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Palliative care services in Australia 2013 [PDF]

, 2013
This report provides detailed information on the national response to the palliative care needs of Australians. Summary This report on Australian palliative care services is the second in this series.

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Palliative care services in Australia 2014 [PDF]

, 2014
This is the third in a planned series of annual reports providing a detailed picture of the national response to the palliative care needs of Australians. Summary This report on Australian palliative care services is the third in this series.

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Adapting the Serious Illness Conversation communication training workshop from the Western to an Asian context in Singapore

BMC Medical Education
Background/objectives The Serious Illness Care Program (SICP) was developed in the United States and consists of three main componentsthe–Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG), Serious Illness Conversation (SIC) communication training, and quality ...
Gillian Li Gek Phua, Radhika Das, Anna So Youn Lee, Annushkha Sharanya Sinnathamby, Prabavathi D/O Balachandran, Swee Noi Tang, Alethea Chung Pheng Yee, Shirlyn Hui-Shan Neo   +7 more
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Communication in the face of death and dying - how does the encounter with death influence the patient management competence of medical students? An outcome-evaluation

BMC Medical Education, 2022
Background information As part of an elective course, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Palliative Medicine at Duesseldorf University Hospital offers medical students the opportunity to personally meet and talk to a seriously ill patient on one or more ...
T. Thyson, M. Schallenburger, A. Scherg, A. Leister, J. Schwartz, M. Neukirchen   +5 more
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Prognostic awareness and its association with health outcomes in the last year of life

Cancer Medicine, 2023
Background Little research has examined changes in prognostic awareness (PA) in the last year of life and the extent PA change was associated with anxiety, depression, and spiritual well‐being among metastatic cancer patients.
Semra Ozdemir, Isha Chaudhry, Sean Ng, Irene Teo, Chetna Malhotra, Eric Andrew Finkelstein, COMPASS Study Group   +6 more
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Palliative care national plan implementation through stakeholder analysis

Background: National palliative care plans depend upon stakeholder engagement to succeed. Assessing the capability, interest, and knowledge of stakeholders is a crucial step in the implementation of public health initiatives, as recommended by the World ...
Milena Buitrago Florian P, María Vargas-Escobar L, Ximena León-Delgado M, Elizabeth Muñoz Medina S, Andrade Fonseca D, Esteban Correa-Morales J., Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas M   +6 more
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Bereavement care in palliative care in Ireland [PDF]

, 2015
Poster presented at the Irish Association for Palliative Care conference February 5 2015. Abstract; Bereavement care is an explicit aspect of holistic palliative1. Public health models 2,3 or graduated models of support 4 are increasingly recommended. We
Keegan, Orla, Monroe, Barbara, Lacaste Reverte, Maria Antonia, Gulden, Mai -Britt, Murphy, Irene, Benkel, Inger   +5 more
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Multicomponent Interventions for Adults With Cancer Cachexia: A Systematic Review

Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Background Cancer cachexia has substantial impacts on people's quality of life. There is no current gold standard treatment, but the complex pathophysiology of cachexia suggests that a multitargeted and individualised treatment approach is needed.
Megan Bowers, Carmine Petrasso, Amy McLuskie, Joanne Bayly, Barry J. A. Laird, Irene J. Higginson, Matthew Maddocks   +6 more
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A National Quality Initiative to Improve Palliative Care Outcomes: Identifying Enabling Factors that Drive Quality Improvement

Palliative Medicine Reports
Background: The Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration (PCOC), established in 2005 and funded by the Australian Government, is a national quality improvement initiative that integrates patient outcome measures into routine clinical practice.
Sabina Clapham, Katherine Clark, Kylie Draper, Fiorina Mastroianni, Jesse Rand, Lisa Redwood, David Currow   +6 more
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Translation and cultural adaptation of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale including cognitive interviewing with patients and staff

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background To expand our clinical and scientific knowledge about holistic outcomes within palliative care, there is a need for agreed-upon patient-reported outcome measures.
Ingela Beck, Ulrika Olsson Möller, Marlene Malmström, Anna Klarare, Henrik Samuelsson, Carina Lundh Hagelin, Birgit Rasmussen, Carl Johan Fürst   +7 more
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