Approaches and reflexions on advance healthcare directives in Brazil - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

ABSTRACT

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.