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Psychosocial care
Advance care planing for patients with metastatic brain tumours: benefits and barriers

Lorraine Martelli-Reid, MN, RN(EC), Nurse Practitioner – Adult Lung Disease Site Group, Juravinski Cancer Centre, Hamilton, ON.

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TRIAL SUMMARY: Enhanced communication through advance care planning relieves stress and ensures patients’ participation in decision making

 

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In Brief

Already known

  • Advance care planning (ACP) avoids prolonging ineffective treatments and helps to prepare patients and their families for the end of life and death.

What this study showed

  • Patients and families welcomed the process and felt it improved informed decision making.

Next steps

  • Further experience will evaluate the impact of ACP on planned outcomes.
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