منابع مشابه
legal aspects of end of life and end stage disease
Abstract: Aims: End of Life (EOL) care providers potentially face by variety of legal and professional dilemma. This study is designed to review and analyze these challenges and approaches to solve them. Materials & Methods: In this narrative review study, legal aspects of end-of-life care in subjects such as medical assisted dying, decision-making capacity and withdrawal of life-sustaining...
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متن کاملEngland's approach to improving end-of-life care: a strategy for honoring patients' choices.
In the U.S. health care system, and in those of many other countries, the care of dying patients is generally not performed well, with pain and other distress frequently undertreated and patients' preferences not respected. England's evidence-based End of Life Care Strategy could prove instructive. This issue brief discusses the origins, content, and implementation of the Strategy, as well as i...
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ning can be intimidating. Fraught with concern over their mortality and often confused by complex legal forms and checklists of unfamiliar medical procedures, many people feel overwhelmed by the process or are unable to envision the consequences of the tough decisions it entails. An increasing number of tools, however, are helping patients break down the more challenging aspects of the process,...
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This article presents a recent disconcerting event that took place at a rehabilitative nursing home in Tel Aviv in light of Israel's Dying Patient Law, which came into effect in 2005. It probes the double effect doctrine as it is relevant to the case at hand and the role of the medical profession and of the family in making decisions at the end of life, and it argues that patients who express a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1539-3399
DOI: 10.14574/ojrnhc.v10i2.32