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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
doaj   +1 more source

Knowledge, attitude and self-efficacy towards palliative care among nurses in Mongolia: A cross-sectional descriptive study

PLoS ONE, 2020
Background Nurses have a primary role in providing palliative and end-of-life (EOL) care. Their knowledge of EOL care, attitudes toward care of the dying, and palliative care self-efficacy are important in care delivery.
Jin Sun Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Delgersuren Gelegjamts   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Erythropoietin modulates hepatic inflammation, glucose homeostasis, and soluble epoxide hydrolase and epoxides in high‐fat diet‐induced obese mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Erythropoietin administration suppresses hepatic soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) expression, leading to increased CYP‐derived epoxides. This is associated with a shift in hepatic macrophage polarization characterized by reduced M1 markers and increased M2 markers, along with reduced hepatic inflammation, suppressed hepatic lipogenesis, and attenuated ...
Takeshi Goda, Satoru Sugimoto, Chiharu Cho, Madoka Konishi, Nozomi Inoue, Satoshi Miyagaki, Yasuhiro Kawabe, Takuro Okamura, Masahide Hamaguchi, Hisakazu Nakajima, Michiaki Fukui, Masakazu Shinohara, Tomoko Iehara   +12 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
doaj   +1 more source

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

Family experiences with palliative care for children at home: a systematic literature review

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background The main goal of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is to improve or maintain the best possible quality of life (QoL) for the child and their family.
Anette Winger, L. G. Kvarme, Borghild Løyland, C. Kristiansen, S. Helseth, I. Ravn   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

UiO‐66 metal–organic frameworks in biomedicine: From structural tunability to bioimaging, photodiagnostics, and photodynamic cancer therapy

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
UiO‐66(Zr) metal–organic frameworks are chemically stable, biocompatible, and highly tunable nanomaterials. Their modular structure enables controlled drug delivery, multimodal bioimaging, and light‐activated photodynamic therapy, supporting integrated diagnostic and therapeutic (theranostic) applications in cancer and biomedical research.
Veronika Huntošová, Grigorii Rakhalskii, Miroslav Almáši   +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

Palliative Care

RGUHS Journal of Medical Sciences, 2011
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openaire   +1 more source

A brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness: Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS)

Palliative Medicine, 2019
Background: Few measures capture the complex symptoms and concerns of those receiving palliative care. Aim: To validate the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale, a measure underpinned by extensive psychometric development, by evaluating its validity,
F. Murtagh, C. Ramsenthaler, Alice M Firth, E. Groeneveld, N. Lovell, S. Simon, Johannes Denzel, Ping Guo, Florian Bernhardt, E. Schildmann, B. van Oorschot, F. Hodiamont, Sabine Streitwieser, I. Higginson, C. Bausewein   +14 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source