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Utilisation of after-hours telephone support in a home-based hospice service

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background After-hours support from hospice providers is instrumental to patients with serious illness who choose to remain at home, particularly at end of life.
Poh-Heng Chong, Jasmin Lee, Zhi-Zheng Yeo, Raymond Qishun Ang   +3 more
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Predictors of the final place of care of patients with advanced cancer receiving integrated home-based palliative care: a retrospective cohort study

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Meeting patients’ preferences for place of care at the end-of-life is an indicator of quality palliative care. Understanding the key elements required for terminal care within an integrated model may inform policy and practice, and ...
Ri Yin Tay, Rozenne W. K. Choo, Wah Ying Ong, Allyn Y. M. Hum   +3 more
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Evaluation of Racial Disparities in Hospice Use and End-of-Life Treatment Intensity in the REGARDS Cohort

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Key Points Question Are there differences between Black and White patients in the use of hospice and intensity of end-of-life treatment? Findings In this cohort study of 1212 decedents, Black individuals were significantly less likely to use hospice and ...
Katherine A. Ornstein, David L Roth, Jin Huang, E. Levitan, J. D. Rhodes, C. Fabius, Monika M Safford, O. Sheehan   +7 more
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Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2020
Objectives: Published research in disparities in advance care planning, palliative, and end-of-life care is limited. However, available data points to significant barriers to palliative and end-of-life care among minority adults.
M. Bazargan, S. Bazargan-Hejazi
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COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on U.S. Hospice Agencies: A National Survey of Hospice Nurses and Physicians

The American journal of hospice & palliative care, 2021
Background: Hospice agencies face unique challenges during times of widespread public health emergencies. The pandemic of novel coronavirus disease COVID-19 is widely affecting global healthcare systems.
J. B. Rogers, Lori Constantine, Jesse M. Thompson, Charles T. Mupamombe, Jennifer M Vanin, R. Navia   +5 more
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Impact of Comorbid Dementia on Patterns of Hospice Use

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2021
Background: The evidence base for understanding hospice use among persons with dementia is almost exclusively based on individuals with a primary terminal diagnosis of dementia.
Melissa D. Aldridge, Lauren J. Hunt, Mohammed Husain, Lihua Li, A. Kelley   +4 more
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Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care: a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background The provision of palliative care is increasing, with many people dying in community-based settings. It is essential that communication is effective if and when patients transition from hospice to community palliative care.
Katharine Weetman, Jeremy Dale, Sarah J. Mitchell, Claire Ferguson, Anne M. Finucane, Peter Buckle, Elizabeth Arnold, Gemma Clarke, Despoina-Elvira Karakitsiou, Tracey McConnell, Nikhil Sanyal, Anna Schuberth, Georgia Tindle, Rachel Perry, Bhajneek Grewal, Katarzyna A. Patynowska, John I. MacArtney   +16 more
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Changes in the treatment rate of patients newly diagnosed with stage IV cancer near the end of life from 2012 to 2017 in Korea [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2023
OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate changes in the cancer treatment rate among patients newly diagnosed with stage IV cancer using socio-demographic and clinical subgroups in a nationwide cohort of Korean patients.
Kyuwoong Kim, Hyun Jung Jho, So Jung Park, Bohyun Park, Jin Young Choi   +4 more
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Role of Hospice Care at the End of Life for People With Cancer.

Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020
Patient-defined factors that are important at the end of life include being physically independent for as long as possible, good symptom control, and spending quality time with friends and family.
D. Currow, M. Agar, J. Phillips
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Hospice care utilisation among elderly patients who died with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

JHEP Reports, 2021
Background & Aims: The benefits of hospice care in Medicare recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully evaluated, which we aimed to study. Methods: We used nationally representative samples of the Medicare beneficiaries in the
Victor de Avila, James M. Paik, Leyla de Avila, Linda Henry, Denise Mohess, Alva Roche-Green, Zobair M. Younossi   +6 more
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