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The complex intervention day hospice — a quality-assured study on the implementation, realization, and benefits with model character for Germany (IMPULS) using the example of “Day hospice Adiuvantes” [PDF]

BMC Palliative Care
Background Currently, a conclusive experience on the uniform implementation and benefits of day hospice structures and interventions is lacking in Germany.
Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Ana Hoffmann, Moritz Fiedler, Alexandra Hofbauer, Michael Rechenmacher, Anne Benning, Michael Koller, Florian Kaiser   +8 more
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Influence of a day hospice on the quality of life of palliative care patients: an interview-based qualitative survey [PDF]

BMC Palliative Care
Background In addition to the established forms of outpatient palliative care, day hospices have been available in Germany as a further component of care for several years.
Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Felix Kaiser, Ana Hoffmann, Eleene Kaiser, Moritz Fiedler, Michael Rechenmacher, Florian Kaiser   +7 more
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Explaining how and why social support groups in hospice day services benefit palliative care patients, for whom, and in what circumstances

Palliative Care and Social Practice, 2023
Background: Palliative care aims to provide holistic support for people with life-limiting illness, responding to psychological, social and spiritual needs, as well as to clinical and physical.
Natasha Bradley, Christopher Dowrick, Mari Lloyd-Williams   +2 more
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A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland : how did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Introduction Social support is described by patients and other stakeholders to be a valuable component of palliative day care. Less is known about the range of hospice services that have been used in practice that facilitate social support.
NM Bradley, CF Dowrick, M Lloyd-Williams
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Hospice care utilisation among elderly patients who died with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

JHEP Reports, 2021
Background & Aims: The benefits of hospice care in Medicare recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully evaluated, which we aimed to study. Methods: We used nationally representative samples of the Medicare beneficiaries in the
Victor de Avila, James M. Paik, Leyla de Avila, Linda Henry, Denise Mohess, Alva Roche-Green, Zobair M. Younossi   +6 more
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Care and Educational Activities of the Podkarpackie Hospice for Children Foundation in 2006-2021. Selected Examples

Lubelski Rocznik Pedagogiczny, 2023
Introduction: The first hospice was established in 1967 by Cicely Saunders. Another important event was the establishment of a day centre for terminally ill patients in Sheffield at St Luke’s Hospice.
Ewa Barnaś-Baran
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Effect of hospice care on health-care costs for Taiwanese patients with cancer during their last month of life in 2004–2011: A trend analysis

Tzu Chi Medical Journal, 2020
Objective: End-of-life cancer care imposes a heavy financial burden on patients, their families, and their health insurers. The aim of this study was to explore the 8-year (2004–2011) trends in health-care costs for Taiwanese cancer decedents in their ...
Jui-Kun Chiang, Yee-Hsin Kao
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The cancer control status and APACHE II score are prognostic factors for critically ill patients with cancer and sepsis

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association, 2020
Background/purpose: Patients with cancer are eligible for hospice care when their life expectancy is 180 days or shorter. This study investigated the prognostic factors of patients with cancer and sepsis who were admitted to an intensive care unit (ICU ...
Wei-Ke Kuo, Chung-Ching Hua, Chung-Chieh Yu, Yu-Chih Liu, Chih-Yu Huang   +4 more
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A critical realist evaluation of a music therapy intervention in palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Music therapy is increasingly used as an adjunct therapy to support symptom management in palliative care. However, studies to date have paid little attention to the processes that lead to changes in patient outcomes.
Sam Porter, Tracey McConnell, Mike Clarke, Jenny Kirkwood, Naomi Hughes, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Joan Regan, Miriam McKeown, Kerry McGrillen, Joanne Reid   +9 more
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Investigation of the awareness of and demand for hospice care and attitudes towards life-sustaining treatment at the end of life among community residents in Hangzhou

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background To understand the status of residents’ awareness of and demand for hospice care services in Hangzhou and to provide a reference for promoting the formulation of hospice care-related policies in China.
Yanhong Xie, Ying Xu, Shulan Yang, Jing Yan, Xiao Qing Jin, Caixia Liu   +5 more
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