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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"Advance care planning"”.
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Advance care planning conversations: the family perspective
… experience includes making end-of-life (EOL) care decisions. Many families are unprepared to make such decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) creates an excellent context for laying the groundwork for these emotionally charged conversations. Hemodialysis patients, their families and healthcare …
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Promotion of Advance Care Planning for Individuals Experiencing Homelessness
… States experience disparities in access to advance care planning and may have significant unmet healthcare needs at the end of life, including unrelieved suffering. People who are homeless have increased morbidity and mortality risks, yet lack opportunities to discuss end-of-life …
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Feasibility of a Prognostication Aid to Promote Advance Care Planning.
Background: Advance care planning is a process which supports individuals in anticipating future care needs and being able to contribute to those decisions. By identifying those more likely to deteriorate, and require healthcare support, they can be empowered by having their preferences recognised. …
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Comparing Engagement in Advance Care Planning Between Stages of Heart Failure
… make decisions about treatment and end of life care, sometimes with little guidance as to the patients’ wishes. Advance care planning (ACP) is an ongoing process by which patients make decisions about their future healthcare. Only about one-third of patients with heart failure have participated …
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Advance care planning in primary care in the East of England
Advance care planning (ACP) is a process of decision making enabling patients to establish healthcare preferences in advance of potential incapacity. Defined in statute in the Mental Capacity Act 2005, it continues to gain importance in the UK, with professional guidance advocating its use in …
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Got Plans? A Regional Partnership for Advance Care Planning in North Carolina
… in recognizing our mortality and using advance care planning to achieve a "good death" if possible.
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Advance Care Planning in Advanced Heart Failure: A Relational Exploration of Autonomy
Advance care planning (ACP) is the process of understanding and sharing personal values and goals to ensure people with serious illnesses receive healthcare and treatment that is consistent with their goals and preferences. With the increasing number of treatment options available to patients …
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Dialysis nurses discussing advance care planning and death and dying with patients
… experiences of dialysis nurses when discussing advance care planning (ACP), and death and dying with their patients. More specifically, the study sought to understand the factors which impact on nurses’ ability to have such conversations. METHOD A qualitative descriptive approach underpinned the …
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Perceptions of persons with dementia on what matters in making decisions about advance care planning
… (PWDs) often do not receive person-centered care at end of life because they are excluded from conversations between healthcare providers and family caregivers, and are often unable to communicate their wishes at end of life because of the severity of dementia affecting them. Engaging PWDs in …
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Improving advance care planning and advance directive rates in primary care through a multidisciplinary approach
Background and Review of Literature: Lack of advance care planning (ACP) leads to unwanted treatments and suffering for patients, along with increased healthcare costs. Certain vulnerable populations are at increased risk for unnecessary suffering, including those with high emergency department …
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Cultural Aspects of End of Life Advance Care Planning for African Americans: An Ethnonursing Study
<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Advance directive completion rates among the general population are low. Studies report even lower completion rates among African Americans are impacted by demographic variables, cultural distinctives related to patient autonomy, mistrust of the healthcare system, …
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African American seniors’ perspectives on advance care planning: a virtue ethics community-based participatory research approach
… African-Americans are far less likely to write advance directives than white Americans but little is known about African-Americans’ perceptions of planning for who would speak for them if they were unable to speak in critical health situations. Health professionals’ lack of knowledge about …
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HEALTH CARE, AGING, AND END OF LIFE: USING COMMUNITY BIOETHICS DIALOGUES TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUALIZED PERSONAL DECISIONS AND ADVANCE CARE PLANNING
… preferences with family members or health-care providers. As a result, family members may be asked to make decisions under pressure without understanding the medical issues or the implications for the person. Numerous efforts focus on encouraging health-care professionals’ understanding of …
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The Roles of Estate Planning and Social Support in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Care
Advance Care Planning (ACP)– completing advance directives, discussing end of life care preferences, and assigning a durable power of attorney for healthcare – may be associated with improvements in quality of end of life care and more specifically with receiving care congruent with one’s wishes. …
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Natural language processing for precision clinical diagnostics and treatment
… diagnostics and treatment within the palliative care and serious illness field. I explore a variety of natural language processing methods, including deep learning, rule-based, and classic machine learning, and applied to the identication of documentation reflecting advanced care planning …
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Go Wish- Pediatrics : Pilot Study of a Conversation Tool in Pediatric Palliative Care
… and inconsistent communication by health care providers makes advance care planning difficult in pediatrics.<br /> Design: A mixed methods design was utilized to evaluate the effectiveness of an advance care planning conversation tool, <em>Go Wish- Pediatrics</em>, on the emotional …
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A critical realist evaluation of end of life care in care homes.
Numbers of advance care plans and unnecessary admissions to hospital at the end of life are outcomes commonly used to determine the quality of end of life care in UK care homes. However, there is currently a sparsity of research systematically exploring the underlying processes behind these …
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Evaluation of the acceptability and validity of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide in oncology patients in South Africa
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is the process through which a health care professional (HCP) guides a patient with a life-threatening illness to better understand their disease and to make value-concordant decisions for their future medical care including their end-of-life (EOL) care. The …
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Early palliative care for people with advanced illnesses: research into practice
Identifying people with advanced illnesses whose health is deteriorating, assessing their needs and planning care proactively with them are healthcare priorities given the demographic trend of ageing populations in the UK and internationally. Over the past 10 years (2004-2014), I have led a series …
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