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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"end-of-life decision making"”.
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End of life decision making in a children's hospital : ethical and practice implications
Aims: To evaluate end of life practices among hospitalised children who died of HIV/AIDS. Design: Retrospective chart review. Setting: A public, secondary and tertiary children's teaching hospital in a developing country. Patients: A consecutive series of in-patient deaths among HIV-infected …
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End-of-life Care Practices in Two Cultures: A Comparative Ethical Analysis and Recommendations
… the similarities and differences between the end-of-life care strategies employed in the United States and Saudi Arabia. End-of-life care has emerged in recent decades as a medical practice specialty. It has taken on enhanced significance in the United States in tandem with the aging of the …
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Family Communication About End-of-Life Decisions
… For adults with serious illness nearing the end of life there are difficult decisions to be made about medical care and treatment. However, persons with life-threatening illness are commonly incapacitated, leaving the responsibility for making critical end-of-life decisions to family. To …
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Family conversations about end-of-life health decisions
Communicating about end-of-life decisions can be one of the most challenging and consequential experiences individuals and their families can face. A great deal of end-of-life research is predicated on the reasoning that family communication is critical to the delivery of effective advance care, …
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Fracture mechanics analysis of offshore wind turbine monopile structures for lifetime extension
As more early offshore wind farms reach the end of their design life, the wind industryneeds to prepare for end-of-life decision making for offshore wind turbine (OWT). One idea gaining traction is lifetime extension, that is, operating an OWT monopile beyond its original lifetime if it can be …
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FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION
AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF AMY J. PIONTEK, for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Health Education, presented on June 2, 2017 at Southern Illinois University Carbondale TITLE: FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH HEALTH EDUCATION SPECIALISTS’ ATTITUDES TOWARDS PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE EDUCATION MAJOR …
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End-of-life decisions for young children: law, systems and Luhmann
… medical system rationalities that drive child end-of-life decision-making (CELDM) in respect of the very young. Neither conventional rights discourse nor legal doctrine has shown itself capable of resolving or indeed providing a full understanding of the issues involved. This study therefore …
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Good life in the balance: A cross-national study of Dutch and Australian disability perspectives on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
… qualitative study with the purpose of obtaining perspectives held by people with quadriplegia and leading figures in disability movements in the Netherlands and Australia on the issues of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EPAS). A disability voice is not prominent in public …