García-Fernández, Antía Briones-Figueroa, Andrea Calvo-Sanz, Laura Andreu-Suárez, África Boteanu, Alina
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Rheumatology international
This study aimed to determine the flare rate (FR) in a cohort of Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) patients with tapered or abruptly discontinued biologic disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs (bDMARDs) and to identify predictors of flare. This retrospective observational study included 191 bDMARD dose-reduction events in patients with JIA follo...
Visade, Fabien Deschasse, G Devulder, P Di Martino, C Loggia, G Prodhomme, C Beuscart, J B
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European geriatric medicine
There are no guidelines or consensus statements on the terms to be used when discussing withholding of treatment for patients in acute geriatric care units and who have not received palliative care. The objective of the present study was to analyze the terms used in medical records to refer to the withholding of treatment for patients who died in a...
Nicolas-Robin, Armelle Bourdaire-Mignot, Camille Gründler, Tatiana
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Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
Aissaoui, Nadia Amilien, Virginie Antier, Nadiejda Auvet, Adrien Azoulay, Elie Barbar, Saber Davide Bavozet, Florent Berger, Asael Blidi, Sami Boissier, Florence
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Annals of Intensive Care
BackgroundThe death rate in intensive care units (ICUs) can reach 20%. More than half occurs after a decision of care withholding/withdrawal. We aimed at describing and evaluating the experience of ICU physicians and nurses involved in the end-of-life (EOL) procedure. Primary objective was the evaluation of the experience of EOL assessed by the CAE...
Laging, Bridget L Nay, Rhonda Bauer, Michael Laging, Rohan Walker, Katie Kenny, Amanda
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The Gerontologist
Advance care planning is intended to support residents' preferences regarding health decisions, even when they can no longer participate. Little is known about the power discourses influencing how residents, family members, and health care workers engage in advance care planning and how advance care directives are used if a conflict arises. A large...
Lee, Ha Yeon Kim, Hwa Jung Kwon, Jung Hye Baek, Sun Kyung Won, Young-Woong Kim, Yu Jung Baik, Su Jin Ryu, Hyewon
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Cancer research and treatment
The "Act on Hospice and Palliative Care and Decisions on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Patients at the End-of-Life" was enacted on February 3, 2016 and went into effect on February 4, 2018 in Korea. This study reviewed the first year of determination to life-sustaining treatment (LST) through data analysis of the National Agency for Management of L...
Kim, Hwa Jung Kim, Yu Jung Kwon, Jung Hye Won, Young-Woong Lee, Ha Yeon Baek, Sun Kyung Ryu, Hyewon Kim, Do Yeun
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Cancer research and treatment
The main purpose of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Decisions Act recently enacted in Korea is to respect the patient's self-determination. We aimed to investigate the current status and features of patient self-determination after implementation of the law. Between February 2018 and January 2019, 54,635 cancer deaths were identified from the Nationa...
Song, Joo Hye Kang, Eun Ae Park, Soo-Kyung Hong, Sung Noh Kim, You Sun Bang, Ki Bae Kim, Kyeong Ok Lee, Hong Sub Kang, Sang-Bum Shin, Seung Yong
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Gut and Liver
Background/Aims Our study aimed to evaluate the long-term outcomes and risk factors for relapse after anti-tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α cessation in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients because they are not well established. Methods A retrospective multicenter cohort study was conducted involving patients with Crohn’s disease (CD) or ulcerati...
Svensk, Erik Tydén, Jonas Wallden, Jakob
Background: Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is a common treatment for acute respiratory failure in intensive care units (ICU). While there is increasing data on outcomes after NIV treatment, there are large variations in staffing and monitoring where NIV is provided, making results hard to generalize. The aim of this study was to characterize patien...
Wilkinson, Dominic Zayegh, Amir
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Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics
In this paper, we explore three separate questions that are relevant to assessing the prudential value of life in infants with severe life-limiting illness. First, what is the value or disvalue of a short life? Is it in the interests of a child to save her life if she will nevertheless die in infancy or very early childhood? Second, how does profou...
