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Mapping of Children’s Palliative Care Development Globally in 2023 [PDF]

Children
Background: The demand for children’s palliative care is increasingly urgent, with over 21 million children worldwide needing access, yet only 5–10% currently receiving it.
Julia Downing, Lizzie Chambers, Alex Daniels, Julie Ling, Ednin Hamzah, Emmanuel Luyirika, Regina Okhuysen-Cawley, Megan Doherty, Justin N. Baker   +8 more
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Timely Palliative Care: Personalizing the Process of Referral

Cancers, 2022
Simple Summary Timely palliative care is palliative care personalized based on patients’ needs and delivered at the optimal time and setting. It involves a systematic process to identify patients with high supportive care needs and referring these ...
D. Hui, Yvonne Heung, E. Bruera
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Palliative Care Early in the Care Continuum among Patients with Serious Respiratory Illness: An Official ATS/AAHPM/HPNA/SWHPN Policy Statement

American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2022
Background Patients with serious respiratory illness and their caregivers suffer considerable burdens, and palliative care is a fundamental right for anyone who needs it.
D. Sullivan, A. Iyer, Susan Enguídanos, C. Cox, M. Farquhar, D. Janssen, K. Lindell, R. Mularski, N. Smallwood, A. Turnbull, A. Wilkinson, K. Courtright, M. Maddocks, M. McPherson, J. Thornton, M. Campbell, Tracy Fasolino, P. M. Fogelman, Larry Gershon, Thayer Gershon, C. Hartog, Judy Luther, D. Meier, J. Nelson, Elliot C Rabinowitz, C. Rushton, D. Sloan, Erin K Kross, L. Reinke   +28 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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Nurses’ knowledge and attitudes towards palliative care and death: a learning intervention

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background In many countries, nurses are ill-prepared to provide care to patients with terminal illnesses. Limited education and training affect their ability to deliver proper palliative care.
Yanping Hao, Lixuan Zhan, Meiling Huang, Xianying Cui, Ying Zhou, E. Xu   +5 more
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Examining public knowledge, attitudes and perceptions towards palliative care: a mixed method sequential study

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Palliative care is recognised as a public health issue with the need for earlier integration in the wider healthcare system. However, research indicates that it continues to be accessed late in the course of an illness, public understanding of
S. Mcilfatrick, P. Slater, Esther Beck, O. Bamidele, Sharon McCloskey, K. Carr, Deborah H. L. Muldrew, L. Hanna-Trainor, F. Hasson   +8 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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An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background The EAPC White Paper addresses the issue of spiritual care education for all palliative care professionals. It is to guide health care professionals involved in teaching or training of palliative care and spiritual care; stakeholders, leaders ...
M. Best, C. Leget, Andrew Goodhead, Piret Paal   +3 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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