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“I couldn’t say goodbye”: Thematic analysis of interviews with bereaved relatives who lost their loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic

BMC Palliative Care
Background Delivering serious news is usually challenging for healthcare professionals and the pandemic of COVID-19 and related restrictions brought additional challenges in this process.
Karolina Vlckova, Kristyna Polakova, Adam Houska, Marketa Zindulkova, Martin Loucka   +4 more
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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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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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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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The evolution of palliative care [PDF]

Patient Education and Counseling, 2000
An encounter with one patient in 1948 was the catalyst for the Hospice Movement. The challenge to undertake appropriate pain and symptom control together with experience in further listening to patients in the small number of homes especially planned for dying people, finally came together during the 1960s as the impetus for the first modern hospice ...
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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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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
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Primary care palliative and supportive care services: Experiences and perceptions of patients with advanced progressive disease and their informal carers [PDF]

Palliative care can be defined as the active, holistic care of patients with advanced progressive illness, and incorporates symptom management with psychological, social and spiri-tual care (WHO, 1990).
Hardy, Beth
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Identification of Dutch hospital inpatients with possible palliative care needs: a nation-wide flash mob study

BMC Palliative Care
Background Identifying hospital inpatients who are approaching the end of life is essential for providing optimal palliative care. The study aims to determine the prevalence of hospital inpatients with a potentially limited life expectancy (
Annette WG van der Velden, Albert H de Heij, Marieke HJ van den Beuken, Evelien JM Kuip, Ginette M Hesselmann, Ellen JM de Nijs, Bregje AA Huisman, Astrid W Oosten, Anna KL Reyners, Pauline de Graeff   +9 more
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Perspectives of telemedicine-based services among family caregivers of patients with end-of-life cancer: a qualitative study in mainland China

BMC Palliative Care
Background Despite being driven by a strong sense of duty and familial obligation, providing care for patients nearing the end of life poses challenges for family caregivers.
Junchen Guo, Xianghua Xu, Chaoyi Liu, Ying Wang, Yongyi Chen   +4 more
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