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Abstract Significance/Background: Surrogate decision-makers (SDMs) take part in 1.5
million end-of-life (EOL) decisions per year. Most find the role burdensome, often do not …

Contesto:  le possibilità offerte dalla tecnologia ampliano l’ ambito delle decisioni di
fine vita e introducono i concetti di accanimento terapeutico ed eutanasia in un momento …

Purpose. The aim of this study was to explore end-of-life care planning and decision making
experiences of health care providers in the hospital in order to address the lack of theoretical …

This work is also dedicated to my three children, Jeremy, Rebecca, and Philip, and their
chosen life partners, K-risten, Kevin and Aimee. We have had the excitement of sharing …

The purpose of this study was to describe the care preferences of individuals living with
advanced cardiac and respiratory illnesses about their current and future health …

Purpose: To improve understanding of nursing home physicians' perspectives regarding
end-of-life care, and to suggest directions for further research. Methods: An exploratory …

It has been said that it takes a village to raise a child. Apparently, it also takes a village to
raise a doctoral student from early coursework, through candidacy, to completion of the …

Philosophers and followers of various faiths have long debated the meaning of life and
death. Death's one constant is that it is everyone's last act. What is variable is how one views …

Abstract'Objective.'To conduct a pilot study describing the decision making needs of family
caregivers of terminally ill patients when making or supporting decisions regarding place of …