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Effects of spiritual care training for palliative care professionals [PDF]

, 2005
Little is known about the effects of spiritual care training for professionals in palliative medicine. We therefore investigated prospectively the effects of such training over a six-month period.
Borasio, Gian Domenico, Maria Wasner, Gian Domenico Borasio, Information For, Christine Longaker, Longaker, Christine, Martin Johannes Fegg, Wasner, Maria, Fegg, Martin Johannes   +8 more
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Functional goals and outcomes of rehabilitation within palliative care: a multicentre prospective cohort study

BMC Palliative Care
Background Rehabilitation is an integral component of palliative care. An understanding of functional goals can help tailor interventions and support the evaluation of services.
Matthew Maddocks, Lucy Fettes, Naomi Takemura, Joanne Bayly, Helena Talbot-Rice, Karen Turner, Rebecca Tiberini, Richard Harding, Fliss E.M. Murtagh, Richard J. Siegert, Irene J. Higginson, Stephen A. Ashford, Lynne Turner-Stokes   +12 more
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Identifying aspects of palliative and end-of-life care that are most important to people with lived experience and can be measured using routine data: a series of patient and public involvement workshops

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Background We aimed to identify which aspects of palliative and end-of-life care are most important to people with lived experience of life-limiting conditions and can be measured using routine data currently available in the UK.
Lesley E. Williamson, Georgina Macdonald, Joanna M. Davies, Rashmi Kumar, Margaret Ogden, Kamil Sterniczuk, Samina Begum, Mina Tanna, Peter May, Lorna K. Fraser, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, Irene J. Higginson, Katherine E. Sleeman   +12 more
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Palliative Care [PDF]

Surgical Clinics of North America, 2019
Timothy J, Brown, Thomas J, Smith, Arjun, Gupta   +2 more
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The individual context, and met and unmet palliative care needs of stage III and IV HIV/AIDS isiXhosa speaking patients in the Grahamstown hospice service [PDF]

, 2011
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 87-102).Palliative care developed as a response to the specific needs experienced by terminally ill cancer patients and their families.
Matthews, Barbara
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Program - 2019 Palliative Care Institute Conference: Palliative Care: Treating the Whole Person [PDF]

, 2019
Speakers and workshops addressing the interdisciplinary nature of palliative care, and the importance of addressing the totality of the patient’s relational existence—physical, psychological, cultural, social, and ...
Palliative Care Institute
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Role Delineation Framework for Adult Palliative Care Services

Palliative care is an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification and impeccable ...
Ryan, Karen, National Clinical Programme for Palliative Care   +1 more
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Motivations and experiences of patients with respiratory disease and their caregivers in a multinational trial of mirtazapine for severe breathlessness: a qualitative study (BETTER-B)

BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Background Drug repurposing offers advantages over traditional drug development, such as shorter time and reduced costs. Understanding patient and caregiver perspectives on repurposed medicines is crucial to improving clinical trial design and conduct ...
Adejoke O. Oluyase, Luca Ghirotto, Harry Watson, Massimo Costantini, Sabrina Bajwah, Charles Normand, Silvia Tanzi, Jeremias Bazata, Karen Ryan, Elena Turola, Irene J. Higginson, Matthew Maddocks, On behalf of the BETTER-B consortium   +12 more
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Voluntary Assisted Dying and Community Palliative Care: A Retrospective Study in Victoria, Australia

Nursing Reports
Background/Objectives: Voluntary Assisted Dying in Australia was first legislated in 2019, with significant concern expressed by palliative care services about the impact on services.
Robert Molenaar, Susan Lee, Jodi Lynch, Kelly Rogerson   +3 more
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Palliative care for cancer

Applied Sciences Research Periodicals
There are various studies on the anticancer effect of linoleic acid which also has soothing and hydrating effects. My idea is to create a substance with the right proportions of linoleic acid and biokeratin extracted from chicken feathers. In particular, to dissolve a right percentage of biokeratin in linoleic acid and create a substance to be oxidized
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