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Impact of a hospice rapid response service on preferred place of death, and costs [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Many people with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home. A new palliative rapid response service (RRS) provided by a large hospice provider in South East England was evaluated (2010) to provide evidence of impact on achieving ...
Holdsworth, LM, Caragh Flannery, Flannery, C, Butler, C, Gage, Heather, Heather Gage, Flannery, Caragh, Laura M. Holdsworth, Williams, P, Claire Butler, Holdsworth, Laura M., Williams, Peter, Peter Williams, Butler, Claire   +13 more
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Evaluation of a hospice rapid response community service: a controlled evaluation [PDF]

, 2012
(provisional) Background While most people faced with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home, less than a third in England are enabled to do so with many dying in National Health Service hospitals.
Holdsworth, LM, Holdsworth Laura M, Coulton Simon, Laura M Holdsworth, Butler, C, Simon Coulton, Claire Butler, Gage, Heather, Heather Gage, Holdsworth, Laura M., Gage Heather, Butler Claire, Butler, Claire, Coulton, Simon, Coulton, S, Claire Butler   +15 more
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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
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The willingness and influencing factors of nursing students to hospice care for patients with end⁃of⁃life cancer

Huli yanjiu, 2023
ObjectiveTo investigate the willingness and influencing factors of nursing students to hospice care for patients with end⁃of⁃life cancer.MethodsA survey，involving 644 nursing students from a medical college in Hangzhou city，was conducted by using self ...
LUO Zhuoqi, ZHANG Hualiang, WANG Lifei
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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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Dexmedetomidine Combined With Patient-Controlled Analgesia for Palliative Sedation in Terminal-Stage Cancer Patients With Refractory Pain: A Retrospective Analysis of Nine Cases

Pain Research and Management
Conclusion: DEX emerges as a promising option for palliative sedation in terminal-stage cancer patients. When used in conjunction with PCA, DEX has been shown to effectively, safely, and stably control refractory pain without inducing adverse effects ...
Na Li, Yumei Wang, Meng Cui
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129 Exploration of volunteers and support workers initiation of quality of life conversations in hospice palliative day care

, 2019
Treetops Hospice, in partnership with University of Derby have commenced a research project exploring the outcomes of developing volunteers, in initiating conversations around quality of life.
Alison Hembrow, Sharan Watson, Hembrow, Alison, Watson, Sharan   +3 more
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What makes palliative care needs “complex”? A multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study of patients referred for specialist palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Specialist palliative care (SPC) providers tend to use the term ‘complex’ to refer to the needs of patients who require SPC. However, little is known about complex needs on first referral to a SPC service.
Anne M. Finucane, Connie Swenson, John I. MacArtney, Rachel Perry, Hazel Lamberton, Lucy Hetherington, Lisa Graham-Wisener, Scott A. Murray, Emma Carduff   +8 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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Implementation of a hospice community service redesign: Qualitative research identifying lessons learned

Palliative Care and Social Practice
Background: The need to improve equity of access to palliative care is well recognized; however, much less is known about how new models of hospice community services can be successfully introduced.
Kate Sugar, Candy McCabe, Alison Llewellyn, Wayne de Leeuw, Maggie Crowe, Claire Prendergast, Charlotte Spence, Natasha Bradley   +7 more
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