to create an advanced directive if you don't have one. (keranews.org)
In a large study of patients with advanced directives in major American hospitals, it was found that only about a quarter of the time did the hospital know what was in the advanced directive. (keranews.org)
This was devastating for our family, but my parents had completed advance directive forms," said Littlejohn, who is a communications coordinator at BayCare's St. Joseph's Hospitals and South Florida Baptist Hospital. (baycare.org)
An advance directive signed by the patient states a preference for "Comfort Measures Only," and specifically states that she does not want to be transferred to the hospital. (geripal.org)
Of course no advance directive can foresee every possible situation but this woman seems to have decided that going to the hospital for whatever reason was unacceptable to her. (geripal.org)
If you are in the hospital and are interested in making an advance directive, talk to the hospital staff about getting more information and about the forms you need to fill out. (rosemed.com)
Put it in Writing: Questions and Answers on Advance Directives , 10 page booklet by the American Hospital Association. (helpingyoucare.com)

You do not need a lawyer to complete advance directive forms. (clevelandclinic.org)
The forms are free and there is no cost to file your Advance Directives with the FirstHealth hospitals. (firsthealth.org)
Complimentary copies of Michigan advance directive forms are available from local Aspirus hospitals and clinics. (aspirus.org)
When filling out the directive, read the forms carefully and follow all the steps. (aspirus.org)
The forms for advance directives vary from state to state, but most follow the same basic format. (abcnews4.com)
We compared the implementation performance of 2 advance directive forms to determine which form could be more successfully disseminated. (jabfm.org)
Unadjusted analyses found no significant difference in offering of advance directive forms between groups. (jabfm.org)
The VA and a few other advance directives have a place for documenting leeway, but most advance directive forms do not. (geripal.org)
If an individual should change his/her mind about either the advance directive or the organ donation, the Peace of Mind Registry will also include forms to revoke a previous registration. (dykema.com)
Are there forms I can use to make an advance directive? (cabellhuntington.org)
These forms meet all of the rules for a formal advance directive in West Virginia. (cabellhuntington.org)
Make sure to fill out both forms to have a complete advance directive. (rosemed.com)
The next time you have a doctor's appointment, ask about getting the advance directive forms you need. (rosemed.com)
To help, the society offers forms and instructions at www.pamedsoc.org/advancedirectives . (compassionandchoices.org)

Individuals in Michigan will be among the first in the nation to be able to electronically upload or send via snail mail, their signed advance directive and organ donation documents to an accessible centralized Registry. (dykema.com)

The witness may include anyone except your physician, family members, or the person(s) you're naming as decision maker in the advance directives. (clevelandclinic.org)
Controlling for satisfaction at enrollment and physician, patient, and visit factors, discussing advance directives was associated with greater satisfaction with the physician (P =.052). (nih.gov)

In addition, having an advance directive will take a tremendous amount of pressure off loved ones who are already emotionally devastated by your illness. (bellaonline.com)
Winick B. Advance directive instruments for those with mental illness. (springer.com)
She is an instructor at the University of Pennsylvania's Palliative and Advanced Illness Research Center. (hon.ch)
Do it now, well in advance of any life-threatening event or illness. (rosemed.com)
Advance directives are often promoted for patients with serious illness such as ESRD as a means to avoid interventions that are unwanted or of limited benefit. (dgfn.eu)

However, by the late 1980s, public advocacy groups became aware that many people remained unaware of advance directives [17] and even fewer actually completed them. (wikipedia.org)
People who are seriously or terminally ill are more likely to have an advance directive. (familydoctor.org)
To study advance directives comprehensively a cohort of about 5800 people with one (or more) of the 4 most common advance directives was formed in 2005. (emgo.nl)
Important reasons for people with one or more advance directives NVVE to formulate an AD is that they wanted to prevent suffering and dependency, that they want to bring about self-determination (%) and that they want to maintain their sense of dignity. (emgo.nl)
People are not required to prepare an advance directive. (baycare.org)
A study of people 65 and older, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, noted that filling out advance directives is a multistep process to which familiar stages of behavioral change apply: precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, and maintenance. (harvard.edu)
The majority of people visiting preoperative testing clinics before an elective surgery do not have an advance directive (AD) in case of surgical complications. (regenstrief.org)

A living will contains written directives to healthcare providers. (nationalmssociety.org)

