Objective The value of advance care planning (ACP) for patients with life-limiting illnesses is
widely recognized but Asian health care professionals'(HCPs') perspectives on ACP have …

Objective: A growing multicultural society presents healthcare providers with a difficult task
of providing appropriate care for individuals who have different life experiences, beliefs …

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and
teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine-Transforming the …

Designing and Conducting Health Surveys is written for students, teachers, researchers, and
anyone who conducts health surveys. This third edition of the standard reference in the field …

Providing an overview of the myriad ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as
an individual and as a member of society, this book will help readers understand our …

Medicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became
popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual …

Little progress has been made over the last 40 years to eliminate the racial/ethnic
differences in incidence, morbidity, avoidable suffering, and mortality from cancer that result …

Importance Little data exist on end-of-life care practices in intensive care units (ICUs) in
Asia. Objective To describe physicians' attitudes toward withholding and withdrawal of life …

Abstract Background: African Americans (AA) are more likely to receive worse end-of-life
(EOL) care and are less likely to participate in advance care planning (ACP) than white …

Context Assessment and response to patients' spiritual concerns are crucial components of
high-quality supportive care. Better measures of spiritual needs across the cultural spectrum …