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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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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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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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Palliative care and Parkinson's disease : meeting summary and recommendations for clinical research [PDF]
, 2017 Introduction: Palliative care is an approach to caring for patients and families affected by serious illnesses that focuses on the relief of suffering through the management of medical symptoms, psychosocial issues, advance care planning and spiritual ...
Bekelman, David +17 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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Identifying systems barriers that may prevent bereavement service access to bereaved carers: A report from an Australian specialist palliative care service [PDF]
, 2018 Background: Bereavement follow up is an integral element of palliative care. However, little is known about the systems that link bereavement services with bereaved carers.
Currow, David +4 more
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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 +6 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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