KN Yadav, NB Gabler, E Cooney, S Kent, J Kim… - Health …, 2017 - healthaffairs.org
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 …
An understanding of patients' care goals in the context of a serious illness is an essential element of high-quality care, allowing clinicians to align the care provided with what is most …
MA Spruit, SJ Singh, C Garvey… - American journal of …, 2013 - atsjournals.org
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is recognized as a core component of the management of individuals with chronic respiratory disease. Since the 2006 American …
A Brinkman-Stoppelenburg, JAC Rietjens… - Palliative …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
CHM Houben, MA Spruit, MTJ Groenen… - Journal of the American …, 2014 - Elsevier
Objective To systematically review the efficacy of advance care planning (ACP) interventions in different adult patient populations. Design Systematic review and meta-analyses. Data …
Background Recent discussions about health care reform have raised questions regarding the value of advance directives. Methods We used data from survey proxies in the Health …
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 …
R Kastenbaum, C Moreman - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our …
Although end-of-life medical spending is often viewed as a major component of aggregate medical expenditure, accurate measures of this type of medical spending are scarce. We …