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End of life care
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End of life care: Advance care planning
Subsections:
The benefits (paragraphs 50-51)
What to discuss (paragraphs 52-55)
When patients do not want to know (paragraphs 56-58)
When others want information to be withheld from the patient (paragraph 59)
Formalising a patient's wishes (paragraph 60)
Recording and sharing the advance care plan (paragraphs 61-62)
Resolving disagreements
The benefits
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Principles
Decision-making models
Working with the principles and decision-making models
Role of relatives, partners and others close to the patient
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Making sound clinical judgements
Explaining the clinical issues
Addressing uncertainty
Emotional difficulties in end of life decision making
Resource constraints
Assessing the overall benefit of treatment options
Resolving disagreements
Advance care planning
The benefits
What to discuss
When patients do not want to know
When others want information to be withheld from the patient
Formalising a patient's wishes
Recording and sharing the advance care plan
Acting on advance requests for treatment
Acting on advance refusals of treatment
Recording and communicating decisions
Reviewing decisions
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Organ donation
Care after death
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Neonates, children and young people
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