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Brief encounters: end of life decision-making in critical care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The health care system has, in many respects, been developed to oppose suffering. Yet health care’s almost compulsive urge to treat death as the enemy and to battle disease and injury with all available technology unavoidably results in suffering for ...
Sundin-Huard, Deborah
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Naltrexone treatment for prolonged grief disorder: study protocol for a randomized, triple-blinded, placebo-controlled trial

open access: yesTrials, 2021
Background There is a lack of effective pharmacotherapy for prolonged grief disorder (PGD). Evidence suggests that the neurobiology of PGD involves the same circuitry as the reward pathway.
James Gang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

End of Life and Sanctity of Life

open access: yesAMA Journal of Ethics, 2005
Physicians need to understand their roles and limitations of their own faith in providing end-of-life care. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
Rabbi Edward, Reichman   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hastening death in end-of-life care: A survey of doctors [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Social Science & Medicine. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Seale, C
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

End of life care planning - why it is everyone’s concern? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
To mark Dying Matters Awareness Week (May 8-14), Michelle Brown, Deputy Head of Department for Healthcare Practice, explains why everyone – young or old – should make sure they know what end of life care planning involves.
Brown, Michelle
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summary of proceedings from the launch symposium, discussion, and proposed action plan for the England Centre for Practice Development’s international community of practice for end of life care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This paper provides a summary of summary of proceedings from the launch symposium, discussion, and proposed action plan for the England Centre for Practice Development’s International Community of Practice for End of Life Care held at The Spitfire ...
The England Centre for Practice Development International Community of Practice for End of Life Care   +1 more
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The BOOST paediatric advance care planning intervention for adolescents with cancer and their parents: development, acceptability and feasibility

open access: yesBMC Pediatrics, 2022
Background Although advance care planning (ACP) has been widely recommended to support patient and family engagement in understanding the patient’s values, preferences and goals of care, there are only a few models in paediatric oncology that capture ACP
Anne van Driessche   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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