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Luiz Carlos Ufei Hassegawa1, Marcelo Custódio Rubira2, Solange Mendes Vieira1
1Secretaria Saúde do Estado de Rondônia, Hospital de Base Ary Pinheiro. Porto Velho-RO, Brasil.
Objective:
to explain the approaches and discussions about the Advance Healthcare Directives spread among health professionals, lawyers and society.
Method:
bibliographic search in the databases SciELO, LILACS, BDENF, in Portuguese, carried out from December 2017 to January 2018.
Results:
22 articles were considered for analysis with interviews and testimonies of physicians, intensivists and geriatricians, nurses, technicians and Nursing auxiliaries, Medical students, lawyers and Law students.
Conclusion:
there is a small number of papers on the Advance Healthcare Directives in Brazil, and a wide range of approaches that have not yet been clarified. The theme is not widely spread and little clarified in its essence.
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