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Approaches and reflexions on advance healthcare directives in Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(1):256-264
01-01-2019
Abstract
Approaches and reflexions on advance healthcare directives in Brazil
Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem. 2019;72(1):256-264
01-01-2019DOI 10.1590/0034-7167-2018-0347
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Objective:
to explain the approaches and discussions about the Advance Healthcare Directives spread among health professionals, lawyers and society.
Method:
bibliographic search in the databases SciELO, LILACS, BDENF, in Portuguese, carried out from December 2017 to January 2018.
Results:
22 articles were considered for analysis with interviews and testimonies of physicians, intensivists and geriatricians, nurses, technicians and Nursing auxiliaries, Medical students, lawyers and Law students.
Conclusion:
there is a small number of papers on the Advance Healthcare Directives in Brazil, and a wide range of approaches that have not yet been clarified. The theme is not widely spread and little clarified in its essence.