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Need for additional professional psychosocial and spiritual support in patients with advanced diseases in the course of specialist palliative care – a longitudinal observational study

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background We investigated the need for additional professional support and associated factors in patients (pts) at initiation and in the course of in- and outpatient specialist palliative care (I-SPC/O-SPC).
Anneke Ullrich, Holger Schulz, Sven Goldbach, Wiebke Hollburg, Annette Rommel, Marten Müller, Denise Kirsch, Katrin Kopplin-Förtsch, Julia Messerer, Louise König, Frank Schulz-Kindermann, Carsten Bokemeyer, Karin Oechsle   +12 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman, Tadi Hondonga, Alison Berry, Caitlin Elgarten, Jason Freedman, Katelyn Oranges, Sara McDonough, Caroline Diorio, L. Lee Dupuis   +8 more
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Palliative Care

RGUHS Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nursing informatics competency and its associated factors among palliative care nurses: an online survey in mainland China

BMC Nursing
Background Nursing informatics (NI) competency is a required core competency for high-quality care in digitally enabled healthcare environments. Given the increasing reliance on digital health in palliative care settings, it becomes crucial to evaluate ...
Junchen Guo, Junqingzhao Liu, Chaoyi Liu, Ying Wang, Xianghua Xu, Yongyi Chen   +5 more
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Midazolam sedation in palliative medicine: retrospective study in a French center for cancer control

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background French legislation about sedation in palliative medicine evolved in 2016 with the introduction of a right to deep and continuous sedation, maintained until death.
Vincent Gamblin, Vincent Berry, Emmanuelle Tresch-Bruneel, Michel Reich, Arlette Da Silva, Stéphanie Villet, Nicolas Penel, Chloé Prod’Homme   +7 more
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The pattern of change in opioid and adjuvant prescriptions for cancer pain before and after referral to a comprehensive program in the Palliative Care Center in Kuwait

BMC Palliative Care, 2021
Background Cancer-related pain is a complicated symptom that often coincides with fatigue, depression, and anxiety. Although many safe treatments are available, inadequate control of Cancer-related pain continues to lead to suffering in cancer patients ...
Ameena Mohammed Al-Ansari, Wafaa Mostafa Abd-El-Gawad, Sobhi Mostafa AboSerea, Eman El Sayed ElShereafy, Fatma Abdel Shakor Ali, Mohammed Abd Elaziz ElSayed   +5 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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“From good hearted community members we get volunteers” – an exploratory study of palliative care volunteers across Africa

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Volunteers play a significant role in supporting hospice and palliative care in Africa, but little is known about the types of volunteers, their motivations and roles in service delivery.
Carolin Clara Loth, Eve Namisango, Richard Antony Powell, Katharina Henny Pabst, Mhoira Leng, Mohamed Hamada, Lukas Radbruch   +6 more
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Conceptualising effective symptom management in palliative care: a novel model derived from qualitative data

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background Pain, breathlessness and fatigue are some of the most challenging symptoms to manage in patients with advanced disease. Specialist palliative care leads to better symptom management, but factors contributing to successful symptom management in
Emma J. Chapman, Simon Pini, Zoe Edwards, Yousuf Elmokhallalati, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, Michael I. Bennett   +5 more
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