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Systematic Implementation of an Advance Directive Program in Nursing Homes

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It is suggested that systematic implementation of a program to increase use of advance directives reduces health care services utilization without affecting satisfaction or mortality.
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Defeating Alzheimer's disease and other dementias: a priority for European science and society

TL;DR: This poster aims to demonstrate the efforts towards in-situ applicability of EMMARM, which aims to provide real-time information about the physical and cognitive properties of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias.
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The effects of advance care planning on end-of-life care: a systematic review.

TL;DR: There is evidence thatvance care planning positively impacts the quality of end-of-life care and complex advance care planning interventions may be more effective in meeting patients’ preferences than written documents alone.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

TL;DR: This update found 11 new studies for this update, resulting in 22 included studies with a total of 1650 participants, and moderate-quality evidence for a lack of effect of 5% imiquimod compared to vehicle (placebo) on shortterm clinical cure and any adverse effect.
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Chronic in-center hemodialysis patients' attitudes, knowledge, and behavior towards advance directives.

TL;DR: Despite some concern, 79% of patients agreed that a dialysis unit policy asking patients whether they had completed an advance directive was a good idea, and 90% of older patients understood living wills.
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Promoting Completion of Health Care Proxies Following Hospitalization A Randomized Controlled Trial in a Community Hospital

TL;DR: Simple educational interventions, like those mandated by the Patient Self-Determination Act, are unlikely to increase patients' completion of durable healthcare proxies and multi-dimensional interventions that target both elderly patients and their personal physicians should be tested.
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Advance directives on hospital admission : a survey of patient attitudes

TL;DR: A survey of 200 outpatients using an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire revealed that 18% had already completed an advance directive, and 50% had secured the only copy in a safety deposit box.
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Advance directives: the views of health care professionals

TL;DR: Advance directives were thought by participants to be helpful in resolving disagreements between patients and their families about treatment options; in making patients more comfortable, both physically and psychologically, during the process of dying; and in opening up communication and trust among patients, their families and health care professionals.
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