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Advance care planning and the older patient [PDF]

QJM, 2011
Making treatment decisions for older people is difficult, because of the complex interplay of their multiple co-morbidities, but also because of the fine balance of risks vs. benefit in any chosen management plan. This becomes even more difficult when they lose the capacity to tell us what they want, and often in such situations we have to rely on ...
Aw, D, Hayhoe, B, Smajdor, A, Bowker, L K, Conroy, S P, Myint, P K   +5 more
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Involvement of Specialist Palliative Care in a Stroke Unit in Austria—Challenges for Families and Stroke Teams

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Purpose: Severe stroke poses vast challenges. Appropriate goals of care according to individual preferences and values have to be developed under time restrictions—often impeded by limited ability to communicate and the need for decisions by surrogates ...
Renate Riesinger, Klaus Altmann, Stefan Lorenzl, Stefan Lorenzl, Stefan Lorenzl   +4 more
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Assessing patients’ experience of integrated care: a survey of patient views in the North West London Integrated Care Pilot

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2014
Introduction: Despite the importance of continuity of care and patient engagement, few studies have captured patients’ views on integrated care. This study assesses patient experience in the Integrated Care Pilot in North West London with the aim to help
Nikolaos Mastellos, Laura Gunn, Matthew Harris, Azeem Majeed, Josip Car, Yannis Pappas   +5 more
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Advance care planning in adults with oral cancer: Multi‐institutional cross‐sectional study

Laryngoscope Investigative Otolaryngology, 2021
Purpose Patients undergoing head and neck surgery are often elderly and frail with significant comorbidities. Discussion and documentation of what patients would desire for end‐of‐life care and decision‐making is, therefore, essential for delivering ...
David Forner, Daniel J. Lee, Rajan Grewal, Jenna MacDonald, Christopher W. Noel, S. Mark Taylor, David P. Goldstein   +6 more
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Caspian nursing process: Impactions on new-onset constipations in admission, discharge, and follow-up of acute stroke patients

Iranian Journal of Nursing and Midwifery Research, 2022
Background: Structural planning is essential for the management of constipation in stroke patients. The current study aims to determine the impact of a care plan on the frequency of new-onset constipation following stroke.
Shayan Alijanpour, Nasrollah Alimohamadi, Soraya Khafri, Mostafa Akbarian Rokni, Fariborz Khorvash   +4 more
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People with Multiple Long-Term Health Problems: Personalized Care Planning

Portuguese Journal of Public Health, 2023
Background: The personalized care planning is a collaborative process used in managing long-term health conditions when the person and health professionals identify and discuss problems caused by or related to the health condition and develop a plan to ...
Edgar Canais, Lucília Nunes
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The Capital Investment Strategy for Radiation therapy in Ontario: A Framework to Ensure Access to Radiation Therapy

Advances in Radiation Oncology, 2020
Purpose: Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario), formerly known as CCO, is the provincial governmental agency in Ontario, Canada responsible for developing radiation therapy-specific capital investment strategies, updated every 5 years, to ensure equitable
Rachel M. Glicksman, MD, MSc, Audrey Wong, BSc, MPH, Jonathan Wang, BASc, MASc, Lisa Favell, BA, MBA, Garth Matheson, BComm, MBA, Michael Brundage, MD, FRCPC, Julie Renaud, MRT(T), Kyle Malkoske, PhD, Joanne MacPhail, Derek Finnerty, BA, Sophie Foxcroft, MRT(T), MHSc, Eric Gutierrez, MRT(T), CMD, Padraig Warde, MBChB BAO, FRCPC   +12 more
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Reproducibility of Digital Planning in Cementless Total Hip Arthroplasty Among Experienced and Novice Surgeons

Revista Brasileira de Ortopedia, 2023
Objective The present study aims to assess the reproducibility of digital planning for cementless total hip arthroplasty (THA) among surgeons with different levels of experience.
Marcelo Zerbetto Fabricio, Bruno Alves Rudelli, Helder de Souza Miyahara, Leandro Ejnisman, Henrique de Melo Campos Gurgel, Alberto Tesconi Croci   +5 more
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Implementation fidelity of a strategy to integrate service delivery: learnings from a transitional care program for individuals with complex needs in Singapore

BMC Health Services Research, 2019
Background To cope with rising demand for healthcare services in Singapore, Regional Health Systems (RHS) comprising of health and social care providers across care settings were set up to integrate service delivery.
Milawaty Nurjono, Pami Shrestha, Ian Yi Han Ang, Farah Shiraz, Joanne Su-Yin Yoong, Sue-Anne Ee Shiow Toh, Hubertus Johannes Maria Vrijhoef   +6 more
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Questionnaire survey of angiogenesis inhibitor-related oral complications based on a nation-wide study in Japan

Journal of Dental Sciences, 2021
Background/purpose: The prevalence of oral adverse events and dental treatments related complications during the molecular targeted drugs therapy remains unclear.
Shin-ichi Yamada, Hiroshi Kurita, Akira Tanaka, Masaru Miyata, Yoshinari Morimoto, Akira Yamaguchi, Souichi Yanamoto, Hiromasa Yoshikawa, Yutaka Imai   +8 more
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