Life-sustaining treatment preferences in older patients when referred to the emergency department for acute geriatric assessment: a descriptive study in a Dutch hospital

BACKGROUND: In many cases, life-sustaining treatment preferences are not timely discussed with older patients. Advance care planning (ACP) offers medical professionals an opportunity to discuss patients’ preferences. We assessed how often these preferences were known when older patients were referre...

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Autores principales: Ermers, Daisy J. M., van Beuningen-van Wijk, Marit P. H., Rit, Evi Peters, Stalpers-Konijnenburg, Sonja C., Taekema, Diana G., Bosch, Frank H., Engels, Yvonne, van Mierlo, Patricia J. W. B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-02002-y

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7807792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33446116
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-02002-y

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