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  1. Article: An appraisal of ethical issues in end-of-life care.

    Ilemona, Ekore Rabi

    Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria

    2014  Volume 23, Issue 4, Page(s) 358–364

    Abstract: Caring for patients at the end-of-life period could involve a number of situations and incidents that pose moral dilemma for both the health workers and the patients' family members or loved ones. Some of these issues include shared decision-making, the ... ...

    Abstract Caring for patients at the end-of-life period could involve a number of situations and incidents that pose moral dilemma for both the health workers and the patients' family members or loved ones. Some of these issues include shared decision-making, the right to refuse medical treatment, medical futility, and euthanasia versus assisted suicide, information disclosure (truth-telling), substitute decision-making, and confidentiality. They may seem improbable or remote, until one is confronted with them real-time. Providing good care for dying patients requires that physicians and other members of the health care team be knowledgeable of ethical issues pertinent to end-of-life care.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-10
    Publishing country Nigeria
    Document type Journal Article
    ISSN 1115-2613
    ISSN 1115-2613
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  2. Article: An appraisal of ethical issues in end-of-life care.

    Ilemona, Ekore Rabi

    Nigerian journal of medicine : journal of the National Association of Resident Doctors of Nigeria

    2014  Volume 23, Issue 4, Page(s) 358–364

    Abstract: Caring for patients at the end-of-life period could involve a number of situations and incidents that pose moral dilemma for both the health workers and the patients' family members or loved ones. Some of these issues include shared decision-making, the ... ...

    Abstract Caring for patients at the end-of-life period could involve a number of situations and incidents that pose moral dilemma for both the health workers and the patients' family members or loved ones. Some of these issues include shared decision-making, the right to refuse medical treatment, medical futility, and euthanasia versus assisted suicide, information disclosure (truth-telling), substitute decision-making, and confidentiality. They may seem improbable or remote, until one is confronted with them real-time. Providing good care for dying patients requires that physicians and other members of the health care team be knowledgeable of ethical issues pertinent to end-of-life care.
    MeSH term(s) Decision Making ; Ethics, Medical ; Humans ; Palliative Care/ethics ; Personal Autonomy ; Physician-Patient Relations/ethics ; Right to Die ; Terminal Care/ethics ; Treatment Refusal/ethics ; Withholding Treatment/ethics
    Language English
    Publishing date 2014-10
    Publishing country Nigeria
    Document type Journal Article ; Review
    ISSN 1115-2613
    ISSN 1115-2613
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  3. Article: African Cultural Concept of Death and the Idea of Advance Care Directives.

    Ekore, Rabi Ilemona / Lanre-Abass, Bolatito

    Indian journal of palliative care

    2016  Volume 22, Issue 4, Page(s) 369–372

    Abstract: An advance care directive is a person's oral or written instructions about his or her future medical care, if he or she becomes unable to communicate. It may be in written or oral form. Africans ordinarily do not encourage the contemplation of death or ... ...

    Abstract An advance care directive is a person's oral or written instructions about his or her future medical care, if he or she becomes unable to communicate. It may be in written or oral form. Africans ordinarily do not encourage the contemplation of death or any discussion about their own or their loved ones' death. According to the African belief system, life does not end with death, but continues in another realm. Becoming an ancestor after death is a desirable goal of every individual, a feat which cannot be achieved if an individual asks for an unnatural death by attempting to utilize advance care directives. Advance care directives are considered to be too individualistic for communitarian societies such as Africa. Coupled with the communitarian nature of African societies are issues such as lack of awareness of advance directives, fear of death and grief, and the African cultural belief system, which are potential barriers to the utilization of advance care directives in the African setting. Hence, the need for culture sensitivity which makes it imperative that patient's family and loved ones are carried along as far as possible, without compromising the autonomy of the patient in question when utilizing advance care directives.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2016-11-01
    Publishing country India
    Document type Review ; Journal Article
    ISSN 0973-1075
    ISSN 0973-1075
    DOI 10.4103/0973-1075.191741
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