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The Piedmont Triad Regional Advance Directive Project
I participated in a project to rewrite the advance directives in use at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The project quickly blossomed into an initiative to improve advance directives throughout the entire Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina. Many other hospitals and health care providers …
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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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Improving rates of advanced care planning discussion and documentation in the primary care setting : a DNP quality improvement study
Background: Advance Care Planning (ACP) documents enable patients to receive medical care that aligns with treatment preferences and goals. Discussions regarding ACP in primary care are often inadequate due to patient and provider barriers. The lack of completed ACP documents leads to patient care …
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What if I don’t want to live until the bitter end? Safeguarding the practice of Assisted Dying in the context of dementia
… in a perceived incompetent future, through an advance directive. However, some clinicians and other commentators have found advance euthanasia directives (AEDs) to be unfeasible in practice. It is of interest and concern whether AEDs can be appropriately safeguarded to protect individuals’ …
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Utilizing Clinical Decision Support within the Electronic Health Record to Screen for Palliative Care
… (X2 = 11.311, p =.02), language/presence of advance directive (X2 = 13.845, p =.008), and change of code status/loss of responsiveness (X2 =15.129, p</p> <p>Conclusion: Using a large sample, a number of statistically significant demographic, physiologic, and clinical variables were found that …
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Perceptions of persons with dementia on what matters in making decisions about advance care planning
… of dementia affecting them. Engaging PWDs in advance care planning (ACP) is a strategy to increase person-centered care at the end of life for this population. However, ACP engagement rates among PWDs continue to be substellar. Thus, a secondary analysis was performed with a qualitative …