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Social workers’ involvement in advance care planning: a systematic narrative review

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity.
Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan, Amy Y. M. Chow   +2 more
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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Issues surrounding end-of-life decision-making

, 2013
Vickram Tejwani,1,* YiFan Wu,1,* Sabrina Serrano,2 Luis Segura,2 Michael Bannon,3 Qi Qian1 1Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, 2Mayo Graduate School, 3Department of Trauma, Critical Care, and General Surgery, Mayo Clinic ...
Wu YF, Serrano S, Bannon M, Segura L, Qian Q, Tejwani V   +5 more
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Gender and end of life care work

In this chapter, we explore the gendered nature of unpaid care work and consider the implications for how such work is understood, experienced, and valued at the end of life.
Slark, Julia, Gott, Merryn, Morgan, Tessa, Williams, Lisa   +3 more
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Evaluating complex interventions in end of life care : the MORECare statement on good practice generated by a synthesis of transparent expert consultations and systematic reviews [PDF]

, 2013
Despite being a core business of medicine, end of life care (EoLC) is neglected. It is hampered by research that is difficult to conduct with no common standards.
Gunn Grande, Morag Farquhar, Chris Todd, Penney Lewis, Gysels, M., Evans, Catherine J, Morgan, M., Higginson, I.J., Harding, Richard, Hollingworth, William, Preston, Nancy, Murray, Scott A, Evans, Catherine J; id_orcid, Paul McCrone, Richard Harding, Matthew Hotopf, Preston, N., Farquhar, M., Myfanwy Morgan, Murray, Scott A., Hamid Benalia, Higginson, Irene J., Evans, Catherine J., Benalia, H., Marjolein Gysels, Morgan, Myfanwy, ?, ?, Nancy Preston, Lewis, P., Fayers, P., Hotopf, Matthew, Irene J Higginson, Benalia, Abdelhamid, Peter Fayers, Evans, C.J., Fayers, Peter, Hotopf, M., Lewis, Penney, Scott A Murray, Higginson, Irene J; id_orcid, Catherine J Evans, Benalia, Hamid, Todd, Chris; id_orcid, Grande, Gunn, Todd, Chris, Todd, C., Grande, G., Gysels, Marjolein, Higginson, Irene J, MCrone, P., Harding-Swale, Richard, McCrone, Paul, Murray, S.A., Farquhar, Morag, Harding, R.   +54 more
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“The great escape”: how an incident of elopement gave rise to trauma informed palliative care for a patient experiencing multiple disadvantage

BMC Palliative Care
Background This case report from Scotland, UK illustrates how unresolved traumatic experiences across the life course can affect a patient’s engagement with palliative care and offers insights into the flexibility and adaptations necessary for taking a ...
Sam Quinn, Libby Ferguson, Derek Read, Naomi Richards   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals’ experiences where assisted dying is legal

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Laws allowing assisted suicide and euthanasia have been implemented in many locations around the world but some individuals suffering with terminal illness receiving palliative care services are hastening death or die by suicide without ...
Sheri Mila Gerson, Amanda Bingley, Nancy Preston, Anne Grinyer   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Liver organoids: modelling complexity in homeostasis and disease

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Studying liver in vitro has been challenging because simple 2D cell cultures fail to capture liver's cellular and architectural complexity. To bridge this gap, scientists increasingly use organoids, 3D liver models which better mimic liver composition and function. This review examines recent advances in liver organoid complexity and realism, discusses
Anna M. Dowbaj, Meritxell Huch
wiley   +1 more source

Real talk facilitator manual: Engaging patients with end of life talk [PDF]

, 2019
Video-based communication training- engaging patients in end of life talk. ‘Real Talk’ is a novel and flexible communication training resource designed to use in face-to-face training events. It features real-life video recordings of UK hospice care, and
Whittaker, Becky, Pino, Marco, Faull, Christina, Feathers, Luke, Watson, Sharan, Parry, Ruth, Land, Vicky   +6 more
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Uncovering the end-of-life trajectories of older people with serious chronic illnesses: study protocol for the quantitative longitudinal study of the TRAJECT project

BMJ Open
Introduction Older people who die with a serious chronic disease are at risk of experiencing extended periods (ie, months or years) of fluctuations and deterioration in their health and well-being.
Lieve Van den Block, Aline De Vleminck, Lara Pivodic, Nele Van Den Noortgate, Eline Naert, Lore Decoster, Casper Van den Bossche, Khyati Tripathi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source