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Hospice in the nursing home: perspectives of front line nursing home staff [PDF]
, 2014 OBJECTIVE: Use of hospice has been associated with improved outcomes for nursing home residents and attitudes of nursing home staff toward hospice influences hospice referral.
Cagle, John G. +5 more
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JAMA Oncology, 2019 Importance Medicare hospice beneficiaries discontinue disease-modifying treatments because the hospice benefit limits access. While veterans have concurrent access to hospice care and Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center (VAMC)-provided treatments, the ...
V. Mor +11 more
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International Journal of Gerontology, 2016 Background: The Hospice Palliative Care Act in Taiwan was amended and allowed families to withdraw life-sustaining treatment for unconsciousness terminally ill patients. However, ventilator withdrawal in the intensive care unit (ICU) is still a challenge.
Wen-Hao Su +2 more
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Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2020 Cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are escalating rapidly across the globe, with the mortality risk being especially high among those with existing illness and multimorbidity. This study aimed to synthesize evidence for the role and response of
S. Etkind +6 more
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“Going down” and “getting deeper”: Physical and metaphorical location and movement in relation to death and spiritual care in a Scottish hospice [PDF]
, 2008 The final version of the article can be accessed at the link below.This paper illustrates how attending to the metaphors people use for particular concepts, and to the context in which they use them, can increase our understanding of the meanings they ...
Vivat, B
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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 ...
A Grady +32 more
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Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]
, 2013 The current literature suggests that perinatal palliative care (PPC) programs should be comprehensive, initiated early, and integrative. So far there have been very few publications on the subject of home-based PC of newborns and neonates.
Korzeniewska-Eksterowicz, Aleksandra +4 more
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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 +8 more
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Hospice Palliative Home Care in Canada: A Progress Report [PDF]
, 2008 This report is a snapshot of hospice palliative home care services available to Canadians in 2008. The information refers only to hospice palliative care services provided in the home.
Jean Bacon
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Arthritis &Rheumatology, EarlyView.Objective Vacuoles E1 enzyme X‐linked autoinflammatory somatic syndrome (VEXAS) is a recently identified rare genetic disorder associated with somatic mutations in the UBA1 gene. VEXAS presents with a combination of inflammatory and hematologic manifestations, leading to increased morbidity and mortality.
Arsene Mekinian +111 more
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