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Results of the 2010/2011 Hospice Patient Survey General Report [PDF]

, 2011
The 2010/11 survey is the fourth in a series of surveys on patient satisfaction with inpatient and daycare services. Carried out by Help the Hospices and the Centre for Health Services Studies at the University of Kent, with previous surveys being ...
Codling, Jan, Jenkins, Linda M.
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Stroke with unknown time of symptom onset: baseline clinical and magnetic resonance imaging data of the first thousand patients in WAKE-UP (efficacy and safety of mri-based thrombolysis in wake-up stroke: a randomized, doubleblind, placebo-controlled trial) [PDF]

, 2017
Background and Purpose—We describe clinical and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) characteristics of stroke patients with unknown time of symptom onset potentially eligible for thrombolysis from a large prospective cohort.
Boutitie, Florent, Cheng, Bastian, Cho, Tae-Hee, Ebinger, Martin, Endres, Matthias, Fiebach, Jochen B., Fiehler, Jens, Ford, Ian, Galinovic, Ivana, Gerloff, Christian, Lemmens, Robin, Muir, Keith W., Nighoghossian, Norbert, Pedraza, Salvador, Puig, Josep, Roy, Pascal, Simonsen, Claus Z., Thijs, Vincent, Thomalla, Götz   +18 more
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Deep brain stimulation of the thalamus for intractable epilepsy (FRANCE study): A randomized clinical trial

Epilepsia, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficacy and safety of deep brain stimulation (DBS) of the anterior nucleus of the thalamus (ANT) compared with best medical treatment (BMT) in patients with drug‐resistant epilepsy (DRE).
Stéphan Chabardès, Fabrice Bartolomei, Anca Nica, Claire Haegelen, Lorella Minotti, Brigitte Piallat, Chrystele Mosca, Sandrine Massicot, Sylvain Rheims, Marc Guenot, Emmanuel Cuny, Jérome Aupy, Louis Maillard, Sophie Colnat‐Coulbois, Corentin Leroy, Romain Carron, Philippe Coubes, Philippe Gélisse, Carine Karachi, Vincent Navarro, Bertrand Devaux, Francine Chassoux, Phlippe Derambure, Nicolas Reyns, Jean Christope Sol, Luc Valton, Denys Fontaine, Veronique Bourg, Philippe Kahane, Sandra David‐Tchouda, Jean Regis   +30 more
wiley   +1 more source

Systemic Treatments for Recurrent or Metastatic Sinonasal Carcinomas: A Retrospective Multicenter Study

Head &Neck, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sinonasal cancers are rare and heterogeneous and pose a therapeutic challenge at an advanced stage due to the lack of data on appropriate systemic management. Methods This retrospective multicenter study analyzed 83 patients with recurrent or metastatic sinonasal carcinomas ineligible for curative treatment, treated in France ...
Marie Degrange, Mathilde Morisseau, Justin Michel, Thibaut Reverdy, Sylvain Morinière, Amaury Daste, Maxime Humbert, Caroline Viala, Pauline Corbaux, Tiffany Darbas, François‐Régis Ferrand, Valentin Favier, Camille Evrard, Diane Evrard, Delphine Farneti, Sarah Betrian‐Lagarde, Victor Sarradin   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Developing research collaborations and building capacity in palliative and end-of-life care in the North West Coast of England: the PalCaRe-NWC partnership

Public Health Research
Background The North West Coast area of England (Lancashire, Merseyside, Cheshire and South Cumbria) has high palliative care need (third highest prevalence in England) and historically low recorded National Institute for Health and Care Research ...
Lesley Dunleavy, Ruth Board, Seamus Coyle, Andrew Dickman, John Ellershaw, Amy Gadoud, Jaime Halvorsen, Nick Hulbert-Williams, Liz Lightbody, Stephen Mason, Amara Callistus Nwosu, Andrea Partridge, Sheila Payne, Nancy Preston, Brooke Swash, Vanessa Taylor, Catherine Walshe   +16 more
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Funding for Health in Africa: Mapping the U. S. Foundation Landscape, 2000-2002 [PDF]

, 2004
This report presents an overview of funding by foundations based in the United States for health related activities in Africa for the three-year period from 2000 through ...
Niamani Mutima
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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, B Gomes, B Gomes, B Pham, C Butler, C Butler, Caragh Flannery, Claire Butler, Department of Health, DN Guerriere, G Grande, G King, GE Grande, GE Grande, GE Grande, Heather Gage, IJ Higginson, IJ Higginson, J Townsend, JA Cosgrift, JP Raftery, L Stosz, Laura M. Holdsworth, M Mantz, National Council Palliative Care, National Health Service End of Life Programme, O Tamar, Peter Williams, R Addicott, R Addicott, R Gandy, S Smith, Y Asada   +32 more
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The Non‐Professional Virtues of the Hospice Volunteer

Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Volunteers have long played a significant role in hospice care. Much of the care volunteers provide consists of weekly hour‐long in‐home visits. Home‐visiting hospice volunteers are not professionals, nor are they strangers or intimates. Hospice volunteers will not typically face moral dilemmas, nor be called upon to make dramatic decisions ...
Michael B. Gill
wiley   +1 more source

Closing the Gap in Hospice Utilization for the Minority Medicare Population

Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2019
Background: Medicare spends about 20% more on the last year of life for Black and Hispanic people than White people. With lower hospice utilization rates, racial/ethnic minorities receive fewer hospice-related benefits such as lesser symptoms, lower ...
M. Courtney Hughes PhD, MS, Erin Vernon PhD, MA   +1 more
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Drug Policy Places New Pressures on Hospice

Voices in Bioethics, 2014
The Policy After outcry over a new rule intended to help avoid duplicate payments for medications of hospice beneficiaries, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services met June 25th with representatives of thirty hospice organizations, who argue ...
Randi Belisomo
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