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The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives
Advance directives allow people to declare their treatment preferences for a potential future state of incompetency. Covid-19, with its high numbers of quickly deteriorating patients requiring intensive care, has acutely demonstrated how helpful it would be for clinicians to have reliable, readily a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34723244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.753747 |
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author | Biller-Andorno, Nikola Biller, Armin |
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description | Advance directives allow people to declare their treatment preferences for a potential future state of incompetency. Covid-19, with its high numbers of quickly deteriorating patients requiring intensive care, has acutely demonstrated how helpful it would be for clinicians to have reliable, readily available, up-to-date information at hand to be able to act in accordance with what the individual patient would have wanted. Yet for the past few decades advance directives have fallen short of their potential, for various reasons. At worst, advance directives are perceived as unwieldy legal documents that put excessive demands on patients without providing useful guidance for better care. Recent efforts such as advance care planning have tried to remedy some of these shortcomings but have so far met with limited success. We suggest a new concept—the Advance Care Compass—that harnesses the potential of digitalization in healthcare to overcome many of difficulties encountered so far. |
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spelling | pubmed-85540482021-10-30 The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives Biller-Andorno, Nikola Biller, Armin Front Digit Health Digital Health Advance directives allow people to declare their treatment preferences for a potential future state of incompetency. Covid-19, with its high numbers of quickly deteriorating patients requiring intensive care, has acutely demonstrated how helpful it would be for clinicians to have reliable, readily available, up-to-date information at hand to be able to act in accordance with what the individual patient would have wanted. Yet for the past few decades advance directives have fallen short of their potential, for various reasons. At worst, advance directives are perceived as unwieldy legal documents that put excessive demands on patients without providing useful guidance for better care. Recent efforts such as advance care planning have tried to remedy some of these shortcomings but have so far met with limited success. We suggest a new concept—the Advance Care Compass—that harnesses the potential of digitalization in healthcare to overcome many of difficulties encountered so far. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8554048/ /pubmed/34723244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.753747 Text en Copyright © 2021 Biller-Andorno and Biller. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Digital Health Biller-Andorno, Nikola Biller, Armin The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title | The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title_full | The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title_fullStr | The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title_full_unstemmed | The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title_short | The Advance Care Compass– A New Mechanics for Digitally Transforming Advance Directives |
title_sort | advance care compass– a new mechanics for digitally transforming advance directives |
topic | Digital Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8554048/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34723244 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fdgth.2021.753747 |
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