Help patients plan for a potential health crisis
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Help patients plan for a potential health crisis

Lynne Pearce Health journalist

The ReSPECT scheme uses advance discussions to make care choices for a future emergency

Having potentially difficult conversations with patients about their preferences for treatment can be challenging at the best of times. It is even harder when they’re extremely unwell or having a health crisis.

Nursing Standard. 34, 3, 69-71. doi: 10.7748/ns.34.3.69.s21

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