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Associations between understanding of current treatment intent, communication with healthcare providers, preferences for invasive life-sustaining interventions and decisional conflict: results from a survey of patients with advanced heart failure in Singapore

OBJECTIVES: To make informed choices about use of future invasive life-sustaining interventions (ILSI), patients with congestive heart failure (CHF) need to correctly understand the intent of their current treatments. However, healthcare providers may be wary of having these discussions due to fear...

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Autores principales: Malhotra, Chetna, Sim, David, Jaufeerally, Fazlur, Finkelstein, Eric A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30232107
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021688