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Advance care planning for fatal chronic illness: avoiding commonplace errors and unwarranted suffering.

Lynn J, Goldstein NE.

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A prospective study of the efficacy of the physician order form for life-sustaining treatment.

Tolle SW, Tilden VP, Nelson CA, Dunn PM.

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Advance end-of-life treatment planning. A research review.

Miles SH, Koepp R, Weber EP.

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The effect of a social work intervention to enhance advance care planning documentation in the nursing home.

Morrison RS, Chichin E, Carter J, Burack O, Lantz M, Meier DE.

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Moss AH, Oppenheimer EA, Casey P, Cazzolli PA, Roos RP, Stocking CB, Siegler M.

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Optimal use of orders not to intervene and advance directives.

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An approach to advance care planning in the office.

Gallagher R.

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An electronic medical record intervention increased nursing home advance directive orders and documentation.

Lindner SA, Davoren JB, Vollmer A, Williams B, Landefeld CS.

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End-of-life care for COPD patients.

Dean MM.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the last year of life.

Hansen-Flaschen J.

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[Decision-making factors regarding resuscitate and hospitalize orders by families of elderly persons on admission to a Japanese long-term care hospital]

Hirakawa Y, Masuda Y, Kuzuya M, Iguchi A, Uemura K.

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If asked, hospitalized patients will choose whether to receive life-sustaining therapies.

Nicolasora N, Pannala R, Mountantonakis S, Shanmugam B, DeGirolamo A, Amoateng-Adjepong Y, Manthous CA.

J Hosp Med. 2006 May;1(3):161-7.PMID: 17219490 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]Related articles

Reforming care for persons near the end of life: the promise of quality improvement.

Lynn J, Nolan K, Kabcenell A, Weissman D, Milne C, Berwick DM; End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel.

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Withdrawal of mechanical ventilation in anticipation of death in the intensive care unit.

Cook D, Rocker G, Marshall J, Sjokvist P, Dodek P, Griffith L, Freitag A, Varon J, Bradley C, Levy M, Finfer S, Hamielec C, McMullin J, Weaver B, Walter S, Guyatt G; Level of Care Study Investigators and the Canadian Critical Care Trials Group.

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Cardiopulmonary resuscitation and do-not-resuscitate orders in the nursing home.

Zweig SC.

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Palliative care provision for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Yohannes AM.

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Use of the quality improvement process in assessing end-of-life care in the nursing home.

Vandenberg EV, Tvrdik A, Keller BK.

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Integrating POLST into palliative care guidelines: a paradigm shift in advance care planning in oncology.

Bomba PA, Vermilyea D.

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Calvin AO.

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A randomized, controlled trial to improve advance care planning among patients undergoing cardiac surgery.

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