Search Results - "Hammes, J"

Effect of a Disease-Specific Advance Care Planning Intervention on End-of-Life Care by Kirchhoff, Karin T., Hammes, Bernard J., Kehl, Karen A., Briggs, Linda A., Brown, Roger L.

“…Objectives To compare patient preferences for end‐of‐life care with care received at the end of life. Design A randomized controlled trial was conducted with…”
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The use of the e-SUS Território mobile application in the work of community health workers in Brazil by Celuppi, IC, Prado, RLC, Mohr, ETB, Mioto, F, Oliveira, JMD, Felisberto, M, Hammes, JF, Wazlawick, RS, Dalmarco, EM

“…Objective: Community health workers work directly in the communities and are the intermediaries between the population’s needs and the primary health care…”
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Combined Early and Late [68Ga]PSMA-HBED-CC PET Scans Improve Lesion Detectability in Biochemical Recurrence of Prostate Cancer with Low PSA Levels by Hohberg, M., Kobe, C., Täger, P., Hammes, J., Schmidt, M., Dietlein, F., Wild, M., Heidenreich, A., Drzezga, A., Dietlein, M.

“…Purpose Our aim was to evaluate the benefit of early (1 h post-injection (p.i.)) and late (3 h p.i.) [ 68 Ga]PSMA-HBED-CC positron emission tomography…”
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GNA11 and N-RAS mutations: alternatives for MAPK pathway activating GNAQ mutations in primary melanocytic tumours of the central nervous system by Gessi, M., Hammes, J., Lauriola, L., Dörner, E., Kirfel, J., Kristiansen, G., zur Muehlen, A., Denkhaus, D., Waha, A., Pietsch, T.

“…M. Gessi, J. Hammes, L. Lauriola, E. Dörner, J. Kirfel, G. Kristiansen, A. zur Muehlen, D. Denkhaus, A. Waha and T. Pietsch (2013) Neuropathology and Applied…”
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Use of the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program in the Clinical Setting: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Hickman, Susan E., Keevern, Elisabeth, Hammes, Bernard J.

“…The Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form is a palliative care tool that contains standardized, actionable medical orders. It is designed…”
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Effect of Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Documents on Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial-Resistant Organism Infections in Nursing Home Residents by Dolan, Emily C., Ovian, Deepa R., Hammes, Bernard J., Kowalski, Todd J.

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A Comparative, Retrospective, Observational Study of the Prevalence, Availability, and Specificity of Advance Care Plans in a County that Implemented an Advance Care Planning Microsystem by Hammes, Bernard J., Rooney, Brenda L., Gundrum, Jacob D.

“…OBJECTIVES: To determine whether outcomes have changed over time for a managed, systematic approach to advance care planning (ACP). DESIGN: Retrospective…”
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A complex regional intervention to implement advance care planning in one town's nursing homes: Protocol of a controlled inter-regional study by In der Schmitten, Jürgen, Rothärmel, Sonja, Mellert, Christine, Rixen, Stephan, Hammes, Bernard J, Briggs, Linda, Wegscheider, Karl, Marckmann, Georg

“…Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an emerging strategy to ensure that well-reflected, meaningful and clearly documented treatment preferences are available and…”
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Hope for the Future: Achieving the Original Intent of Advance Directives by HICKMAN, SUSAN E., HAMMES, BERNARD J., MOSS, ALVIN H., TOLLE, SUSAN W.

“…Despite the hope that traditional advance directives would ensure that patient preferences are honored, numerous studies have found that only a minority of…”
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Communication, trust, and making choices: advance care planning four years on by Romer, Anna L, Hammes, Bernard J

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The Consistency Between Treatments Provided to Nursing Facility Residents and Orders on the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form by Hickman, Susan E., Nelson, Christine A., Moss, Alvin H., Tolle, Susan W., Perrin, Nancy A., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Objectives To evaluate the consistency between treatments provided and Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST) orders. Design Retrospective…”
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A Comparison of Methods to Communicate Treatment Preferences in Nursing Facilities: Traditional Practices Versus the Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Program by Hickman, Susan E., Nelson, Christine A., Perrin, Nancy A., Moss, Alvin H., Hammes, Bernard J., Tolle, Susan W.

“…OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the relationship between two methods to communicate treatment preferences (Physician Orders for Life‐Sustaining Treatment (POLST)…”
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Advance Care Planning in Frail Older Adults: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial by Overbeek, Anouk, Korfage, Ida J., Jabbarian, Lea J., Billekens, Pascalle, Hammes, Bernard J., Polinder, Suzanne, Severijnen, Johan, Swart, Siebe J., Witkamp, Frederika E., van der Heide, Agnes, Rietjens, Judith A.C.

“…Objectives To determine the effectiveness of advance care planning (ACP) in frail older adults. Design Cluster randomized controlled trial. Setting Residential…”
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Reasons for discordance and concordance between POLST orders and current treatment preferences by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L., Sudore, Rebecca L., Hammes, Bernard J., Sachs, Greg A.

“…Background The reasons for discordance between advance care planning (ACP) documentation and current preferences are not well understood. The POLST form offers…”
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POLST recall, concordance, and decision quality outcomes among nursing home residents and surrogate decision-makers by Hickman, Susan E, Sudore, Rebecca L, Torke, Alexia M, Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L, Hammes, Bernard J

“…POLST orders are actionable in an emergency, so it is important that the decisions be of high quality and concordant with current preferences. The goal of this…”
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Factors associated with concordance between POLST orders and current treatment preferences by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Heim Smith, Nicholette, Myers, Anne L., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Background POLST is widely used to document the treatment preferences of nursing facility residents as orders, but it is unknown how well previously completed…”
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Do Life-sustaining Treatment Orders Match Patient and Surrogate Preferences? The Role of POLST by Hickman, Susan E., Torke, Alexia M., Sachs, Greg A., Sudore, Rebecca L., Tang, Qing, Bakoyannis, Giorgos, Smith, Nicholette Heim, Myers, Anne L., Hammes, Bernard J.

“…Background It is essential to high-quality medical care that life-sustaining treatment orders match the current, values-based preferences of patients or their…”
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Radiation exposure in the environment of patients after application of radiopharmaceuticals. Part 2: Therapeutic procedures by Sudbrock, F, Boldt, F, Kobe, C, Hammes, J, Eschner, W, Schicha, H

“…After therapeutical application of radionuclides the patient has to be regarded as a radioactive source. The radiation exposure differs from diagnostic nuclear…”
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Respecting Choices® and advance directives in a diverse community by Pecanac, Kristen E, Repenshek, Mark F, Tennenbaum, David, Hammes, Bernard J

“…Respecting Choices® is a program designed and verified to improve advance care planning, yet it has not been tested in racially/ethnically diverse communities…”
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High-level language abstraction for reconfigurable computing by Najjar, W.A., Bohm, W., Draper, B.A., Hammes, J., Rinker, R., Beveridge, J.R., Chawathe, M., Ross, C.

“…RC systems typically consist of an array of configurable computing elements. The computational granularity of these elements ranges from simple gates - as…”
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