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Transition to adult services for children and young people with palliative care needs : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2009
Objective: To evaluate the evidence on the transition process from child to adult services for young people with palliative care needs. Design: Systematic review Setting: Child and adult services and interface between healthcare providers.
Adi, Y., Carter, Yvonne, Doug, Manjo, Kelly, Daniel, Paul, Moli, Petchey, Roland, Williams, Jacky   +6 more
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Prognosis, Communication, and Advance Care Planning in Heart Failure: A Module for Students, Residents, Fellows, and Practicing Clinicians

MedEdPORTAL, 2017
Introduction The increasing prevalence, high symptom burden, and medical advances that often prolong the advanced phase of heart failure mandate an organized and thoughtful approach to medical decision making.
April Zehm, Charlotta Lindvall, Kimberly Parks, Kristen Schaefer, Eva Chittenden   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pediatric Palliative Care [PDF]

Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, 2019
Pediatric palliative care and hospice medicine is a field in which a multidisciplinary team assists in the management and treatment of infants, children, and young adults with a serious condition. A therapeutic relationship is created among the team, patients, and their caregivers to address total pain.
Sarah, Norris, Sheera, Minkowitz, Kathryn, Scharbach   +2 more
openaire   +4 more sources

Adaptation and multicentre validation of a patient-centred outcome scale for people severely ill with COVID (IPOS-COV)

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2023
Background Patient-centred measures to capture symptoms and concerns have rarely been reported in severe COVID. We adapted and tested the measurement properties of the proxy version of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale–IPOS-COV for severe ...
Mevhibe B. Hocaoglu, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, Catherine Walshe, Rachel L. Chambers, Matthew Maddocks, Katherine E. Sleeman, Adejoke O. Oluyase, Lesley Dunleavy, Andy Bradshaw, Sabrina Bajwah, Lorna K. Fraser, Nancy Preston, Irene J. Higginson, the CovPall study team   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospital-hospice partnerships in palliative care: creating a continuum of service [PDF]

, 2001
42 pages.Reports on the cooperation of hospitals with hospices to provide palliative ...
Center to Advance Palliative Care, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (U.S.)   +1 more
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Evidence-based planning and costing palliative care services for children : novel multi-method epidemiological and economic exemplar [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Children’s palliative care is a relatively new clinical specialty. Its nature is multi-dimensional and its delivery necessarily multi-professional.
A Craft, Audit Scotland, C Feudtner, C Knapp, Ciarán Humphreys, D Bainbridge, Department of Health, Department of Health Western Australia, F Finlay, Gareth R Davies, J Noyes, J Noyes, Jane Noyes, K Lowson, K McNamara-Goodger, L Brook, L Fraser, Llinos Haf Spencer, Lucie Hobson, M Doug, Mary Devins, Mary Lewis, NPC, Public Health Wales, R Hain, R Hain, R Hain, R Hain, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Richard Hain, Richard P Hastings, Scottish Children and Young People's Palliative Care Executive Group (SCYPPEx), T Hughes-Hallet, Together for Short Lives, V Sugar, Vasiliki Totsika, Virginia Bennett, World Health Organisation   +37 more
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Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Pediatric, Adolescent, and Young Adult Patients With Osteosarcoma: Local Control Outcomes With Dosimetric Analysis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Osteosarcoma is a radioresistant tumor that may benefit from stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for locoregional control in metastatic/recurrent disease. We report institutional practice patterns, outcomes, toxicity, and failures in osteosarcoma patients treated with SBRT.
Jenna Kocsis, Shauna R. Campbell, Jonathan Jang, Eashwar Somasundaram, Chandana A. Reddy, Jacob G. Scott, Lilyana Angelov, Peter M. Anderson, Matteo Trucco, Zachary Burke, Lukas Nystrom, Nathan Mesko, Anthony Magnelli, Erin S. Murphy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Ethnicity, Older People and Palliative Care [PDF]

, 2012
This report brings together established and developing work on older people, ethnicity and palliative care from PRIAE (Policy Research Institute on Ageing and Ethnicity) and the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC).

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Who Receives Home-Based Perinatal Palliative Care: Experience from Poland [PDF]

, 2013
The current literature suggests that perinatal palliative care (PPC) programs should be comprehensive, initiated early, and integrative. So far there have been very few publications on the subject of home-based PC of newborns and neonates.
Korzeniewska-Eksterowicz, Aleksandra, Kędzierska, Bogna, Młynarski, Wojciech, Przysło, Łukasz, Stolarska, Małgorzata   +4 more
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A Systematic Review of Evidence on the Clinical Effectiveness of Surveillance Imaging in Children With Medulloblastoma and Ependymoma

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd, Melissa Taylor, Helen Fulbright, Bob Phillips   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source