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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 +4 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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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2020 Importance The evidence for palliative care exists predominantly for patients with cancer. The effect of palliative care on important end-of-life outcomes in patients with noncancer illness is unclear.
K. Quinn +11 more
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Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020 Advanced cancer, with its considerable physical symptoms and psychosocial burdens, represents an existential threat and major stressor to patients and their caregivers. In response to such stress, patients and their caregivers use a variety of strategies
J. Greer +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Pediatric gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine neoplasms (GEP‐NENs) are extremely rare and clinically heterogeneous. Management has largely been extrapolated from adult practice. This European Standard Clinical Practice Guideline (ESCP), developed by the EXPeRT network in collaboration with adult NEN experts, provides (adult) evidence ...
Michaela Kuhlen +23 more
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Quality of palliative care in identified palliative care beds
International Journal of Palliative Nursing, 2020 Background: Dedicated identified palliative care beds (IPCB) are unique to France. Aims: This study aimed to assess their use and advantages in a medical oncology department of a private provincial hospital. Findings: Of the last 100 patients who died in the medical oncology department, 57 had an IPCB.
Viel, Erika +6 more
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Integrating palliative surgery and palliative care
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2022 We report a challenging patient journey at a rural New Zealand hospital affiliated with a hospice programme. This case illustrates the complexities and rewards of achieving a valuable and sensible collaboration among various teams to ensure the best possible outcome for surgical patients receiving palliative care.
Amanda Charity Sommerfeldt +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker +11 more
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BMC Palliative CareBackground Fewer than 1 in 20 people on the African continent in need of palliative care receive it. Malawi is a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa that has yet to achieve advanced palliative care integration accompanied by unrestricted access to ...
Fatia Kiyange +8 more
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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 +12 more
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