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End-of-Life Care, Not End-of-Life Spending [PDF]
JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association, 2018 exaly +3 more sources
Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life [PDF]
, 2021 In this Global Review on Safer End of Engineered Life, we take a long overdue and systematic look at the scientific evidence around waste and resources management and the impact on human health and life.
Cook, E, Velis, CA
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The End of Life, The Ends of Life: An Anthropological View [PDF]
Journal of the Islamic Medical Association of North America, 2012 All known human societies have a worldview that deserves to be called religion; all religions must explain death. Anthropologists study the diversity of religious systems, present and past, in order to understand what is common to humanity. Rather than starting from the view of a particular revelation or set of doctrines, the anthropologist tries to ...
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Quality of life at the end of life [PDF]
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2007 Little is known about self-perceived quality of life (QOL) near the end of life, because such information is difficult to collect and to interpret. Here, we describe QOL in the weeks near death and determine correlates of QOL over time, with emphasis on accounting for death and missing data.Data on QOL were collected approximately every week in an ...
Downey Lois +5 more
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, 2023 This article will reflect on a case study from practice in which end-of-life care (EOLC) was initiated for a patient, after a period of hesitation. It will explore the possible reasons for this delay, especially in relation to the withdrawal of medical ...
Mortimore, G., Farrington, L.
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Suffering and the end of life [PDF]
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021 Relief of suffering is an important goal of medicine and aligns with the professional maxim of ‘do no harm’ and the bioethical principle of non‐maleficence. Capturing what individuals experience or third‐parties sense in terms of suffering is difficult, made harder in the patient who is too young or not able to tell us.
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Pharmacotherapy at the end-of-life [PDF]
Age and Ageing, 2011 Older people reaching end-of-life status are particularly at risk from inter-related adverse effects of pharmacotherapy, including polypharmacy, inappropriate medications and adverse drug events. These adverse effects of pharmacotherapy may be highly detrimental, as well as highly expensive.
O'Mahony, Denis, O'Connor, Marie N
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Enabling occupation at the end of life: A literature review [PDF]
, 2015 Objective: Occupation, or meaningful activity, can contribute to the well-being and quality of life of all individuals. It is thus a logical tautology that occupation should be enabled for those at the end of life.
Mills, Katherine, Payne, Angela
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BMJ, 2005 Clinical decisions are increasingly shaped by legal judgments In July this year the court of appeal allowed the appeal of the General Medical Council (GMC) in the case of R (Burke) v the GMC,1 setting aside the high court declaration that the GMC guidance on withholding and withdrawing life prolonging treatment was unlawful and in breach of human ...
Samanta, Jo, Samanta, Ash
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End-of-life decisions : a cross-national study of treatment preference discussions and surrogate decision-maker appointments [PDF]
, 2013 Background Making treatment decisions in anticipation of possible future incapacity is an important part of patient participation in end-of-life decision-making.
Evans, N.C. +65 more
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