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The best approach, for both doctors and patients, may be to discuss preferences about communicating before difficult medical issues arise.
Unless staff of EDs have the time and resources to discuss preferences for referral out of their department in cases of inappropriate attendances, the community would need to look at punitive measures to discourage such inappropriate use.
In the second session, the nurse encouraged each dyad to discuss preferences in different medical scenarios.
In case no AD exists, the probable will of the patient must be explored by gathering information: Did patients discuss preferences with relatives, friends or a proxy?
Not all patients wanted to discuss preferences (for place of care and/or death) with their family and/or HCPs or within an interview setting, an ambivalence that is also identified in other studies [ 4, 10, 28, 29].
Guidance on ACP for HCPs [ 27] acknowledges that there is no 'right time' to introduce the topic, although it is also suggested that it is important to open up communication to discuss preferences at the earliest opportunity.
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It is a mistaken belief that discussing preferences for the end of life is so difficult.
In a U.S. multisite study of patients with advanced cancer and their informal caregivers, rates of major depressive disorder were not higher among patients who had discussed preferences for care at the end of life with their physicians, but were higher among bereaved caregivers of patients who had not had such discussions [77].
To understand why women don't initiate, adhere, or persist with osteoporosis medications, investigators have surveyed and discussed preferences with patients [7], [8], [9].
Semi-structured telephone interviews were carried out to explore attitudes to discussing preferences.
Dickerson stresses the importance of discussing preferences for pain relief before labour begins [ 13].
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