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Quality of Dying in Nursing Home Residents Dying with Dementia: Does Advanced Care Planning Matter? A Nationwide Postmortem Study

BACKGROUND: Advance care planning is considered a central component of good quality palliative care and especially relevant for people who lose the capacity to make decisions at the end of life, which is the case for many nursing home residents with dementia. We set out to investigate to what extent...

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Autores principales: Vandervoort, An, Houttekier, Dirk, Vander Stichele, Robert, van der Steen, Jenny T., Van den Block, Lieve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3948949/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24614884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0091130