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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"End-of-life planning"”.
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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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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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New algorithms in machine learning with applications in personalized medicine
… counterfactuals all impact the performance of data-driven methods. In this thesis, with a fresh perspective from optimization, I revisit some of the well-known problems in statistics and machine learning, and develop new methods for prescriptive analytics. I show examples of how common …
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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 …