BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Advance care planning (ACP) has shown benefit in some, but
not all, studies. It is important to understand the utility of ACP. We conducted a scoping …

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and quality are well documented for
some minority groups. However, compared to other areas of health care, such as disease …

CONFLICT OF INTEREST The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.
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Importance Advance care planning improves the receipt of medical care aligned with
patients' values; however, it remains suboptimal among diverse patient populations. To …

Great differences in end-of-life practices in treating the critically ill around the world warrant
agreement regarding the major ethical principles. This analysis determines the extent of …

Now in its eighth edition, Bioethics: A Nursing Perspective provides practical guidance on
the ethical issues you might come across in nursing practice, with real-world examples that …

Context: The legal tools of health care advance planning have substantially changed since
their emergence in the mid‐1970s. Thirty years of policy development, primarily at the state …

Population ageing poses considerable challenges to the provision of quality end-of-life care.
The population of the United States is increasingly diverse, making it imperative to design …

Little progress has been made over the last 40 years to eliminate the racial/ethnic
differences in incidence, morbidity, avoidable suffering, and mortality from cancer that result …

Importance Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in
Asia. Objective To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life …