Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya

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• 作者：Stephen Omondi ; John Weru ; Asim Jamal Shaikh ; Gerald Yonga
• 关键词：Advance directives ; Palliative care ; Terminal illness ; Factors ; Kenya
• 刊名：BMC Palliative Care
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：16
• 期：1
• 全文大小：679KB
• 刊物主题：Pain Medicine; Quality of Life Research; Palliative Medicine;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1472-684X
• 卷排序：16

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BackgroundAn advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates a person’s health care preference while they are competent to make decisions for themselves and is used to guide decisions on life-sustaining treatment in the event that they become incapacitated. AD can take the form of a living will, a limitation of care document, a do-not-resuscitate order, or an appointment of a surrogate by durable power of attorney. The completion rate of AD varies from region to region, and it is influenced by multiple factors. The objectives of this study were to determine the proportion of terminally ill patients with AD and to identify the factors that influence the completion of AD amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya.