- ►annals.org [PDF] TE Quill, IR Byock… - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2000 - Am Coll Physicians When provided by a skilled, multidisciplinary team, pallia- tive care is highly effective at addressing
the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of dying patients and their families.
However, some patients who have wit- nessed harsh death want reassurance that they ... Cited by 168 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
TE Quill - JaMa, 2000 - Am Med Assoc Discussions about end-of-life issues are difficult for clinicians to initiate. Patients, their
families, and clinicians frequently collude to avoid mentioning death or dying, even when the
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MJ Field, RE Behrman - 2002 - books.google.com THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES PRESS • 500 Fifth Street, NW • Washington, DC 20001
NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of
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- ►urmc.edu [PDF] MW Rabow, JM Hauser, J Adams - Jama, 2004 - Am Med Assoc Even for patients receiving complex, intensive medical care for serious and life-threatening
illness, family caregiving is typically at the core of what sustains patients at the end of life. The
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DJ Brauner, JC Muir, GA Sachs - Jama, 2000 - Am Med Assoc Physicians increasingly are called on to provide primary care for the growing population of people
with Alzheimer-type dementia. However, little attention has been paid to the care of nondementia
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LM Cohen, MJ Germain, DM Poppel - JAMA, 2003 - Am Med Assoc Cessation of life-support treatment is an appropriate option for situations in which the burdens
of therapy substantially outweigh the benefits. Decisions to withdraw dialysis now precede 1
in 4 deaths of patients who have end-stage renal disease. Guidelines have been recently ... Cited by 56 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►annals.org [PDF] L Snyder, C Leffler… - Annals of internal medicine, 2005 - Am Coll Physicians Medicine, law, and social values are not static. Reexamining the ethical tenets of medical practice
and their application in new circumstances is a necessary exercise. The fifth edition of the College's
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- ►nih.gov S Matsumura, S Bito, H Liu, K Kahn, S Fukuhara, M … - Journal of general …, 2002 - Springer OBJECTIVE: Cross-cultural ethical conflicts are common. However, little is known about how
and to what extent acculturation changes attitudes toward end-of-life care and advance care
planning. We compared attitudes toward end- of-life care among Japanese Americans ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - All 14 versions
JL Werth, JR Gordon, RR Johnson - Aging & Mental Health, 2002 - meagherlab.tamu.edu End-of-life care has been receiving a signifi cant and growing amount of attention from a variety
of sources (eg, Field & Cassel, 1997); however, much of the emphasis has been on the medical
aspects of caring for the terminally ill, with signifi cantly less attention on the relevant ... Cited by 34 - Related articles - View as HTML - BL Direct - All 10 versions