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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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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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Involvement of palliative care in euthanasia practice in a context of legalized euthanasia : a population-based mortality follow-back study [PDF]

, 2017
Background: In the international debate about assisted dying, it is commonly stated that euthanasia is incompatible with palliative care. In Belgium, where euthanasia was legalized in 2002, the Federation for Palliative Care Flanders has endorsed the ...
Chambaere, Kenneth, Cohen, Joachim, Deliens, Luc, Dierickx, Sigrid   +3 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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Barriers to the development of palliative care in Western Europe [PDF]

, 2010
The Eurobarometer Survey of the <i>EAPC Task Force on the Development of Palliative Care in Europe</i> is part of a programme of work to produce comprehensive information on the provision of palliative care across Europe.
A. Giordano, Bercovitch M., C. Centeno, Centeno C., Centeno C., Centeno C., D. Clark, F. Guillén, J. Rocafort, K. Hegedus, L. de Lima, Lynch T., M. Filbet, M. Wright, Martin-Moreno J., O. Belle, Polgar S., Recommendation Rec, Rocafort J., Strauss AL, T. Lynch   +20 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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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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Funding models in palliative care: lessons from international experience [PDF]

, 2017
Background:Funding models influence provision and development of palliative care services. As palliative care integrates into mainstream health care provision, opportunities to develop funding mechanisms arise.
Allan, Simon, Bausewein, Claudia, Cassel, J Brian, Cassel, J. Brian, Csikos, Agnes, Csikós, Ágnes, Eychmueller, Steffen, Furst, Carl Johan, Fürst, Carl Johan, García-Baquero Merino, Teresa, Groeneveld, E Iris, Groeneveld, E. Iris, Hasselaar, Jeroen, Haugen, Dagny Faksvag, Haugen, Dagny Faksvåg, Keller, Heike Gudat, Krajnik, Malgorzata, Merino, Teresa Garcia-Baquero, Merino, Teresa García Baquero, Murtagh, Fliss E. M., Murtagh, Fliss E.M., Murtagh, Fliss EM, Piper, Kym, Ryan, Karen, Swetenham, Kate, Swetenhaml, Kate   +25 more
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