Participatory System Mapping of a Hospice Care System With Hospice Stakeholders: Hybrid Design Workshop Study [PDF]
BackgroundPalliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) systems are expanding across services, settings, and stakeholders, increasing their complexity and the need for systemic understanding to support patient outcomes and service delivery.
Andrew Tibbles, Farnaz Nickpour
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Spiritual health care : an enquiry into the spiritual care of patients with cancer within the acute hospital and the specialist inpatient palliative care unit in England and Wales [PDF]
Question: What are the features of the spiritual care of patients with cancer within hospice and the acute hospital? Objectives: To identify: guidelines relating to spiritual care, the means whereby spiritual needs are assessed key features
Wright, Michael Christopher
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In the A. Gemelli university hospital in Rome, the presence of highly specialized inter-professional palliative care teams and spiritual assistants who are dedicated to their role in the service of inpatients is valuable to person-centered healthcare ...
Alessandro Mantini +5 more
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End-Of-Life Care in a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit: A Retrospective Analysis of Interventions During the Last 48 Hours. [PDF]
ABSTRACT Background Palliative care in intensive care units should be planned jointly with patients and their families and documented in medical records. Proximity to death should prompt reassessment of the therapeutic strategy. Aim To analyse the interventions performed during the last 48 h in patients who died in the cardiac intensive care unit ...
Gomes ET, Celes LB, Dos Reis Cirino GA.
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A national study of chaplaincy services and end-of-life outcomes
Background Medicine has long acknowledged the role of chaplains in healthcare, but there is little research on the relationship between chaplaincy care and health outcomes. The present study examines the association between chaplaincy services and end-of-
Flannelly Kevin J +5 more
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Illinois Masonic Hospital News, 1960 April [PDF]
Illinois Masonic Hospital, Chicago, IL: Informational publication about the Illinois Masonic Hospital. This issue has photographs and a recap of the annual meeting, information on the hospital chaplaincy service, and other hospital updates.https ...
Advocate Aurora Health
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Spiritual Support on Skype for the Seriously Ill
Newly diagnosed and seriously ill patients who need spiritual support, but are unable to travel for it, can now access free counseling via Skype or phone from chaplains working with ChaplainsOnHand.org, ChaplainCareforVeterans.org and ...
Randi Belisomo
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Research on healthcare chaplaincy-identity over the years has to a large extent, been both theory-driven and less pronounced in the field of chaplaincy. While this research has contributed important insights, it has also called for empirical/qualitative ...
Grimell, Jan,
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The role and contribution of a multi-faith prison chaplaincy to the contemporary prison service [PDF]
This report is the outcome of research carried out by the Cardiff Centre for Chaplaincy Studies on behalf of the National Offender Management Service. The research was into the contribution of prison chaplaincy in England and Wales to the contemporary ...
Tipton, Lee, Todd, Andrew
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The implementation of a psycho-oncology program at a cancer centre in Lagos, Nigeria
Sub-Saharan Africa suffers from a severe shortage of psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers making it difficult to provide adequate social and psychological support to cancer patients.
Lilian Ekpo +6 more
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