Doctors, patients urged to discuss advanced care plans

Doctors, patients urged to discuss advanced care plans.

Better home care and better pay for doctors urged at CMA town hall.

Even on a cold winter night, it seems Canadians can’t resist the promise of an earnest evening of debate over medicare reform: With 500 people in the room and another 150 turned away Tuesday in Toronto, Ontario, at the Canadian Medical Association’s second town hall meeting on health care transformation, it’s evident that a passion for public health persists in Canada’s biggest city. In a two-h...

Patient speaking: hospice patients discuss their care.

Much research examines the effects of hospice assistance on the primary caregivers of hospice patients, but very little systematic research has investigated the perceptions of hospice patients themselves of the care they receive. This researcher asked 38 hospice patients whether and how hospice provided comfort, allowing the patients to guide discussion of services. Patients reported that hospi...

Older Adults More Likely to Discuss Advance Care Plans With an Attorney Than With a Physician

Adults are encouraged to discuss their end-of-life health care preferences so that their wishes will be known and hopefully honored. The purpose of this study was to determine with whom older adults had communicated their future health care wishes and the extent to which respondents themselves were serving as a surrogate decision maker. Results from the cross-sectional online survey with 294 pe...

National home care standards urged.

176 CMAJ, February 8, 2011, 183(2) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors orient themselves with a lot of resources and a lot of sophistication. What do you do with a solo GP? Or even a multi-group practice?” Infection prevention and control in Canada has been focused on acute care facilities as a consequence of rising rates of health care–associated infections, which are now esti...