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Advance care planning: challenges at the emergency department of a cancer care center

INTRODUCTION: Code status discussions form an important part of advance care planning (ACP) as it enables physicians to respect the patient’s wishes for end-of-life care. However, in some cases, code status discussions can be challenging causing the physician to go against the patient’s wishes and t...

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Autores principales: Cruz-Carreras, Maria T., Chaftari, Patrick, Viets-Upchurch, Jayne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5752753/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28918550
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00520-017-3870-x