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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"do not resuscitate"”.
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Alignment of Do-Not-Resuscitate Status with Patients’ Likelihood of Favorable Neurological Survival After In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest
… of life. Whether patients’ decisions to become Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) after a successful resuscitation are aligned with the likelihood of favorable neurological survival is unknown. Within Get With the Guidelines-Resuscitation, a prospective, observational, multicenter registry of U.S. …
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Do Not Resuscitate? The impact of standardised resuscitation documentation on the approach to hospital care in older patients
… of curative medicine. If these limitations are not considered pre-emptively, medical teams risk providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and other invasive treatments to patients who may not benefit, or, had they been given the choice in advance, would not have wanted the treatment on …
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The Influence of Hospital Policies and Culture on Do-Not-Resuscitate Decision-Making at the End of Life: A Sociological and Ethical Analysis
… physicians’ clinical and ethical approaches to do-notresuscitate (DNR) decision-making at the end of life. I explore this in the context of the evolution of the American medical profession that shifted medical decision-making power from paternalism to patient autonomy. Decades ago, the “doctor …
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End-of-life Care Practices in Two Cultures: A Comparative Ethical Analysis and Recommendations
… withdrawal and withholding of care, and Do Not Resuscitate/Advanced Directives/ Living Wills are explored.</p> <p>The study demonstrates that whereas end-of-life care practices in the United States are an artifact of a strong focus on patient autonomy, in Saudi Arabia physicians are more …
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Utilizing Clinical Decision Support within the Electronic Health Record to Screen for Palliative Care
… consumes a disproportionate share of healthcare dollars with studies indicating PCS can save hospitals approximately $1.3 million annually, for every 500 consults completed. Strategies to increase timelier referral are needed. Integration of electronic clinical decision support and utilization of …
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No Code and the Role of the Nurse: The Perception of the Older Adult
<p>The research objectives of this study were:<br> 1. To determine the knowledge of the older adult as it relates to the term "no code"/DNR.<br> 2. To describe the attitudes of the older adult related to the "no code"/DNR issue.<br> 3. To discuss perceptions of the older adult regarding the nurse's …
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An evaluation of the palliative care unit at Groote Schuur Hospital
… by the ED staff. This kind of service was not available in this tertiary, academic state hospital prior to that. Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate aspects of care at the Groote Schuur Hospital Palliative Care unit by designing a questionnaire based on the Liverpool Care Pathway …
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End of life decision making in a children's hospital : ethical and practice implications
… Identification of patients as dying, presence of do not resuscitate (DNR) orders, documentation of comfort care plans, whether end of life decisions were discussed with parents or caretakers, nature of diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the last 24 hours of life, and presence of pain and …
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A study on attitude to DNR and terminal care performance of clinical nurse
본 연구는 임상 간호사를 대상으로 DNR에 대한 태도와 임종간호 수행정도를 알아보고 이들 간의 관계를 규명하기 위한 서술적 상관관계 연구이다. 자료수집은 C 대학병원과 A 대학병원의 임상연구심의위원회(IRB, Institutional Review Board)의 승인을 받은 후, 2014년 9월 5일부터 9월 26일 까지 구조화된 설문지를 이용하여 실시하였다. 경기도 소재 2곳의 종합병원에서 근무하는 간호사 150명에게 설문지를 배부하여 150부가 모두 회수되었으며, 이중 응답이 불충분한 설문지 8부를 제외한 142부가 본 연구에서 …