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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Palliative care is recognised as a public health issue with the need for earlier integration in the wider healthcare system. However, research indicates that it continues to be accessed late in the course of an illness, public understanding of
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Redefining Palliative Care—A New Consensus-Based Definition
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2020 Context. The International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care developed a consensus-based definition of palliative care (PC) that focuses on the relief of serious health-related suffering, a concept put forward by the Lancet Commission Global ...
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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Palliative care can be demanding and stressful for providers. There is increasing recognition in the literature of the impact of caregiving in palliative care settings, including compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction. However, to date
M. Baqeas, Jenny Davis, B. Copnell
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Grief During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Considerations for Palliative Care Providers
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic is anticipated to continue spreading widely across the globe throughout 2020. To mitigate the devastating impact of COVID-19, social distancing and visitor restrictions in health care facilities have been widely implemented.
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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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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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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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An EAPC white paper on multi-disciplinary education for spiritual care in palliative care
BMC Palliative Care, 2020 Background The EAPC White Paper addresses the issue of spiritual care education for all palliative care professionals. It is to guide health care professionals involved in teaching or training of palliative care and spiritual care; stakeholders, leaders ...
M. Best +3 more
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The key role of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 tsunami of suffering
The Lancet, 2020 www.thelancet.com Published online April 22, 2020 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30964-8 1 Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has brought a tsunami of suffering that is devastating even well resourced countries.
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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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