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Advance Directives
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Definition of 'Advance Directives'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) Common names: Advance Directives; Advance Directive; Directive, Advance; Directives, Advance; Medical Power of Attorney; Attorney Medical Power; Psychiatric Wills; Psychiatric Will; Will, Psychiatric; Wills, Psychiatric; Ulysses Contracts; Contract, Ulysses; Contracts, Ulysses; Ulysses Contract |
Sunday, November 22, 2009
29 Sep 2009 
OBJECTIVE: This study examined ethnic differences in end-of-life communication between Korean American and non-Hispanic White older adults using the Health Belief Model as a conceptual framework. METHOD: A cross-sectional design was employed to ... Read more...
The Terri Schiavo saga: ethical and legal aspects and implications for clinicians.
30 Aug 2009 On March 31, 2005, Terri Schiavo (born December 3, 1963) died -- the final complication of a cardiac arrest on February 25, 1990. Her death was preceded by the withdrawal of artificially administered hydration and nutrition through a feeding tube. ... Read more...
Advance health care directives: towards a coordinated European policy?
30 Aug 2009 The aim of this paper is to compare the different existing approaches to advance health care directives within the European context, and to explore the possibility of reaching a deeper consensus among countries on this subject. To this end, it first ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Advance Directives'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- A piece of my mind. Can we agree to disagree?
19 Oct 2009 - Live and let die. 5 Oct 2009
- Counterpoint: The Texas advance directives act is ethically flawed: medical futility disputes must be resolved by a fair process. 29 Sep 2009
- Point: The Texas advance directives act effectively and ethically resolves disputes about medical futility. 29 Sep 2009
- End-of-life communication: ethnic differences between Korean American and non-Hispanic White older adults. 29 Sep 2009
- The Terri Schiavo saga: ethical and legal aspects and implications for clinicians. 30 Aug 2009
- Saturday morning in the clinic. 30 Aug 2009
- Advance health care directives: towards a coordinated European policy? 30 Aug 2009
- [Patient autonomy at the end of life: "law regarding advance directives" confirms the previously assumed legal status] 30 Aug 2009
- Advance directives: the clinical nurse specialist as a change agent. 30 Aug 2009
- Effect of a supplement clarifying patients' intentions on doctors' willingness to follow the wishes of an agent with medical enduring power of attorney. 30 Aug 2009
- The effects of crisis plans for patients with psychotic and bipolar disorders: a randomised controlled trial.
7 Jul 2009 - Advance directive use and psychosocial characteristics: an analysis of patients enrolled in a psychosocial cancer registry. 29 Jun 2009
- Void in spiritual care. 29 Jun 2009
- Advance directives: evaluation of nurses' knowledge, attitude, confidence, and experience. 29 Jun 2009
- Disparities in late-life planning and treatment. 29 Jun 2009
- Doctor-patient communication about advance directives in metastatic breast cancer. 30 May 2009
- Advance decisions and the Mental Capacity Act. 30 May 2009
- Advance directives: binding or merely indicative? Incoherence of the Portuguese National Council of Ethics for the Life Sciences and insufficiencies of newly proposed regulation. 30 May 2009
- The influence of medical enduring power of attorney and advance directives on decision-making by Australian intensive care doctors. 30 May 2009
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Technical information about 'Advance Directives'
Definition: 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)
Descriptor UI: D016223
Alternative terms: Advance Directives; Advance Directive; Directive, Advance; Directives, Advance; Medical Power of Attorney; Attorney Medical Power; Psychiatric Wills; Psychiatric Will; Will, Psychiatric; Wills, Psychiatric; Ulysses Contracts; Contract, Ulysses; Contracts, Ulysses; Ulysses Contract; Health Care Power of Attorney; Healthcare Power of Attorney; Attorney Healthcare Power;
Related Mesh Headings: Right to Die; Resuscitation Orders; Advance Directive Adherence;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;
Tree Number: I01.880.604.583.020; N03.706.535.020; N04.590.233.624.124.050;
History Note: 1991