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 +6 more
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Medical students writing on death, dying and palliative care : a qualitative analysis of reflective essays [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Medical students and doctors are becoming better prepared to care for patients with palliative care needs and support patients at the end of life. This preparation needs to start at medical school.
Boland, Jason W +3 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background Many patients with a solid metastatic cancer are treated aggressively during their last month of life. Using data from a large prospective cohort study of patients with an advanced cancer, we aimed to assess the number and predictors of ...
Chetna Malhotra +6 more
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A critical literature review exploring the challenges of delivering effective palliative care to older people with dementia in the acute hospital setting [PDF]
, 2008 Aim. This paper considers the challenges of delivering effective palliative care to older people with dementia and the possible strategies to overcome barriers to endof-life care in these patients. Background.
Birch, Deborah, Draper, Janet
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background Personal last wishes of people facing a life-limiting illness may change closer to death and may vary across different forms of specialist palliative care (SPC).
Anneke Ullrich +12 more
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Health care professionals' perceptions towards lifelong learning in palliative care for general practitioners: a focus group study [PDF]
, 2014 Background: There is a growing need for palliative care. The majority of palliative patients prefer their general practitioner (GP) to organize their palliative home care. General practitioners need a range of competences to perform this task.
Deveugele, Myriam +5 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 +25 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 +7 more
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Coverage and development of specialist palliative care services across the World Health Organization European region (2005-2012): results from a European association for palliative care task force survey of 53 countries [PDF]
, 2015 Background: The evolution of the provision of palliative care specialised services is important for planning and evaluation. Aim: To examine the development between 2005 and 2012 of three specialised palliative care services across the World Health ...
Carrasco, José Miguel +5 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2020 Background In contrast to typical measures employed to assess outcomes in healthcare such as mortality or recovery rates, it is difficult to define which specific outcomes of care are the most important in caring for dying individuals.
Sofia C. Zambrano +21 more
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