HL Mencken - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2004 - Am Coll Physicians F or the past 2 decades, people have debated the role of advance directives in decision making
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JM TEND - Managing death in the ICU: the transition from cure to …, 2001 - books.google.com Chapter 8 Advance Care Planning in the Outpatient and ICU Setting JOAN M. TEND A
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CA Manthous - American Journal of Medical Quality, 2009 - ajm.sagepub.com Although dementia is used for this case example, patients could certainly create directives for
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DONS DIZON, ME SCHUTZER - Journal of Psychosocial Oncology, 2009 - informaworld.com Our prior research found that 43% of women with cancer relied on more than one person for
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