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Diversity-sensitive palliative and hospice care in Germany - awareness, attitudes, and measures taken by service providers. [PDF]

BMC Palliat Care
Erdsiek F, Idris MM, Yilmaz-Aslan Y, Brzoska P.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Discovering Legacies: Fathers, Sons, Masculinities, and Equity Within Families

Journal of Family Theory &Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this article, I examine how personal experiences within my family and my homeplace communities have shaped 20 years of basic and applied research, as well as theorizing, on fathering and masculinities. I focus on how my practice of reflexive research has led me to discover legacies of masculinities across generations of my own family ...
Kevin Roy
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Eye Donation Discussions in a Hospice Care Setting: A Quality Improvement Initiative. [PDF]

Cureus
MacInnes E.
europepmc   +1 more source

Perspectives of Older Patients on the Complexity of Medication Use

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Medication use complexity is associated with non‐adherence, hospitalizations, and lower quality of life. It is most frequently measured with the Medication Regimen Complexity Index (MRCI). This instrument estimates the complexity of a patient's medication regimen, taking into account the pharmaceutical dosage forms and routes ...
Charlotte M. Falke, Mariëlle F. J. Koolen, Samuel L. Timmer, Fatma Karapinar‐Çarkit, Marcel L. Bouvy, Antoine C. G. Egberts, Wilma Knol   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospice care for Medicaid cancer patients in Puerto Rico: implications on healthcare costs and utilization. [PDF]

JNCI Cancer Spectr
Ortiz-Ortiz KJ, Vázquez-Roldán M, Gierbolini-Bermúdez A, Ramos-Fernández M, Torres-Cintrón CR, Pagán-Santana Y, Suárez-Ramos T, Sonawane K.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Characteristics of the Long‐Term Care Data Cooperative: A New Resource for Research on Outcomes in Long‐Term Care

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The long‐term care (LTC) Data Cooperative is a National Institute on Aging‐funded data resource that links skilled nursing facility (SNF) electronic health record (EHR) data with Medicare and Medicaid claims for use in comparative effectiveness and interventional research.
Stephanie M. Kissam, Terry Hawk, Amy Recker, Catherine Rogers Murray, Dustin Burns, David D. Dore, David R. Gifford, Vincent Mor, Elizabeth M. White   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effect of an Early Cognitive Intervention on Global Cognition in Older Hospitalized Adults With Delirium

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Delirium afflicts 17% of older emergency department (ED) patients and 25% of older hospitalized patients. This form of acute brain failure is associated with accelerated cognitive decline. We conducted a randomized controlled trial to determine whether early cognitive intervention improved 4‐month global cognition in older ED ...
Jin H. Han, James C. Jackson, Eduard E. Vasilevskis, Guanchao Wang, Cathy A. Jenkins, Mariu C. Duggan, N. Zeynep Kubilay, Jordan Thompson, Kelly M. Moser, Patsy T. Bryant, Karen F. Miller, Jesse O. Wrenn, John F. Schnelle, Robert S. Dittus, E. Wesley Ely, Sandra Simmons   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing Pharmacogenetic Results to Optimize Medication Management in Hospice Care: A Pilot Study. [PDF]

J Pers Med
Dreikorn EN, Maxwell C, Rowe K, Brooks B, Munro C, Robin Berman N, Berenbrok LA, Massart MB.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

End‐of‐Life Loneliness, Social Isolation, and Symptom Burden: A Nationally‐Representative Study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness (subjective feeling of lacking connection) and social isolation (objective deficit in number of relationships or contact with others) are common at the end‐of‐life and can be detrimental to quality of life. Investigating the association between symptoms and end‐of‐life loneliness and social isolation could help inform ...
Mara Rosenberg, Irena Cenzer, Alexander K. Smith, Ashwin A. Kotwal   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Temporal Trends, Setting, and Timing of Palliative and Hospice Care in COPD in the Veterans Health Administration, 2010-2020. [PDF]

CHEST Pulm
Smirnova N, Cross SH, Kempker JA, Sullivan DR, Reinke LF, Smallwood N, Plumley R, Duan K, Feder SL, Ma Y, Vaughan C, Au D, Kavalieratos D.   +12 more
europepmc   +1 more source