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End-of-life care and dementia [PDF]

, 2006
In the UK, research continues to confirm that people with certain chronic illnesses, such as chronic lung disease and cardiac failure, represent the ‘disadvantaged dying’ compared to those with terminal cancer.
Ballard, Clive, Daley, Sarah, Hughes, Julian, Keady, John, Robinson, Louise, Volicer, Ladislav   +5 more
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Improving Care at the End of Life [PDF]

, 2011
Reviews RWJF's investments in improving end-of-life care, impact on the field, and lessons learned, including the need to coordinate objectives, integrate strategies, tie strategies to policy changes and incentives, and link communications and ...
Abby Spector, Elizabeth Thompson, Patricia Patrizi   +2 more
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Care and compassion at the end of life [PDF]

, 2012
Aim: To examine the provision of the ‘end of life care strategy’ and the perception of provision by patients and carers. Introduction: In determining what constitutes excellence in care at the end of life, one must firstly acknowledge ‘what care and ...
Brown, Michelle
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Belgian psychiatrists’ attitudes towards, and readiness to engage in, euthanasia assessment procedures with adults with psychiatric conditions: a survey

BMC Psychiatry, 2020
Background Although the Belgian assessment pathway for legal euthanasia requires the engagement of at least one psychiatrist, little is known about psychiatrists’ attitudes towards euthanasia for adults with psychiatric conditions (APC).
Monica Verhofstadt, Kurt Audenaert, Kris Van den Broeck, Luc Deliens, Freddy Mortier, Koen Titeca, Koen Pardon, Kenneth Chambaere   +7 more
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Toward Optimal End-of-Life Care for Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Insights from a Multicentre Study

Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2008
BACKGROUND: Understanding patients’ needs and perspectives is fundamental to improving end-of-life (EOL) care. However, little is known of what quality care means to patients who have advanced lung disease.
Graeme M Rocker, Peter M Dodek, Daren K Heyland, for the Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network   +3 more
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Consultation of parents and healthcare professionals in end-of-life decision-making for neonates and infants: a population-level mortality follow-back physician survey

BMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background End-of-life decisions with potential life-shortening effect in neonates and infants are common. We aimed to evaluate how often and in what manner neonatologists consult with parents and other healthcare providers in these cases, and whether ...
Laure Dombrecht, Filip Cools, Joachim Cohen, Luc Deliens, Linde Goossens, Gunnar Naulaers, Kim Beernaert, Kenneth Chambaere   +7 more
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Medical end-of-life decisions in the oldest old in Switzerland

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
AIMS OF THE STUDY To analyse medical end-of-life decision making among the oldest old (80+ years) in Switzerland, focusing not only on treatments withheld or withdrawn but also on those continued until death ...
Kathrin Hug, Yolanda W.H. Penders, Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari, Matthias Bopp, Georg Bosshard, for the Swiss End-of-Life Decisions Study Group   +5 more
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Overlapping borders: limit of viability and late terminations of pregnancy – a retrospective multicentre observational study

Swiss Medical Weekly, 2020
AIMS OF THE STUDY Based on an incidental observation made in the context of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project 67 “End-of-life decision-making in extremely low birth weight infants in Switzerland”, this retrospective ...
Fabienne Berger, Hans U. Bucher, Jean-Claude Fauchère, Sven M. Schulzke, Thomas M. Berger, for the Swiss End-of-Life Study Group   +5 more
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Advance care planning for adolescents with cancer and their parents: study protocol of the BOOST pACP multi-centre randomised controlled trial and process evaluation

BMC Pediatrics, 2021
Background Research has highlighted the need for evidence-based interventions to improve paediatric advance care planning (pACP) in adolescents with cancer.
Anne van Driessche, Aline De Vleminck, Joni Gilissen, Marijke C. Kars, Jutte van der Werff ten Bosch, Luc Deliens, Joachim Cohen, Kim Beernaert   +7 more
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GPs and end of life decisions : views and experiences [PDF]

, 2015
The views and experiences of GPs with respect to end of life (EoL) care are seldom addressed. The aim of this article is to better understand this aspect of care. A cross-sectional survey of all doctors in the country was designed and set up. The overall
Bashar Zogheib, Emran Tohidi, Stanford Shateyi   +2 more
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