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Palliative medicine

Haigan, 2019
The chapter underlines the importance of early involvement of the palliative care team to help patients to live better and longer. Palliative care is a multidisciplinary specialty and the role of community and inpatient nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists, and the bereavement, chaplaincy, and medical teams are ...
openaire   +5 more sources

Prevalence of patients with unmet palliative care needs in a University Emergency Department in Germany – a cross-sectional screening study

BMC Palliative Care
Background People with life-limiting diseases can benefit from early integration of palliative care, yet early identification of these patients is challenging.
Kristine Engeleit, Kambiz Afshar, Stephanie Stiel, Nils Schneider, Tanja Schleef, Torben Brod   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of Medical Students’ Knowledge on Palliative Care: A Single Institution Cross-sectional Study

Advances in Medical Education and Practice, 2022
Rafat Mohammed Mosalli,1,2 Ahmed Hafez Mousa,3 Asim Muhammed Alshanberi,3,4 Mohammed A Almatrafi2 1Department of Pediatrics, Batterjee Medical College, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; 2Department of Pediatrics, Um Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia; 3College
Mosalli RM, Mousa AH, Alshanberi AM, Almatrafi MA   +3 more
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Key Topics on End-of-Life Care for African Americans [PDF]

, 2006
Racial classifications of human populations are politically and socially determined. There is no biological or genetic basis for these racial classifications. Health behaviors may be influenced by culture and poverty.
Bernice Harper, Bethsheba Johnson, Camilla Hudson, Diane Deese, Fay Burrs, Gloria Ramsey, Gwendolyn London, Harold Freeman, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Joseph Dancy, Jr., Karla Holloway, Kelvin Calloway, LaVera Crawley, Michelle Grant Ervin, Myra Christopher, Paul Smith, Pernessa Seele, Richard Payne, Robert Washington, Rosalyn Priester, Sharon R. Latson, Skaykh Ibrahim Abdul-Malik, William Johnson, Willie Davis   +23 more
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PARP inhibition and pharmacological ascorbate demonstrate synergy in castration‐resistant prostate cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pharmacologic ascorbate (vitamin C) increases ROS, disrupts cellular metabolism, and induces DNA damage in CRPC cells. These effects sensitize tumors to PARP inhibition, producing synergistic growth suppression with olaparib in vitro and significantly delayed tumor progression in vivo. Pyruvate rescue confirms ROS‐dependent activity.
Nicolas Gordon, Peter T. Gallagher, Orly I. Richter, Neermala Poudel Neupane, Amy C. Mandigo, Jennifer J. McCann, Emanuela Dylgjeri, Irina Vasilevskaya, Christopher McNair, Channing J. Paller, Wm. Kevin Kelly, Karen E. Knudsen, Matthew J. Schiewer, Ayesha A. Shafi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unbearable Pain: India's Obligation to Ensure Palliative Care [PDF]

, 2009
This 102-page report found that many major cancer hospitals in India do not provide patients with morphine, despite the fact that more than 70 percent of their patients are incurable and likely to require pain treatment and palliative care.

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A systematic review and critical appraisal of quality indicators to assess optimal palliative care for older people with dementia [PDF]

, 2019
© The Author(s) 2019Background: A challenge for commissioners and providers of end-of-life care in dementia is to translate recommendations for good or effective care into quality indicators that inform service development and evaluation.
Claire Goodman, Cohen J, De Koning J, Elizabeth L Sampson, Higginson I., Louise Robinson, Murtagh F., Sarah Amador, Volicer L   +8 more
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Tumour–host interactions in Drosophila: mechanisms in the tumour micro‐ and macroenvironment

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
This review examines how tumour–host crosstalk takes place at multiple levels of biological organisation, from local cell competition and immune crosstalk to organism‐wide metabolic and physiological collapse. Here, we integrate findings from Drosophila melanogaster studies that reveal conserved mechanisms through which tumours hijack host systems to ...
José Teles‐Reis, Tor Erik Rusten
wiley   +1 more source

Considering the role of social work in palliative care: reflections from the literature [PDF]

, 2013
Social work is integral to the professional practice of the multidisciplinary palliative care team both in hospice and hospital settings. Alongside nursing, medicine and a range of other clinical and complementary therapists, social work provides ...
Watts, Jacqueline H.
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State of palliative care development in European Countries with and without legally regulated physician-assisted dying. [PDF]

, 2014
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Bernheim, Jan L, Chambaere, Kenneth, Deliens, Luc, Theuns, Peter   +3 more
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