Nordic Specialist Course in Palliative Medicine: Evaluation and Impact on the Development of Palliative Medicine in the Nordic Countries: A Survey among Participants from Seven Courses 2003-2017 [PDF]
Background: The five Nordic Associations for palliative medicine (PM) have since 2003 organized a common specialist course for six weeks in two years.
Edenbrandt Carl-Magnus +5 more
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Oncology and palliative care [PDF]
Oncology developed as a discipline over the last decades. Treatment is concentrated on cure or palliation of the illness with the help of chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery.
Bausewein, Claudia +3 more
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Dying with Dignity : Is This a Universal Concept? [PDF]
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Varsou, Ourania
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Effects of spiritual care training for palliative care professionals [PDF]
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 +8 more
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Introduction:Hospitals of greater complexity tend to care for patients with advanced chronic diseases, which is why it is important to recognize the need for palliative care.
Annie Velasquez-Manrique +6 more
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Haematology and palliative medicine: moving forward [PDF]
The documentation of details on the provision of medical care for haematology patients in the palliative care setting not only provides useful baseline information for clinical consideration and debate, but signals that the scholarship in this area has ...
McGrath, Pamela
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Recommendations on palliative care aspects in intensive care medicine
Background The timely integration of palliative care is important for patients suffering from various advanced diseases with limited prognosis. While a German S-3-guideline on palliative care exists for patients with incurable cancer, a recommendation ...
Guido Michels +3 more
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Study protocol: Delayed intervention randomised controlled trial within the Medical Research Council (MRC) Framework to assess the effectiveness of a new palliative care service [PDF]
Background: Palliative care has been proposed to help meet the needs of patients who suffer progressive non-cancer conditions but there have been few evaluations of service development initiatives.
Polly Edmonds +22 more
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Effective communication with ill patients requires practice, yet, the traditional history overlooks patients' personal stories. This information is vital to determining goals of care and facilitates partnership by building trust.We implemented a ...
Jenny Drice +13 more
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PALLIATIVE MEDICINE AS A KEY ELEMENT OF THE UKRAINIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM REFORMING
The article describes the results of the analysis of national and international scientific literature, legal acts, statistical data, which define the relevance and the way the system of palliative care in Ukraine.
С. В. Лінніков
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