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Decision-making capacity and communication about care of older people during their last three months of life

BACKGROUND: Limited decision-making capacity (DMC) of older people affects their abilities to communicate about their preferences regarding end-of-life care. In an advance directive (AD) people can write down preferences for (non)treatment or appoint a proxy as a representative in (non)treatment cho...

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Autores principales: Kaspers, Pam J, Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje D, Deeg, Dorly JH, Pasman, H Roeline W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3563577/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23305093
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-684X-12-1