Advance Care Planning
There is increasing attention in Australia and internationally on advance care planning (ACP), a process...
The Australian Medical Association has recently adopted a policy position concerning advance care planning, which...
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Advance care planning allows competent patients to record their wishes for treatment they would or...
AIM: Legislation relating to advance health care planning was introduced into Queensland in 1998. All...
Ageing general
This study aims to determine the perspectives of older community members and service providers in...
Purpose of the paper: To review the literature on leadership development in the for-proft sector...
STUDY OBJECTIVE---In the causative mechanism of falls among older community dwellers, slips and trips have...
Falls among older people are an important health issue because of their frequency and associated...
End-of-life issues
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Objective: To compare attitudes and practices of Australian medical practitioners, by specialty, to a range...
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Aim: To examine how physicians’ life stances affect their attitudes to end-of-life decisions and their...
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Background: In this study we investigated (a) to what extent physicians have experience with performing...
This study investigated issues raised in qualitative data from our previous studies of health professionals...
End-of-life decision making in Europe and Australia: a physician survey (with Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Susanne Fischer, L Deliens, Guido Miccinesi, Michael Norup, Tore Nilstun, Agnes van der Heide, and Gerrit van der Wal), Archives of Internal Medicine (2006)
Background: The frequencies with which physicians make different medical end-of-life decisions (ELDs) may differ between...
BACKGROUND Aging populations with greater rates of cognitive decline demand increased attention to the issues...
Life-extending changes in medical technology and an ageing population pose practical and ethical problems relating...
Ethics
Purpose: To present and discuss the reactions of research ethics committees (RECs) in a number...
Mental health
Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of a population-based strategy designed to raise awareness in the...
Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess the awareness of, and attitudes to,...
Palliative care
The author discusses the need for well structured policies and guidelines for the decision to...
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The H-reflex has been extensively used to exam the spinal motoneuron excitability. However, no report...