In a recent analysis, approximately half of dialysis patients had advance directives, but only 3% specifically addressed dialysis management at the end of life. (eurekalert.org)
Patients were far more likely to address other end-of-life interventions than dialysis in their advance directives. (eurekalert.org)
In this latest study, Molly Feely, MD (Mayo Clinic) and her colleagues looked at the actual advance directives of patients receiving dialysis. (eurekalert.org)
Among the 808 patients, 49% had advance directives, of which only 10.6% mentioned dialysis and only 3% specifically addressed dialysis management at the end of life. (eurekalert.org)
Unfortunately, our study revealed that the advance directives of our dialysis patients failed to address how our patients wanted to manage their dialysis at the end of life, an issue of critical importance to this population," said Dr. Feely. (eurekalert.org)
Dialysis units are not legally required to give you this information, but the National Kidney Foundation and many dialysis units believe dialysis patients should know about the right to make an advance directive . (kidney.org)
The National Kidney Foundation, the American Academy of Pediatrics and dialysis units believe dialysis patients including children and adolescents and their parents should know about the right to make an advance directive . (kidney.org)
Using national data from 2006 to 2007, we compared the content of advance directives among 30,716 nursing home residents receiving dialysis to 30,825 nursing home residents with other serious illnesses during the year before death. (dgfn.eu)

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate whether the lack of effect of advance directives (ADs) on decision-making in SUPPORT might arise, in part, from the content of the actual documents. (rand.org)

[13] In the U.S., The Patient Self-Determination Act (PSDA) [14] went into effect in December 1991, and required healthcare providers (primarily hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies) to give patients information about their rights to make advance directives under state law. (wikipedia.org)
These advance directives may not be officially recognized by the law in your state. (familydoctor.org)
It is not possible to state with absolute certainty that such a directive would be enforced because this depends on exactly what it says and whether or not it addresses the precise circumstances you face. (citizensinformation.ie)
Advance directive requirements vary greatly from state to state, and we advise you to consult an attorney when creating your plan. (nationalmssociety.org)
Advance directive documents are legally recognized in every state, although each state has established its own parameters for the use of these tools. (vitas.com)
Therefore, it is important to state your personal views about tube feeding in your Advance Directives. (augustahealth.com)
Many state … conferences have even provided their own advance directives that conform. (physiciansforlife.org)

Use the Advanced search for more specific terms. (mja.com.au)

There are also private companies trying to do this for patients and make it possible to store these advanced directives online. (keranews.org)
How do I make an advance directive? (cabellhuntington.org)

Dr. Fine: In Texas law, really the patient does, through their advanced directive - unless they are asking the doctor to do something that the doctor would consider absolutely morally wrong or illegal. (keranews.org)
Advance directives are widely considered to be essential tools in protecting patient autonomy, particularly at the end of life. (cfp.ca)
How much leeway does the patient provide the surrogate for overriding the advance directive? (geripal.org)

Baker: Does an advanced directive have to require money or an attorney? (keranews.org)

Ask your doctor for an advance directive form. (bellaonline.com)
The living will is the oldest form of advance directive. (wikipedia.org)
You can use an advance directive form or tell your doctor that you don't want to be resuscitated. (familydoctor.org)
Baker: A living will is one form of an advanced directive. (keranews.org)
When I was given the consent form for my heart transplant, I was asked if I had an advance directive . (medium.com)

We will record selections that patients made on their advance directives about 4 specific life-sustaining interventions. (clinicaltrials.gov)

Conclusion Advance directives were not routinely addressed in the family practice. (cfp.ca)
Although recommended in practice guidelines (7), available data suggest that only one in three patients with ESRD has completed an advance directive (8-10). (dgfn.eu)

Any person 18 years of age or older can prepare an advance directive. (familydoctor.org)
But you can prepare for possible events with an advance directive. (abcnews4.com)
But, after losing her loved ones, she decided to immediately prepare her own advance directive. (baycare.org)
That's why it is helpful to prepare in advance what you want to happen if you can't speak for yourself. (lodihealth.org)

Preliminary data from the Alabama Veterans Rural Health Initiative study suggest that approximately 30% of rural Alabama veterans do not have an Advance Directive and want help completing one. (clinicaltrials.gov)
however, data from the simultaneously published MITRA-FR study showed no prognostic benefits for patients with advanced heart failure and severely enlarged left ventric. (medworm.com)
The study conducted interviews with next-of-kin after the survey respondent's death, during which they asked about the decedent's end-of-life experience, including the nature and type of their advance directives. (medicalxpress.com)
The majority had neither heard about advance directives (81%), nor discussed the issue with others (73%) before participating in this study. (hkmj.org)

