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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Whither Palliative Care?

Current Oncology, 2019
Palliative care (pc) has evolved from a field of medicine devoted exclusively to end-of-life care into one that focuses on symptom management and quality of life throughout terminal illness.[...]
Watt, C.L., Downar, J.
openaire   +2 more sources

Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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Effects of the Fluid Replacement Method During Online Hemodiafiltration on the Solute Removal Performance and Biocompatibility Using the Asymmetric Cellulose Triacetate Membrane

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pre‐dilution online hemodiafiltration (Pre‐HDF) is predominantly used in Japan, whereas post‐dilution online HDF (Post‐HDF) is more common in Europe. An asymmetric cellulose triacetate (ATA) membrane may improve biocompatibility.
Kenji Sakurai, Yoshitaka Kurihara, Fumi Yamauchi, Hiromi Hosoya, Takeshi Saito   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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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
doaj   +1 more source

Mapping the evolution of mitochondrial complex I through structural variation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Respiratory complex I (CI) is crucial for bioenergetic metabolism in many prokaryotes and eukaryotes. It is composed of a conserved set of core subunits and additional accessory subunits that vary depending on the organism. Here, we categorize CI subunits from available structures to map the evolution of CI across eukaryotes. Respiratory complex I (CI)
Dong‐Woo Shin, Tingting Chen, James A. Letts   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source