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A New Medicare End-of-Life Benefit for Nursing Home Residents [PDF]

, 2010
A new Medicare benefit is needed to support end-of-life care for those spending their final days in a nursing home, say the authors of this article.
David G. Stevenson, Haiden A. Huskamp, Joseph P. Newhouse, Michael E. Chernew   +3 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hospital and Temporal Variations in Limitations of Care Among Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19: A VIRUS Registry Retrospective Cohort Study

Palliative Medicine Reports
Introduction: Life-support limits (i.e., code status), the first step in the continuum of palliation and end-of-life (EoL) care, stem from decisions made by patients and their providers to align care near the EoL with patients’ wishes.
Nathan Mesfin, Nitesh Kumar Jain, Anwar Khedr, Hisham Mushtaq, Abbas B. Jama, Noura Attallah, Esraa Hassan, Benjamin Langworthy, Nicholas Ingraham, Juan Pablo Domecq Garces, Thoyaja Koritala, Donna Lee Armaignac, Nicholas Eugene Perkins, Katherine Belden, Vishakha Kumar, Karen Boman, Devang K. Sanghavi, Vikas Bansal, Rahul Kashyap, Rodrigo Cartin-Ceba, Abigail La Nou, Allan J. Walkey, R. Adams Dudley, Syed Anjum Khan   +23 more
doaj   +1 more source

Using a Requirements Modelling Language to Co-Design Intelligent Support for People Living with Dementia [PDF]

, 2020
Context and motivation: this research developed a new AI application to support people with dementia to maintain quality of life. Problem: the research explored methods for co-designing models of goals that users of an AI application will seek to achieve.
Lockerbie, J., Maiden, N.
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Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

End-of-life priorities of older adults with terminal illness and caregivers: A qualitative consultation [PDF]

, 2019
Background As older adults approach the end‐of‐life (EOL), many are faced with complex decisions including whether to use medical advances to prolong life. Limited information exists on the priorities of older adults at the EOL.
Barr, Margo, Cardona, Magnolia, Dawson, Angela, Hanly, Laura, Harrison, Reema, Hillman, Ken, Lewis, Ebony T., McFarland, Kathryn, Psirides, Alex, Zammit, Alexandra   +9 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

A prospective feasibility study evaluating the implementation of model-informed precision dosing in critically ill children

Frontiers in Pharmacology
Achieving optimal antibiotic exposure in critically ill pediatric patients is difficult due to (their) dynamic physiology and variability. Conventional weight-based regimens often fail to reach pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic (PK/PD) targets for narrow ...
Izgi Bayraktar, Merve Kaşıkcı, Zuhal Benek, Karel Allegaert, Karel Allegaert, Karel Allegaert, Karel Allegaert, Berna Egehan Oruncu, Selman Kesici, Benan Bayrakci, Nadir Yalcin   +10 more
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Physiological and Technical Considerations of Extracorporeal CO2 Removal

Critical Care, 2019
This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2019. Other selected articles can be found online at https://www.biomedcentral.com/collections/annualupdate2019.
Christian Karagiannidis, Felix Hesselmann, Eddy Fan   +2 more
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Emerging communities of child-healthcare practice in the management of long-term conditions such as chronic kidney disease: Qualitative study of parents' accounts [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Parents of children and young people with long-term conditions who need to deliver clinical care to their child at home with remote support from hospital-based professionals, often search the internet for care-giving information.
A Macfadyen, AL May, Andy Hall, B Flyvbjerg, BL Patterson, C Clarke, C Jaye, C Pope, C Tuffrey, Darzi, DJ Ward, DOH, E Ahmann, E Coakes, E Lesser, E Wenger, E Wenger, E Wenger, G Crow, H Roberts, I Falk, Ian Carolan, ICT, J Betancourt, J Collier, J Ellins, J Flora, J Lathlean, J Lave, KL Whyte, L Lowes, L Thrysoe, M Dixon-Woods, M Lewis, MD Sinha, MRC, Office for National Statistics (2013) National-Statistics-Online, P Griffiths, R Lazarus, S Bowles, S Marr, SDCNSRN Sullivan-Bolyai, T Egan, T Ferguson, T Rapley, Trish Smith, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, V Swallow, Veronica M Swallow, VM Swallow, VM Swallow, VM Swallow   +57 more
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