Please call one the following for a free appointment if you would like help completing an Advance Directive. (aspirus.org)

Advance directives aren't just for older adults. (mayoclinic.org)
Yet, new research found that two-thirds of American adults haven't completed an advance directive. (hon.ch)
Various population estimates from the United States suggest that the proportion of adults who hold advance directives is between 5% and 25%, although this might increase with age and hospitalization. (cfp.ca)

The California Natural Death Act of 1976 states that to preserve " dignity and privacy … any adult person may execute a directive directing the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures in a terminal condition. (encyclopedia.com)
Accordingly, … and other organizations have actively participated in the nationwide debate on end-of-life decision making and on the pros and cons of various "advance directives. (physiciansforlife.org)
Amy Cirincione, Director of Social Services at Hospice of Humboldt, will explain the use of advance directives and why they are vital for end of life planning. (northcoastjournal.com)
The situation isn't an emergency, the benefits of pain relief and quality of life with surgery likely outweigh the harms, the advance directives are not a perfect fit and they also grant the surrogate leeway, and the surrogate represents the patients best interest well. (geripal.org)
Specifically, they found major differences between geographic regions in the relationship between advance directives and end-of-life spending. (medicalxpress.com)
To determine and examine the knowledge and attitudes of critically ill patients and their families about advance directives and know how family involvement in decision making at the end of life. (elsevier.es)
Advance directives empower individuals to manage the final chapter of life in a dignified manner true to their own values. (compassionandchoices.org)

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Incorporating advance care planning into family practice [see comment]. (1/306)

Relationships between various attitudes towards self-determination in health care with special reference to an advance directive. (2/306)

Advance directives are the solution to Dr Campbell's problem for voluntary euthanasia. (3/306)

A staff dialogue on do not resuscitate orders: psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and caregivers. (4/306)

Bone marrow transplant patients with life-threatening organ failure: when should treatment stop? (5/306)

Family consent, communication, and advance directives for cancer disclosure: a Japanese case and discussion. (6/306)

Survey of Japanese physicians' attitudes towards the care of adult patients in persistent vegetative state. (7/306)

A multimedia intervention on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advance directives. (8/306)

Advance Directives

Advance Directive Adherence

Living Wills

Advance Care Planning

Life Support Care

Proxy

Withholding Treatment

Legal Guardians

Mental Competency

Resuscitation Orders

Personal Autonomy

Terminal Care

Judicial Role

Patient Self-Determination Act

Right to Die

Medical Futility

Ethics, Medical

Euthanasia

Personhood

Patient Rights

Decision Making

Third-Party Consent

Attitude to Death

Euthanasia, Passive

Persistent Vegetative State

European Union

Patient Preference

Double Effect Principle

Judaism

Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation

Religion

Hospice Care

Hospitals, Religious

Dissent and Disputes

Forensic Psychiatry

Palliative Care

Physician-Patient Relations

Nursing Homes

Family

Mentally Ill Persons

Attitude to Health

Patient Advocacy

Beneficence

Physician's Role

Forms and Records Control

Terminally Ill

Legislation, Medical

Attitude of Health Personnel

Attitude

Questionnaires

Informed Consent

Communication Barriers

Hospitals, Military

Treatment Refusal

Patient Education as Topic

Patient Participation

Psychiatry

Cultural Diversity

Comprehension

Assisted Living Facilities

Germany

Homes for the Aged

Communication

Interviews as Topic

Public Opinion

Medical Staff, Hospital

Physicians

Maryland

Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice

Truth Disclosure

United States

Incorporating advance care planning into family practice [see comment]. (1/306)

Relationships between various attitudes towards self-determination in health care with special reference to an advance directive. (2/306)

Advance directives are the solution to Dr Campbell's problem for voluntary euthanasia. (3/306)

A staff dialogue on do not resuscitate orders: psychosocial issues faced by patients, their families, and caregivers. (4/306)

Bone marrow transplant patients with life-threatening organ failure: when should treatment stop? (5/306)

Family consent, communication, and advance directives for cancer disclosure: a Japanese case and discussion. (6/306)

Survey of Japanese physicians' attitudes towards the care of adult patients in persistent vegetative state. (7/306)

A multimedia intervention on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and advance directives. (8/306)

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