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The implementation of guidelines in palliative care – a scoping review [PDF]

BMC Palliative Care
Background Guidelines are essential tools for ensuring high-quality healthcare. However, discrepancies exist between their availability and practical implementation.
Alexandra Ernst, Franziska Schade, Stephanie Stiel, Katharina van Baal, Franziska A. Herbst   +4 more
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Views of patients with advanced disease and their relatives on participation in palliative care research

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Patients with advanced disease may not be invited to participate in research based on the assumption that participation would be too burdensome for them.
Karolina Vlckova, Kristyna Polakova, Anna Tuckova, Adam Houska, Martin Loucka   +4 more
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Consultations’ demand for a hospital palliative care unit: how to increase appropriateness? Implementing and evaluating a multicomponent educational intervention aimed at increase palliative care complexity perception skill

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Planned, multidisciplinary teams’ discussions of cases are common in cancer care, but their impact on patients’ outcome is not always clear. Palliative care (PC) needs might emerge long before the last weeks of life.
Tanzi Silvia, Martucci Gianfranco, Autelitano Cristina, Alquati Sara, Peruselli Carlo, Artioli Giovanna   +5 more
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Specialist palliative care until the very end of life - reports of family caregivers and the multiprofessional team

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Specialist palliative care (SPC) includes care for incurably ill patients and their family caregivers at home or on a palliative care ward until the very end of life.
Anneke Ullrich, Sven Goldbach, Wiebke Hollburg, Bettina Wagener, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Foertsch, Holger Schulz, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle   +10 more
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Structured implementation of the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool in general practice – A prospective interventional study with follow-up

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background General practitioners (GPs) play a key role in the provision of primary palliative care (PC). The identification of patients who might benefit from PC and the timely initiation of patient-centred PC measures at the end of life are essential ...
Kambiz Afshar, Katharina van Baal, Birgitt Wiese, Tanja Schleef, Stephanie Stiel, Gabriele Müller-Mundt, Nils Schneider   +6 more
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Trajectories of Health-related quality of life in patients with Advanced Cancer during the Last Year of Life: findings from the COMPASS study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Patients with advanced cancer prioritise health-related quality of life (HrQoL) in end-of-life care, however an understanding of pre-death HrQoL trajectories is lacking.
Jonathan Lee, Mahham Shafiq, Rahul Malhotra, Semra Ozdemir, Irene Teo, Chetna Malhotra   +5 more
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The use of olanzapine as an antiemetic in palliative medicine: a systematic review of the literature

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Olanzapine is an atypical antipsychotic that has affinity for many central nervous system receptors. Its efficacy is supported by several studies in the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.
G. Saudemont, C. Prod’Homme, A. Da Silva, S. Villet, M. Reich, N. Penel, V. Gamblin   +6 more
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Preferences and end of life care for residents of aged care facilities: a mixed methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Residential aged care facilities is one of the most common places to deliver of end of life care. A lack of evidence regarding preferred place for end of life care for residents of aged care facilities impacts on delivery of care and prevents ...
Moberley Sarah, Hewitt Jacqui, Attia John, Cole Janean, Bevington Joelle, Oldmeadow Christopher, Howard Zach, Hughes Rachel   +7 more
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Associations between informal care costs, care quality, carer rewards, burden and subsequent grief: the international, access, rights and empowerment mortality follow-back study of the last 3 months of life (IARE I study)

BMC Medicine, 2020
Background At the end of life, formal care costs are high. Informal care (IC) costs, and their effects on outcomes, are not known. This study aimed to determine the IC costs for older adults in the last 3 months of life, and their relationships with ...
Irene J. Higginson, Deokhee Yi, Bridget M. Johnston, Karen Ryan, Regina McQuillan, Lucy Selman, Stephen Z. Pantilat, Barbara A. Daveson, R. Sean Morrison, Charles Normand   +9 more
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The Fami-life study: protocol of a prospective observational multicenter mixed study of psychological consequences of grieving relatives in French palliative care units on behalf of the family research in palliative care (F.R.I.P.C research network)

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Grieving relatives can suffer from numerous consequences like anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and prolonged grief.
Maité Garrouste-Orgeas, Cécile Flahault, Edith Poulain, Adrien Evin, Frédéric Guirimand, Virginie Fossez-Diaz, Ségolène Perruchio, Catherine Verlaine, Anne Vanbésien, Willeme Kaczmarek, Laurence Birkui de Francqueville, Emmanuel De Larivière, Guillaume Bouquet, Laure Copel, Virginie Verliac, Véronique Marché, Carmen Mathias, Dominique Gracia, Alaa Mhalla, Véronique Michonneau-Gandon, Cécile Poupardin, Licia Touzet, Gaelle Ranchou, Virginie Guastella, Bruno Richard, Florent Bienfait, Marie Sonrier, Dominique Michel, Stéphane Ruckly, Sébastien Bailly, Jean-François Timsit   +30 more
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