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A comparison of opioid dose between home palliative care and hospital palliative care

BMC Primary Care
Objective While opioids are a key part of palliative care, few studies have evaluated opioid demand in the home care context. This study aims to compare opioid usage in home care and hospital care settings.
Hiroyoshi Iwata, Shuhei Hamada, Hiroko Harada, Katsuhiro Kusaka   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of the Controlling Nutritional Status (CONUT) score as a prognostic factor for all-cause mortality in older patients without cancer receiving home medical care: hospital ward-based observational cohort study

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives Malnutrition in cancer-free older patients receiving home medical care may affect prognosis, but indicators of long-term nutrition-related prognosis have not been developed.
Yuko Goto, Hisayuki Miura
doaj   +1 more source

My Home Life: promoting quality of life in care homes [PDF]

, 2012
A new report from JRF outlines the findings from the My Home Life project. My Home Life is a collaborative initiative between Age UK, City University, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Dementia UK promoting quality of life in care homes.
Meyer, J., Owen, T.
core  

Nursing practice in home care: an integrative literature review.

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2017
Objective: analyze scientific production on nursing practice in home care. Method: integrative review employing databases LILACS, BDENF, IBECS, and MEDLINE.
Angélica Mônica Andrade, K. L. Silva, C. Seixas, P. Braga   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Perspectives of the Doctor-at-Home Service [PDF]

, 2018
Introduction. Home health care has been established as an effective model for reducing mortality in the elderly. The Doctor-at-Home Service at the Community Health Centers of Burlington (CHCB) has offered home health care to Burlington residents since ...
Carney, Jan, De Los Santos, Daniel, Hunt, Erin, Lavigne, Jolie, Lounsbury, Karen, Mitchell, Scott, Munoz, Rachel, Rodgers, Monica, Roy, Gregory, Smith, Danielle, Sokol, Karen   +10 more
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Implementing advance care planning in routine nursing home care : the development of the theory-based ACP+ program [PDF]

, 2019
Background While various initiatives have been taken to improve advance care planning in nursing homes, it is difficult to find enough details about interventions to allow comparison, replication and translation into practice. Objectives We report on the
Deliens, Luc, Gastmans, Chris, Gilissen, Joni, Pivodic, Lara, Van Dael, Annelien, Van den Block, Lieve, Van Humbeeck, Liesbeth, Vander Stichele, Robert   +7 more
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Demand uncertainty in robust Home Care optimization

Omega, 2017
We study the Home Care Problem under uncertainty. Home Care refers to medical, paramedical and social services that may be delivered to patient homes. The term includes several aspects involved in the planning of home care services, such as caregiver-to ...
P. Cappanera, M. Scutellá, F. Nervi, L. Galli   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Factors associated with formal and informal resource utilization in nursing home patients with and without dementia: cross-sectional analyses from the COSMOS trial

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Objectives To investigate the association between clinical, demographic, and organizational factors and formal (health professionals) and informal (relatives) resource utilization in nursing home patients with and without dementia.
Maarja Vislapuu, Line Iden Berge, Renira C. Angeles, Egil Kjerstad, Janne Mannseth, Wilco P. Achterberg, Bettina S. Husebo   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source