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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, T. Fasolino, P. M. Fogelman, Larry Gershon, T. Gershon, C. Hartog, J. Luther, D. Meier, J. Nelson, Elliot C Rabinowitz, C. Rushton, D. Sloan, Erin K Kross, L. Reinke   +28 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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Decision-making in palliative care: patient and family caregiver concordance and discordance—systematic review and narrative synthesis

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2022
Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and function between patients and family caregivers in palliative care is not well ...
Sophie Mulcahy Symmons, K. Ryan, S. Aoun, L. Selman, A. Davies, N. Cornally, J. Lombard, Regina McQuilllan, S. Guerin, N. O'Leary, M. Connolly, M. Rabbitte, D. Mockler, Geraldine Foley   +13 more
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Palliative care for rural growth and wellbeing: identifying perceived barriers and facilitators in access to palliative care in rural Indiana, USA

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
With the growing aging population and high prevalence of chronic illnesses, there is an increasing demand for palliative care. In the US state of Indiana, an estimated 6.3 million people are living with one or more chronic illnesses, a large proportion ...
N. Lalani, Yun Cai
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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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Patient participation in shared decision-making in palliative care - an integrative review.

Journal of Clinical Nursing, 2021
BACKGROUND Shared decision-making is a process where the decisions regarding patients' care are done in collaboration with the patient, the patient's family and a healthcare professional or an interdisciplinary team.
Lotta Kuosmanen, M. Hupli, S. Ahtiluoto, E. Haavisto   +3 more
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Palliative Care, Version 2.2021

The Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2021
Palliative care has evolved to be an integral part of comprehensive cancer care with the goal of early intervention to improve quality of life and patient outcomes.
M. Dans, J. Kutner, R. Agarwal, J. Baker, J. Bauman, Anna C. Beck, T. Campbell, E. Carey, A. Case, S. Dalal, Danielle J. Doberman, A. Epstein, L. Fecher, Joshua Jones, Jennifer M. Kapo, Richard T. Lee, Elizabeth T. Loggers, Susan L. McCammon, William M Mitchell, Adeboye B. Ogunseitan, D. Portman, K. Ramchandran, L. Sutton, J. Temel, Melissa Teply, Stephanie Terauchi, J. Thomas, A. Walling, F. Zachariah, Mary Anne Bergman, Ndiya Ogba, Mallory Campbell   +31 more
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Palliative care education and its effectiveness: a systematic review.

Public Health, 2021
BACKGROUND Palliative care education (PCE) is an important public health approach to palliative care and is crucial to improving its utilisation. The present study aims to develop a comprehensive understanding of PCE and its effectiveness.
W. Li, J. Chhabra, S. Singh
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Comparison of Palliative Care Delivery in the Last Year of Life Between Adults With Terminal Noncancer Illness or Cancer

JAMA Network Open, 2021
Key Points Question How is palliative care being delivered to patients with noncancer illness (ie, chronic organ failure and dementia), and is it being delivered differently than for patients with cancer?
K. Quinn, P. Wegier, T. Stukel, A. Huang, C. Bell, P. Tanuseputro   +5 more
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