Advance Care Planning - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium.

28 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: To explore the relation between the care provided in the final three months of life and the prevalence and types of end of life decisions in Belgium. Design Two year nationwide retrospective study, 2005-6 (SENTI-MELC study). SETTING: Data ... Read more...

End-of-life issues: difficult decisions and dealing with grief.

30 May 2009 People face many challenging psychosocial and spiritual issues as they approach the end of their lives, and caregivers need advice on how to help them. Choosing among treatment options, handling grief, addressing unfinished business, and coping with ... Read more...

Randomized controlled trial of SPIRIT: an effective approach to preparing African-American dialysis patients and families for end of life.

30 May 2009 This randomized controlled trial tested an intervention, Sharing Patients' Illness Representations to Increase Trust (SPIRIT), designed to enhance communication regarding end-of-life care between African Americans with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Advance Care Planning - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Refusal of treatment--the need for better communication. 30 Jul 2009
• Euthanasia and other end of life decisions and care provided in final three months of life: nationwide retrospective study in Belgium. 28 Jul 2009
• End-of-life issues: difficult decisions and dealing with grief. 30 May 2009
• Randomized controlled trial of SPIRIT: an effective approach to preparing African-American dialysis patients and families for end of life. 30 May 2009
• Video decision support tool for advance care planning in dementia: randomised controlled trial. 26 May 2009
• Providing culturally sensitive palliative care. 29 Apr 2009
• EfCCNa survey: European intensive care nurses' attitudes and beliefs towards end-of-life care. 29 Apr 2009
• Advance care planning: Beyond the living will. 29 Apr 2009
• Advance care planning preferences among dialysis patients and factors influencing their decisions. 27 Feb 2009
• Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) paradigm program in the hospice setting. 30 Jan 2009
• Should patients at the end of life be given the option of receiving CPR? 30 Jan 2009
• Incorporating spiritual beliefs into end-of-life care. 30 Dec 2008
• Perspectives of healthy elders on advance care planning. 30 Dec 2008
• Assessing staff needs for guidance on the Mental Capacity Act 2005. 30 Dec 2008
• Do-not-resuscitate. Orders in surgery: decreasing the confusion. 30 Dec 2008
• Empowering family members in end-of-life care decision making in the intensive care unit. 30 Dec 2008
• A comfortable place to say goodbye. 30 Dec 2008
• To be involved or not: factors that influence nurses' involvement in providing treatment decisional support in advanced cancer. 15 Nov 2008
• Advance care planning for decisional incapacity: keep it simple--find your patient's goal threshold in under 5 minutes. 15 Oct 2008
• Advance directives based on cognitive therapy: a way to overcome coercion related problems. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Advance Care Planning'

Definition: 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.

Descriptor UI: D032722

Alternative terms: Advance Care Planning; Advance Health Care Planning; Advance Medical Planning; Medical Planning, Advance; Planning, Advance Medical;

Related Mesh Headings: Terminal Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N04.590.233.624.124;

History Note: 2003; use ADVANCE DIRECTIVES 1999-2002