Survey on advance care planning of Italian outpatients on chronic haemodialysis.

Nicola PanocchiaGiuseppe TonnaraRoberta MinacoriDario SacchiniMaurizio BossolaLuigi TazzaGiovanni GambaroAntonio Gioacchino Spagnolo

Published in: BMJ supportive & palliative care (2017)

ACP should be tailored to patients' value, culture and preferences. A significant proportion of patients, however, do not want to be involved in end of life decisions. Frail elderly patients, in particular, are not inclined to interrupt dialysis, despite poor quality of life or a poor prognosis.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
poor prognosis
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
long non coding rna
prognostic factors
patient reported outcomes
smoking cessation