Advance Directives: Advancement for Palliative Care in Brazil

Nunes, Maria Inês; Trovo, Monica Martins

doi:10.15406/hpmij.2018.02.00055

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“…It is also possible that healthcare professionals are not familiar with the topic and have scarce knowledge on the legal dimension of this topic (Duke and Thompson, 2007;Peicius et al, 2017;Gimeno et al, 2018); in fact, a small proportion of the participants (8.6%) did not know what ADs are. Despite more than 50 years of existence of ADs, discussions in Brazil on the subject are still recent (Nunes and Trovo, 2018), which may explain the low rate of this document among health professionals. Only from 2012, with Resolution number 1995 of the Federal Council of Medicine on ADs, this topic started to be more discussed among Brazilian health professionals (Nunes and Trovo, 2018).…”

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“…Despite more than 50 years of existence of ADs, discussions in Brazil on the subject are still recent (Nunes and Trovo, 2018), which may explain the low rate of this document among health professionals. Only from 2012, with Resolution number 1995 of the Federal Council of Medicine on ADs, this topic started to be more discussed among Brazilian health professionals (Nunes and Trovo, 2018). Thus, the adoption of strategies to expand the dissemination of ADs can be important for the propagation of the topic among health professionals and society in general.…”

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Professional characteristics and the prevalence of advance directives among palliative care professionals: A cross-sectional study

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Objective This study aimed to investigate the association between professional characteristics and the prevalence of advance directives among palliative care professionals. Methods This is a descriptive cross-sectional study. A diverse sample of 327 healthcare professionals completed an online survey investigating demographic variables, length of time working in palliative care, post-graduate qualifications in palliative care, and development of their own advance directives. Results The prevalence of advance directives among professionals working in palliative care was associated with factors such as higher academic qualifications, holding a post-graduate qualification in palliative care, and working in palliative care for a longer time. Furthermore, psychologists were most likely to have registered their own advance directives, compared with other healthcare professionals. Significance of results Post-graduate palliative care education and professional experience in this area appear to be important factors associated with palliative care professionals writing of their own advance directives. However, our study suggests that just being involved in or familiar with the context of palliative and end-of-life care does not guarantee that health professionals register their advance directives.

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Professional characteristics and the prevalence of advance directives among palliative care professionals: A cross-sectional study

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“…Some symptoms remain unchanged and organic imbalance grows to the point that recognizing the irreversibility of the disease is inevitable. [3][4][5] Palliative care is not expected to come in only at the last minute or at imminent death. Scholars of the subject know that it must be implemented whenever incurable disease occurs.…”

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The mantle of legal protection

Vilardo¹

2018

HPMIJ

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PerspectiveIt is more common for Law to be used to settle existing conflicts than for the prevention of rights violations. When it comes to palliative care this course of action must be different. Everyone involved should prevent predictable situations, which will avoid a series of future problems such as disrespect for autonomy. This is the proposed dialogue between Biolaw and Health. 1,2 AbstractThere is an important participation of biolaw in the interdisciplinary teamwork of palliative care. The aim is to protect autonomy, when individuals cannot do it by themselves. What matters is the manifestation of refusal to accept procedures that do not offer a cure, and aim only at postponing the death that will result from the disease rather than from the lack of any specific procedure.

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Advance Directives: Advancement for Palliative Care in Brazil

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Professional characteristics and the prevalence of advance directives among palliative care professionals: A cross-sectional study

Professional characteristics and the prevalence of advance directives among palliative care professionals: A cross-sectional study

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