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Translation and reliability and validity of the Chinese version of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Specific Quality of Life-Short Form

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Objective To translate Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis-Specific Quality of Life-Short Form (ALSSQOL-SF) and test its reliability and validity, so that explore feasibility in Chinese mainland and make up the gap of specific tools for measuring quality of ...
Zhijie Zhang, Xin He, Jialu Cui, Jing Wang, Baoxin Shi   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A scoping review of initiatives to reduce inappropriate or non-beneficial hospital admissions and bed days in people nearing the end of their life: much innovation, but limited supporting evidence

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Hospitalisation during the last weeks of life when there is no medical need or desire to be there is distressing and expensive. This study sought palliative care initiatives which may avoid or shorten hospital stay at the end of life and ...
Ros Taylor, Jonathan Ellis, Wei Gao, Liz Searle, Kate Heaps, Robert Davies, Claire Hawksworth, Angela Garcia-Perez, Giles Colclough, Steven Walker, Bee Wee   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annual report 2012, Irish Hospice Foundation [PDF]

, 2013
Annual report of operations and activities of the Irish Hospice Foundation ...
Irish Hospice Foundation
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Posttraumatic stress disorder 2 months after induced vaginal delivery: A multicenter prospective study

International Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objectives An increased risk of postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been reported in women who had labor induced. Knowledge of childbirth‐related PTSD in this context remain poorly documented. Our aim was to assess the PTSD prevalence and identify characteristics associated with it after induced vaginal delivery at or near term.
Alizée Froeliger, Catherine Deneux‐Tharaux, Lola Loussert, Anne Laure Sutter‐Dallay, Hugo Madar, Loïc Sentilhes, on behalf of the Tranexamic Acid for Preventing Postpartum Hemorrhage Following a Vaginal Delivery (TRAAP) study group, Loïc Sentilhes, Norbert Winer, Elie Azria, Marie Victoire Sénat, Camille Le Ray, Delphine Vardon, Franck Perrotin, Raoul Desbrière, Florent Fuchs, Gilles Kayem, Guillaume Ducarme, Muriel Doret‐Dion, Cyril Huissoud, Caroline Bohec, Philippe Deruelle, Astrid Darsonval, Jean‐Marie Chrétien, Aurélien Seco, Valérie Daniel, Catherine Deneux‐Tharaux   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structures and objectives of day hospices – Design of a logic model

BMC Palliative Care
Background Day hospices represent a new component of outpatient palliative care in Germany. They focus on improving the quality of life and symptom control for patients with advanced, incurable diseases and aim to relieve the burden on family caregivers.
Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Felix Kaiser, Moritz Fiedler, Michael Rechenmacher, Elèene Kaiser, Florian Kaiser   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Grieving the death of someone close

, 2008
Information leaflet on coping with the death of someone close.
Irish Hospice Foundation
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"My Preference would be to be at Home": Patients' Experiences of their Hospice at Home Care [PDF]

, 2014
This article has been made available through the Brunel Open Access Publishing Fund.A specialist 'Hospice at Home' (HaH) service commenced in 2006 in Mid West Ireland whereby participants received palliative care from a specialist team in their own home.
Armstrong, Claire, Armstrong, C, Taylor, Ann, McKay, EA, Taylor, A, McKay, Elizabeth   +5 more
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A Mixed‐Methods Analysis of Medicare‐Enrolled Mental Health Counselors’ Professional Characteristics and Experiences With Enrollment

Journal of Counseling &Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT After becoming eligible to enroll as Medicare providers in 2024, over 60,000 mental health professionals enrolled in Medicare. We surveyed 384 Medicare‐enrolled mental health counselors licensed in 24 states and used a convergent‐parallel mixed‐methods design to examine their professional characteristics, the impact of Medicare participation ...
Matthew C. Fullen, Alexis J. Isaac, Jordan B. Westcott   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Investigation and study on caring and empathy ability of hospice nurses in Shanxi province

Huli yanjiu, 2020
ObjectiveTo investigate ability of caring and empathy of care nurses in hospice care in Shanxi province，thus to provide reference for cultivation of hospice care professionals.MethodsA total of 183 hospice nurses in Shanxi province who attended ...
MA Yurong, YANG Suyun
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Closing the Gap in Hospice Utilization for the Minority Medicare Population

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2019
Background: Medicare spends about 20% more on the last year of life for Black and Hispanic people than White people. With lower hospice utilization rates, racial/ethnic minorities receive fewer hospice-related benefits such as lesser symptoms, lower ...
M. Courtney Hughes PhD, MS, Erin Vernon PhD, MA   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source