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Critical and Medical-Surgical Nurses' Adherence to Professional Nursing Code of Ethics and Quality of Nursing Care Satisfaction [PDF]
Egyptian Journal of Health Care, 2023 Background: Nursing code of ethics is an essential part of nursing professional practice. Nurses' adherence to a code of ethics is an important pillar of improving their performance, providing good nursing care and achieving patient satisfaction.
Hana Abass Ahmed Mohamed +5 more
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Frontiers in Medical Technology, 2022 BackgroundInfectious disease in aging adults (≥61 years) often occurs in combination with other health conditions leading to long hospital stays. Detailed studies on infection in aging adults investigating this problem are sparse.AimTo quantify the ...
Anne-Marie De Cock +4 more
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BMC Palliative Care, 2022 Background High-quality end-of-life (EOL) care requires both comfort care and the maintenance of dignity. However, delivering EOL in the emergency department (ED) is often challenging.
Jung Sun Kim +10 more
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The patient-level effect of the cost of Cancer care – financial burden in German Cancer patients
BMC Cancer, 2020 Background Financial toxicity of cancer has so far been discussed primarily in the US health care system and is associated with higher morbidity and mortality.
Katja Mehlis +8 more
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Use of high‐flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy for patients with terminal cancer at the end of life
Cancer Medicine, 2023 Background Few studies have focused on high‐flow nasal cannula (HFNC) usage in the last few weeks of life. The aim of this study was to identify the status of HFNC use in patients with cancer at the end of life and the relevant clinical factors.
Jung Sun Kim +6 more
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Virtue and care ethics & humanism in medical education: a scoping review
BMC Medical Education, 2022 Purpose This scoping review explores how virtue and care ethics are incorporated into health professions education and how these factors may relate to the development of humanistic patient care.
David J. Doukas +5 more
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Ethical Considerations of Using ChatGPT in Health Care
Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2023 ChatGPT has promising applications in health care, but potential ethical issues need to be addressed proactively to prevent harm. ChatGPT presents potential ethical challenges from legal, humanistic, algorithmic, and informational perspectives.
Changyu Wang +5 more
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The ethics of caring for hospital-dependent patients [PDF]
BMC Medical Ethics, 2017 Hospital-dependent patients are individuals who are repeatedly readmitted to the hospital because their acute medical needs cannot be met elsewhere. Unlike the chronically critically ill, these patients do not have a continuous need for life-sustaining equipment and can experience periods of relative stability where they have a good quality of life ...
Calvin Sung, Jennifer L. Herbst
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2020 Background Particularly in the context of severe diseases like cancer, many patients wish to include caregivers in the planning of treatment and care. Many caregivers like to be involved but feel insufficiently enabled.
Aline Weis +9 more
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The second patient? Family members of cancer patients and their role in end-of-life decision making
BMC Palliative Care, 2018 Background Family members are important companions of severely ill patients with cancer. However, studies about the desirability and difficulties of integrating relatives in the decision-making process are rare in oncology.
Katsiaryna Laryionava +5 more
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