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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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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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Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2018 Sixty percent of cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced stages of disease and those diagnosed in early stages face challenges to receive adequate treatment. Palliative care has had significant developments in recent years in Albania because of a close partnership with the Ministry of Health, local nonprofit organizations, and the Open Society ...
Rudina, Rama +5 more
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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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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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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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Pediatric palliative care [PDF]
Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 2008 The WHO defines pediatric palliative care as the active total care of the child's body, mind and spirit, which also involves giving support to the family. Its purpose is to improve the quality of life of young patients and their families, and in the vast majority of cases the home is the best place to provide such care, but for cultural, affective ...
Trapanotto Manuela +3 more
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Anales de Pediatría (English Edition), 2022 Perinatal Palliative Care is a model of care designed to prevent and treat the physical, spiritual, emotional, and social needs of fetuses and newborn infants with life-threatening or life-limiting conditions. The care extends to the infant's family. It is delivered by an interdisciplinary team to improve the quality of life from the time of diagnosis (
Martin-Ancel, Ana +7 more
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