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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"End of life treatment"”.
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Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors of Home Healthcare Patients Regarding End of Life Treatment Decisions
<p>The Patient Self-Determination Act of 1990 sought to respond to a public demand for increased autonomy for patients in the making of medical treatment decisions at the end of life. It sought to increase the use of advance directives (ADs) by requiring institutions to document their existence in …
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An Examination of the Influence of Socioeconomic Status and Race on End-of-Life Treatment Level Following a Palliative Intervention
The purpose of this study was to examine differences in treatment level at the end of life according to race and socioeconomic status and the extent a palliative intervention may change the course and cost of care. The study population included patients from the Medical Center of Central Georgia …
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Moral Agency, Moral Imagination, and Moral Community: Antidotes to moral distress, as reported by experienced ICU nurses regarding the withdrawal of aggressive treatment
… literature and increasingly in the literature of other health professions. Cases that cause nurses’ moral distress mentioned most frequently are those concerned with prolonging the dying process. Given the standard of aggressive treatment over comfort care that is typical in intensive care …
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HEALTH CARE, AGING, AND END OF LIFE: USING COMMUNITY BIOETHICS DIALOGUES TO PROMOTE INDIVIDUALIZED PERSONAL DECISIONS AND ADVANCE CARE PLANNING
… Joseph and Julia Quinlan could authorize removal of life support from their comatose daughter. Since that critical ruling, every state has passed legislation allowing individuals to articulate personal treatment preferences in anticipation of life’s end. However, only a small percentage of people …
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A Distinction Without A Moral Difference? An Essay On The Difference Between Palliative Sedation And Physician-Assisted Death
<p>Professionals engaged in palliative care have a responsibility to treat their patients by aggressively managing pain and certain kinds of suffering within legal and professional ethical boundaries. Many medical professionals and ethicists, rightly or wrongly, have considered the practices of …