PURPOSE In Korea, most terminal cancer patients have still not been included in end-of-life (EOL) discussions. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the proportion of patients participating in EOL discussions after adopting advance directives. MATERIALS AND METHODS Medical records of 106 hospice patients between July 2012 and February 2013 were reviewed retrospectively. The proportion of ...

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Along the way, by way of illustration, I evaluate various players and teams with respect to baseadvance average. The evaluation of teams leads to further statistical comparisons. Here, the results are equally decisive in favor of base-advance average. For example, over the period 2000-2004, baseadvance average for-and-against predicts wins just as well as runs for-and-against. This is because, ...

INTRODUCTION Huxley, Mayr, Osmond, and Hoffer (1964) presented a hypothesis that schizophrenia is a genetic morphism (see Huxley, 1955). This is in general agreement with the proposition that all genetic characteristics which exist in a population at a frequency higher than can be maintained by mutation alone must be a morphism. The frequency of the morphic gene is the result of a balance betwe...

Resolution of long-standing debates about the role and impact of advance directives - living wills and powers of attorney for health care - has been hampered by a dearth of appropriate data, in particular data that compare the process and outcomes of end-of-life decision making on behalf of patients with and without advance directives. Drawing on a large ethnographic study of patients in two in...

the issue of successful project management and control is of vital importance in today’s world. although the time and cost of any project is determined in advance, paying less attention to an appropriate control and revision will result in a small chance of reaching those goals. the earned value management method that shows deviation of projects schedules and costs is of the good method for thi...