Advance Care Planning and End-of-Life Decision Making in Dialysis: A Randomized Controlled Trial Targeting Patients and Their Surrogates

American Journal of Kidney Diseases

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 813-822

  Song, Mi Kyung ^a   Ward, Sandra E ^b   Fine, Jason P ^c   Hanson, Laura C ^d   Lin, Feng Chang ^c   Hladik, Gerald A ^d   Hamilton, Jill B ^e   Bridgman, Jessica C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advance care planning (ACP); advanced kidney disease; bereavement; death; dyad congruence; emotional distress; end of life decision making; end stage renal disease (ESRD); hemodialysis; life sustaining treatment; medical decision; patient education intervention; patient surrogate dyad; randomized controlled trial (RCT); surrogate decision maker; treatment options

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; BEREAVEMENT; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEPRESSION; DIALYSIS; DISTRESS SYNDROME; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HOME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PILOT STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHARING PATIENT'S ILLNESS REPRESENTATIONS TO INCREASE TRUST; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; TERMINAL CARE; DECISION MAKING; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROCEDURES; PROXY; PSYCHOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADULT; ADVANCE CARE PLANNING; AGED; ANXIETY; BEREAVEMENT; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE PLANNING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PROXY; RENAL DIALYSIS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84945476881     PISSN: 02726386     EISSN: 15236838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.ajkd.2015.05.018     Document Type: Article

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