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Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace [PDF]
, 2017 [Excerpt] In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working condidtions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job.
Karmel, Jonathan D.
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee +9 more
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Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2022 Background: Access to affordable, appropriate housing is one of the key social determinants of health, affecting well-being across the lifecourse. However, beyond a recognition that housing quality is linked to place of death, little is known about the ...
Lorraine Hansford +2 more
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Review: Factors Relating to Nurses\u27 Caring Behaviors for Dying Patients [PDF]
, 2011 Background: Nowadays, caring for patients at the end of life becomes an indicator of the quality of care in a hospital. Nurses are the key people to provide care for dying patients, therefore caring behaviors of nurses could affect the quality of care ...
Nilmanat, K. (Kittikorn) +1 more
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Key features of palliative care service delivery to Indigenous peoples in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the United States: A comprehensive review [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Indigenous peoples in developed countries have reduced life expectancies, particularly from chronic diseases. The lack of access to and take up of palliative care services of Indigenous peoples is an ongoing concern.
A Liberati +60 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song +15 more
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Key Topics on End-of-Life Care for African Americans [PDF]
, 2006 Racial classifications of human populations are politically and socially determined. There is no biological or genetic basis for these racial classifications. Health behaviors may be influenced by culture and poverty.
Bernice Harper +23 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek +13 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Based on the concept of “Daseinsverabschiedung”, an anthropological theory of “Anticipated Farewell to Existence” (AFE) was suggested on the basis of six grounding dimensions: selfhood, interpersonality, temporality, corporeality, worldliness,
Juan Valdés-Stauber +4 more
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National Indigenous Palliative Care Needs Study [PDF]
, 2003 This study involved extensive consultation with the community to identify the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in palliative ...
Claire Colyer +6 more
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