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Behavioral Sciences, 2017 Near the end of life, hospice care reduces symptom-related distress and hospitalizations while improving caregiving outcomes. However, it takes time for a person to gain a sufficient understanding of hospice and decide to enroll.
Carey Candrian +5 more
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Local workshops on palliative care [PDF]
, 1995 The Malta Hospice Movement was established in 1989 with the aim to help in providing palliative care to cancer and motor neurone disease patients. Every year, professionals from Hayward House Palliative Care Unit in Nottingham visit the Malta Hospice ...
Ciantar, Victoria
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A team approach to recruitment in hospice research:engaging patients, close persons and health professionals [PDF]
, 2016 Research is vital to the future development of hospice care. However, research in hospice settings is very challenging. This paper describes a case study of a successful multidisciplinary research team approach (MDRT) to the recruitment of participants ...
Armour, Kathy +7 more
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Journal of Hospital Medicine, EarlyView.Abstract Background Current guidelines make no recommendations on discharge interventions or scheduling outpatient follow‐up after hospitlization for commnity‐acquired pneumonia (CAP). Objectives To assess the impact of scheduling early primary care follow‐up prior to discharge home among survivors of hypoxemic CAP hospitalizations.
Andrew J. Davis +12 more
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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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Health and Social Care in the community, 2019 The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between health literacy and hospice knowledge, attitude and decision in community-dwelling elderly participants. This cross-sectional study enrolled 990 community-dwelling elderly participants in
Hsiang-Yun Huang +9 more
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Access to Hospice Care: Expanding Boundaries, Overcoming Barriers [PDF]
, 2003 This report looks at issues of social justice, access, and public policy in hospice and palliative care. As it examines the issues from the perspectives of social justice and fairness, it also recommends ways in which the definition of hospice can be ...
Bruce Jennings +3 more
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Rehabilitation of the Hospice and Palliative Care Patient [PDF]
, 2011 Disability is a common problem among hospice and palliative care patients. It leads to depression, poor quality of life, increased caregiver needs, health care resource utilization, and need for institutionalization.
Javier, Noel S.C., Montagnini, Marcos L.
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The Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This trial was to evaluate the efficacy and the safety of colchicine for the palliative treatment of patients with primary hepatic malignancy unable to receive curative treatment. Forty hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients and two intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (ICC) patients signed the informed consents.
Zu‐Yau Lin +8 more
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Pain Control in the African Context: the Ugandan introduction of affordable morphine to relieve suffering at the end of life [PDF]
, 2010 Dr Anne Merriman is the founder of Hospice Africa and Hospice Africa Uganda. She is presently Director of Policy and International Programmes. Here she tells the story of how HAU was founded.
Anne Merriman, Richard Harding
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