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Use of high‐flow nasal cannula oxygen therapy for patients with terminal cancer at the end of life

open access: yesCancer 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ethics framework for citizen science and public and patient participation in research

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background Citizen science and models for public participation in health research share normative ideals of participation, inclusion, and public and patient engagement.
B. Groot, T. Abma
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Acknowledging vulnerability in ethics of palliative care – A feminist ethics approach

open access: yesNursing Ethics, 2022
Patients in need of palliative care are often described as vulnerable. Being vulnerable can sometimes be interpreted as the opposite of being autonomous, if an autonomous person is seen as an independent, self-sufficient person who forms decisions ...
Sofia Morberg Jämterud
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The ethics of caring for hospital-dependent patients [PDF]

open access: yesBMC 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
openaire   +3 more sources

Caregivers' role in using a personal electronic health record: a qualitative study of cancer patients and caregivers in Germany

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

The second patient? Family members of cancer patients and their role in end-of-life decision making

open access: yesBMC 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
doaj   +1 more source

Applying systems biology to biomedical research and health care: a précising definition of systems medicine

open access: yesBMC Health Services Research, 2017
Background Systems medicine has become a key word in biomedical research. Although it is often referred to as P4-(predictive, preventive, personalized and participatory)-medicine, it still lacks a clear definition and is open to interpretation.
Sebastian Schleidgen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenomenological Study on the Experience of Male Nurses in Caring for Female Patients

open access: yesJurnal Keperawatan Indonesia, 2021
Nurses provide care equally and do not discriminate between men and women. However, male nurses face challenges and obstacles, especially when they take care of female patients.
Anik Maryunani   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ethical obligations in patient care [PDF]

open access: yesVital, 2008
Fiona Ryan, Monika Cedro, Sona Pabari, Lucy Davenport-Jones and Joseph Noar describe a study they carried out to test clinicians' knowledge and practice of data protection legislation and information management.
Fiona Ryan   +4 more
openaire   +1 more source

Level of Knowledge and Practice of Patient Care Ethics among Nurses in Pokhara

open access: yes, 2018
Ethics deal with standards of conduct and moral judgment. Every day nurses require to make ethical decisions during patient care. They should have good knowledge and adequate practice of ethics to make ethical decisions.
Arati Timilsina, Bhagawati Kc
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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