Design of the Advance Directives Cohort: a study of end-of-life decision-making focusing on Advance Directives
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Design of the Advance Directives Cohort: a study of end-of-life decision-making focusing on Advance Directives
BACKGROUND ADs are documents in which one can state one's preferences concerning end-of-life care, aimed at making someone's wishes known in situations where he/she is not able to do so in another manner. There is still a lot unclear about ADs. We designed a study aimed at investigating the whole process from the formulating of an AD to its actual use at the end of life. METHODS/DESIGN The st...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-10-166