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Comparison of the Hospice Systems in the United States, Japan and Taiwan

Asian Nursing Research, 2010
The aim of hospice care is to provide the best possible quality of life both for people approaching the end of life and for their families and carers. The Korean government has been implementing a pilot project for hospital hospice services and trying to
Chung Yul Lee, RN, PhD, Hiroko Komatsu, RN, PhD, Weihua Zhang, RN, PhD, Yann-Fen Chao, RN, PhD, Ki Kyong Kim, RN, PhD, Gwang Suk Kim, RN, PhD, Yoon Hee Cho, RN, PhD, Ji Sook Ko, RN, MSN   +7 more
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Family carer experiences of hospice care at home: qualitative findings from a mixed methods realist evaluation [PDF]

, 2023
Background: Hospice-at-home aims to enable patients approaching end-of-life to die at home and support their carers. A wide range of different service models exists but synthesised evidence on how best to support family carers to provide sustainable end ...
Rees-Roberts, Melanie, Goodwin, Mary, Hashem, Ferhana, Swash, Brooke, Wee, Bee, Brigden, Charlotte, Silsbury, Graham, Wilson, Patricia M., Gage, Heather, Greene, Kay, Wilson, Patricia, Abrahamson, Vanessa, Williams, Peter, Mikelyte, Rasa, Barclay, Stephen, Butler, Claire   +15 more
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Irish Hospice Foundation Annual Report 2021

, 2022
he pandemic created a very challenging environment for IHF to achieve its vision of an Ireland where people experiencing dying, death and bereavement are provided with the care and support they need and where every death matters.
Irish Hospice Foundation
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A Nationwide Survey of Bereaved Family Members' Perception of the Place Patients Spent Their Final Days: Is the Inpatient Hospice Like or Unlike a Home? Why?

Palliative Medicine Reports, 2020
Background: During end-of-life care, the place in which the patients spend time influences their quality of life. Objective: To clarify what it means to spend last days at home and in inpatient hospice.
Hiroyuki Otani, Tatsuya Morita, Naoko Igarashi, Yasuo Shima, Mitsunori Miyashita   +4 more
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Literature Review of the Evidence Base for a Hospice at Home Service [PDF]

, 2008
This literature review aimed to identify the evidence base for a hospice at home service at the end of life for facilitating death at home to narrow the gap between preference and reality.
Stosz, Laura
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Paediatric clonidine medication errors: Findings from a multicentre French study

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Aims This study aimed to describe the characteristics of medication errors involving clonidine in paediatric patients and reported to French Network of Pharmacovigilance and Poison Control Centres. Methods This retrospective observational study analysed clonidine‐related medication errors reported between 1985 and June 2024 in patients under 12 years ...
Eve‐Marie Thillard, Anthony Facile, Marion Lepelley, Morgane Cellier, Laurent Chouchana, Sophie Gautier, Ramy Azzouz, Thierry Vial, Annie‐Pierre Jonville‐Bera   +8 more
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Irish Hospice Foundation Annual Report 2020

, 2021
Every death matters – and we only have one chance to get it right. Many of the experiences of dying, death and bereavement during 2020 fell very far short of the expressed wishes of the Irish people in relation to what they want for themselves or their ...
Irish Hospice Foundation
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Acute toxic leucoencephalopathy following protonitazene ingestion

British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, EarlyView.
Background Distribution of illicit counterfeit alprazolam containing the highly potent synthetic opioid‐receptor agonist protonitazene recently resulted in a number of severe overdoses in Ireland. We report three cases that presented to our hospital, within 6 weeks of one another, following ingestion of illicitly‐sourced alprazolam.
Ruadhan O'Laoi, Holly Acton, Pierce Kavanagh, Isabelle Hunt, Niall Sheehy, Cormac Kennedy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Dying Well at Home- Focus Group Report

, 2023
Research, both in Ireland and internationally, consistently demonstrates that home is the preferred place of death for the majority of people. Despite this, the realities of providing end- of-life care in the home can be challenging due to the limited ...
Mackay, Euan, Irish Hospice Foundation, Forester, Nicole, Damery, Marese   +3 more
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Interpersonal Trauma and the Clustering of Vulnerability in Forensic Inpatients: A Population‐Level Cross‐Sectional Exploratory Analysis

Behavioral Sciences &the Law, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Interpersonal potentially traumatic events (PTEs), including physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, are common among forensic mental health patient populations, yet population‐level research examining their broader sociodemographic, forensic, and behavioural characteristics remains limited.
Bailey J. Thompson, N. Zoe Hilton, Elke Ham, Tisha J. Ornstein   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source