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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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Palliative Care [PDF]

Annals of Internal Medicine, 2012
Palliative care prioritizes symptom management and quality of life throughout the course of serious illness. Regardless of whether care is inpatient or outpatient, primary or subspecialty, a solid understanding of the basics of effective communication, symptom management, and end-of-life care is crucial.
Keith M, Swetz, Arif H, Kamal
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Digitale Palliative Care [PDF]

Praxis, 2021
Zusammenfassung. Palliative Care wird immer digitaler. Der Artikel beleuchtet, wie digitale Ansätze helfen können bei der Identifikation von Patientinnen und Patienten, die für Angebote der Palliative Care qualifizieren und diese in Anspruch nehmen möchten.
Amann, Manuel, Blum, David
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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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Palliative Care

Open Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2023
Palliative care has been developing since the 1960s as a form of caregiving that focuses on the relief of suffering when there is no prospect of a cure or when a patient is at the end of life. Originating in the UK and US, palliative care has been taken up by global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and implemented in various ...
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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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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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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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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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