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Quantifying spatial accessibility to inpatient hospices in Germany [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Spatial access is an important indicator to assess quality of healthcare services and healthcare situation, with accessibility and availability as central components.
Theresa Petzold, Friedemann Nauck, Christian Banse, Jobst Augustin, Birgit Jaspers, Maximiliane Jansky   +5 more
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Mapping end-of-life care for patients with neurological conditions in German hospices: a point prevalence survey [PDF]

BMJ Neurology Open
Background Access to palliative care for patients with neurological diseases remains limited. Contributing factors include difficulties in predicting disease trajectories, resource constraints in long-term care and challenges in identifying the end-of ...
Stefan Lorenzl, Susann Schmidt, Sarah Kristina Bublitz, André Klima, Benno Schäffer, Sabine Gleich   +5 more
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Dignity therapy for effective palliative care: a literature review [PDF]

Kosin Medical Journal, 2022
Dignity therapy for terminally ill patients in end-of-life care helps improve their psychological and spiritual well-being. In this study, the effectiveness and feasibility of dignity therapy in terminally ill patients were analyzed by reviewing previous
Se-Ryun Park, Yu-Jung Cha
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A Review on Palliative Care Challenges and Benefits [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Palliative care is a treatment strategy that aims to improve the quality of life of patients suffering from various serious illnesses. Palliative care is provided to these patients by experts from multidisciplinary fields utilising a holistic approach ...
Amit Agrawal, Dalwinder Janjua, Roshan Chanchlani, Alejandro Pando   +3 more
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Inpatient Hospices in Germany: Medical Care Situation and Use of Supportive Oncological Therapies for Symptom Control in Tumor Patients

Palliative Medicine Reports, 2022
Background: More than 80% of the residents in German hospices suffer from tumor disease. But the administration of supportive-oncological therapies in hospices for symptom control is controversially discussed.
Ulrich Kaiser, Ursula Vehling-Kaiser, Ana Hoffmann, Florian Kaiser   +3 more
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Prognostic models of survival in patients with advanced incurable cancer: the PiPS2 observational study

Health Technology Assessment, 2021
Background: The Prognosis in Palliative care Study (PiPS) prognostic survival models predict survival in patients with incurable cancer. PiPS-A (Prognosis in Palliative care Study – All), which involved clinical observations only, and PiPS-B (Prognosis ...
Patrick Stone, Anastasia Kalpakidou, Chris Todd, Jane Griffiths, Vaughan Keeley, Karen Spencer, Peter Buckle, Dori-Anne Finlay, Victoria Vickerstaff, Rumana Z Omar   +9 more
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The National Hospice and Palliative Care registry in Korea [PDF]

Epidemiology and Health, 2022
The National Hospice and Palliative Care (NHPC) registry is a nationwide database in Korea that systematically collects information on terminally ill cancer patients receiving inpatient hospice care.
Kyuwoong Kim, Bohyun Park, Bonju Gu, Eun Jeong Nam, Sue Hyun Kye, Jin Young Choi   +5 more
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Charitably funded hospices and the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic: a mixed-methods study (CovPall)

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Independent charitably funded hospices have been an important element of the UK healthcare response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hospices usually have different funding streams, procurement processes, and governance arrangements compared to NHS ...
Ian W Garner, Catherine Walshe, Lesley Dunleavey, Andy Bradshaw, Nancy Preston, Lorna K Fraser, Fliss EM Murtagh, Adejoke O Oluyase, Katherine E Sleeman, Mevhibe Hocaoglu, Sabrina Bajwah, Rachel L Chambers, Matthew Maddocks, Irene J Higginson   +13 more
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El proyecto de crear una fábrica de lonas y jarcias en el Real Hospicio de Granada (1767-1769)

Cuadernos de Ilustración y Romanticismo, 2021
In the middle of 18th century, the Spanish Crown promoted, following the en-lightened presuppositions, the creation of hospices. In them, there were factories, where indigents could work and become useful and productive persons. The majority
Isabel María Sánchez Andújar
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In Search of Hospice Information: Consumer Information Available on Hospice Compare and Yelp

Palliative Medicine Reports, 2020
Background: The hospice industry has expanded in recent years with limited oversight and few consumer-facing resources to assist consumers in selecting hospice agencies to care for their family members.
Anna N. Rahman, Susan Enguidanos
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