Abstract The 2011 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure (HF) Guidelines Focused
Update reviews the recently published clinical trials that will potentially impact on …

Purpose. Our objective was to perform a systematic review of pre-arrest predictors of the
outcome of in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) in adults. Methods. We …

OBJECTIVE: Advance Care Planning (ACP)–the communication process by which patients
establish goals and preferences for future care–is encouraged to improve the quality of end …

Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that normally requires health care to be provided by both
specialists and nonspecialists. This is advantageous because patients benefit from …

Background Despite the documented and well known patient benefits of ACP, the
completion of ACP, only a minority of patients, during the advanced or EOL stage of their …

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of clinician perception of inappropriate
cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) regarding the last out‐of‐hospital cardiac arrest …

Purpose The authors performed a structured literature review to understand residents'
experiences with end-of-life (EOL) decision making with adult hospitalized patients …

Background Persons aged 65 and over are the fastest growing segment of the population in
most Western countries. Although cancer-related death occurs far more commonly in older …

Objectives To compare changes in preferences for life‐sustaining treatments (LST s) and
subsequent mortality of younger and older inpatients. Design Retrospective cohort study …

Background: As evidence exist that severe neurological damage or prolonged death after
inappropriate CPR could occur, restraints and indications for CPR were perceived as …