Proxy
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The clinical course of advanced dementia.

13 Oct 2009 BACKGROUND: Dementia is a leading cause of death in the United States but is underrecognized as a terminal illness. The clinical course of nursing home residents with advanced dementia has not been well described. METHODS: We followed 323 nursing ... Read more...

Self- and proxy-report agreement on the Stroke Impact Scale.

4 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to examine proxy-patient agreement on the domains of the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS), as per the proxy-proxy perspective. METHODS: Stroke patients were prospectively assessed by means of the NIH ... Read more...

[Circumcision for boys incapable of giving informed consent]

30 Jul 2009 The discussion on circumcision for children, as a ritual as well as a medically indicated intervention, is still being carried out as in the past in a very emotional and not always rational manner. The attempt to criminalize circumcision, even the ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Proxy'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The clinical course of advanced dementia. 13 Oct 2009
• Self- and proxy-report agreement on the Stroke Impact Scale. 4 Aug 2009
• [Circumcision for boys incapable of giving informed consent] 30 Jul 2009
• The vote of acute medical inpatients: a prospective study. 30 Jul 2009
• What do community-dwelling people with dementia need? A survey of those who are known to care and welfare services. 13 Jul 2009
• The real me? 29 Jun 2009
• Adherence to artesunate-amodiaquine combination therapy for uncomplicated malaria in children in Zanzibar, Tanzania. 15 Jun 2009
• Family decision-making in advanced dementia: narrative and ethics. 30 May 2009
• Parent-proxy ratings of pain before and after botulinum toxin type A treatment for children with spasticity and cerebral palsy. 30 May 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
• Letter to the editor. A case of malingering by proxy described in 1593. 21 May 2009
• Healthcare proxies of nursing home residents with advanced dementia: decisions they confront and their satisfaction with decision-making. 19 May 2009
• The Mental Capacity Act--a balance between protection and liberty. 29 Apr 2009
• Factors affecting life-sustaining treatment decisions by health care surrogates and proxies: assessing benefits and barriers. 29 Apr 2009
• Understanding advance decisions, mental capacity and proxy decision-making in medical treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Construct validity of the MMPI-2 restructured clinical (RC) scales: reply to Rouse, Greene, Butcher, Nichols, and Williams. 29 Apr 2009
• [Advance health care directives as seen by surgical patients] 29 Apr 2009
• Objective and subjective quality of life in adults with autism spectrum disorders in southern Spain. 29 Apr 2009
• [Medical care proxy for an aging woman] 30 Mar 2009

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Technical information about 'Proxy'

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

Descriptor UI: D019727

Alternative terms: Proxy; Proxies; Patient Agent; Agent, Patient; Agents, Patient;

Related Mesh Headings: Treatment Refusal; Third-Party Consent;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;

Tree Number: M01.380.600;

History Note: 99