Outpatient Palliative Care Services to Latino Patients: A Closer Look into Advance Directives (S785)

An abstract of the study conducted by Milagros Silva and Giovanny Baca which aims to identify the number of patients that have completed an Advance Directive prior and after seeing a PC provider and evaluate the type of end of life care provided to Latino patients. Silva and Baca concluded a worriso...

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Published inJournal of pain and symptom management Vol. 53; no. 2; p. 457
Main Authors Silva, Milagros, MD, Baca, Giovanny, MD
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Madison Elsevier Inc 01.02.2017
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Advance directives
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
End of life decisions
Hispanic Americans
Minority & ethnic groups
Pain Medicine
Palliative care
Patients
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Summary:An abstract of the study conducted by Milagros Silva and Giovanny Baca which aims to identify the number of patients that have completed an Advance Directive prior and after seeing a PC provider and evaluate the type of end of life care provided to Latino patients. Silva and Baca concluded a worrisome minority of Latino patients had completed AD prior to a PC consultation and they added that having EOL conversations were important PC interventions for Latino patients potentially resulting in less aggressive care at EOL.
ISSN:0885-3924
1873-6513
DOI:10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2016.12.296