Efforts to promote the completion of advance directives implicitly assume that completion
rates of these documents, which help ensure care consistent with people's preferences in …

Background: Advance care planning is the process of discussing and recording patient
preferences concerning goals of care for patients who may lose capacity or communication …

Objective To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly
patients. Design Prospective randomised controlled trial. Setting Single centre study in a …

The traditional objective of advance care planning has been to have patients make
treatment decisions in advance so that clinicians can attempt to provide care consistent with …

Background: Clinical practice relies on surrogates to make or help to make treatment
decisions for incapacitated adults; however, the effect of this practice on surrogates has not …

Background: Advance care planning is seen as an important strategy to improve end-of-life
communication and the quality of life of patients and their relatives. However, the frequency …

ContextQuality end-of-life care is increasingly recognized as an ethical obligation of health
care providers, both clinicians and organizations. However, this concept has not been …

Our personalities and our identities are intimately bound up with the stories that we tell to
organize and to make sense of our lives. To understand the human meaning of illness, we …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

The process of advance care planning in dementia is far from straightforward; as dementia
progresses, the ability to consider future thoughts and actions becomes compromised, thus …