- ►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
patient's suffering is severe and prognosis is poor. In addition to determining from ... Cited by 149 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
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
illnesses in this group of patients. To illustrate how presence of dementia can alter the ... Cited by 66 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
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
