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A prospective cohort study assessing aggressive interventions at the end-of-life among patients with solid metastatic cancer

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, Filipinas Bundoc, Isha Chaudhry, Irene Teo, Semra Ozdemir, Eric Finkelstein, on behalf of COMPASS study group   +6 more
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Keep in Touch (KIT): feasibility of using internet-based communication and information technology in palliative care

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients’ sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and family can potentially improve ...
Qiaohong Guo, Beverley Cann, Susan McClement, Genevieve Thompson, Harvey Max Chochinov   +4 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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What are the personal last wishes of people with a life-limiting illness? Findings from a longitudinal observational study in specialist palliative care

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, Wiebke Hollburg, Holger Schulz, Sven Goldbach, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Foertsch, Julia Messerer, Louise König, Frank Schulz-Kindermann, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle   +12 more
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Oncology and Palliative Care [PDF]

Oncology Research and Treatment, 2000
Oncology developed as a discipline over the last decades. Treatment is concentrated on cure or palliation of the illness with the help of chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery. Palliative care has its origin in the hospice movement that started around 1960 in the UK. Centre of care is the patient and his family. Focus of care has moved from quantity to
Bausewein, Claudia, Hartenstein, R.
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Spiritual Care in Palliative Care

Religions, 2023
Palliative care has always included spiritual care, but the provision and inclusion of spiritual care within and across palliative care services internationally is sub-optimal. In this summary overview, we address understandings and meanings of spirituality and related terms, both generally and in the context of healthcare, and outline the importance ...
Megan C. Best, Bella Vivat, Marie-Jose Gijsberts   +2 more
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Development of an international Core Outcome Set (COS) for best care for the dying person: study protocol

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, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen, Agnes van der Heide, Vilma A. Tripodoro, John Ellershaw, Carl Johan Fürst, Raymond Voltz, Stephen Mason, María L. Daud, Gustavo De Simone, Kerstin Kremeike, Svandis Iris Halfdanardottir, Valgerdur Sigurdardottir, Jeremy Johnson, Simon Allan, Haroon Hafeez, Catarina Simões, Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Birgit H. Rasmussen, Paula Williamson, Steffen Eychmüller, in collaboration with the iLIVE consortium   +21 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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Dry mouth in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty: a study protocol for two intervention studies and a nested qualitative sub-study (the Dry mOuth Project, DROP)

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background Despite its prevalent and impactful nature, dry mouth remains an underexposed and undertreated symptom in patients with a life-limiting condition or frailty.
Annelot I. van der Meulen, Evelien P. J. G. Neis, Ellen J. M. de Nijs, Bénédicte J. E. G. Coenegracht, Arianne Stoppelenburg, Marieke H. J. van den Beuken-van Everdingen, Yvette M. van der Linden   +6 more
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Palliative oncology and palliative care

Molecular Oncology, 2022
New therapeutic approaches can produce promising results even in severely ill cancer patients. But they also pose new challenges with respect to prognostication, as patients who were once not eligible for treatment, due to age or comorbidities, now are. Palliative oncology constitutes a major part of oncological care, with life prolongation and quality
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