Improving Iowa Research Network Patient Recruitment for an Advance Care Planning Study
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Advance care planning and the older patient.
Making treatment decisions for older people is difficult, because of the complex interplay of their multiple co-morbidities, but also because of the fine balance of risks vs. benefit in any chosen management plan. This becomes even more difficult when they lose the capacity to tell us what they want, and often in such situations we have to rely on information from others in order to make decisi...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2150-1327,2150-1327
DOI: 10.1177/21501327211009699