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Palliative care stay room – designing, testing and evaluating a gamified social intervention to enhance palliative care awareness

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Introduction The message of palliative care can be promoted using creative thinking and gamification. It can be an innovative strategy to promote changes in behaviour, promote thinking, and work on skills such as empathy.
Carla Reigada, Anna Sandgren, Sonia Rivas, Ana Carvajal, Santiago Hermida-Romero, Edgar Benítez, Guillem Ripoll, Inés Olza, Carlos Centeno, Beatriz Gómez   +9 more
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Accuracy of clinical predictions of prognosis at the end-of-life: evidence from routinely collected data in urgent care records

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background The accuracy of prognostication has important implications for patients, families, and health services since it may be linked to clinical decision-making, patient experience and outcomes and resource allocation.
M. Orlovic, J. Droney, V. Vickerstaff, J. Rosling, A. Bearne, M. Powell, J. Riley, P. McFarlane, J. Koffman, P. Stone   +9 more
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Impact of palliative chemotherapy and best supportive care on overall survival and length of hospitalization in patients with incurable Cancer: a 4-year single institution experience in Japan

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background This study aimed to analyze the determinants of patients’ choice between palliative chemotherapy and best supportive care (BSC) and to investigate how this choice affects overall survival (OS) and length of hospitalization according to Eastern
Yasuko Murakawa, Masato Sakayori, Kazunori Otsuka   +2 more
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Investigation of the Relationship between Biorhythms and Occupational Accidents Severity in a Chemical Industry, 2009-2022 [PDF]

طب کار, 2023
Introduction: Occupational accidents have several life and financial consequences in industries. Among the causes of accidents, human error and unsafe behavior are known as the most important factors.
Gholamhossein Halvani, Abbas Soleimani, Ali Sadri Esfahani, Afarin Akhavan, Morteza Mortazavi, Mahdi Jafari Nodoushan   +5 more
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Who provides care in the last year of life? A description of care networks of community-dwelling older adults in the Netherlands

BMC Palliative Care, 2019
Background Home-based care networks differ in size and composition, but little is known about the characteristics of care networks for those nearing the end of their lives.
Femmy M. Bijnsdorp, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Anneke L. Francke, Natalie Evans, Carel F. W. Peeters, Marjolein I. Broese van Groenou   +5 more
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Investigating the impact of ergonomics training in reducing musculoskeletal discomfort among office workers [PDF]

طب کار, 2023
Introduction: Office workers, regardless of educational principles, may be exposed to musculoskeletal injuries due to the nature of their work. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of ergonomics training in reducing ...
ali mohamad abbasi, sara bahmanipour, mina rahimi, zahra rashidi, hojjat sayyadi   +4 more
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Competency Framework of “Inter-professional values and professionalism” in occupational health team [PDF]

طب کار, 2023
Introduction: The present study aimed to develop the framework of inter-professional values and professionalism competencies in occupational health services.
Fatemeh Keshmiri, Amir Houshang Mehrparvar   +1 more
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Stories of paediatric palliative care: a qualitative study exploring health care professionals’ understanding of the concept

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background By sharing patient stories, health care professionals (HCPs) may communicate their attitudes, values and beliefs about caring and treatment.
Kirsti Riiser, Heidi Holmen, Anette Winger, Simen A. Steindal, Charlotte Castor, Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme, Anja Lee, Vibeke Bruun Lorentsen, Nina Misvaer, Elena Albertini Früh   +9 more
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Health service utilisation during the last year of life: a prospective, longitudinal study of the pathways of patients with chronic kidney disease stages 3-5

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a growing global problem affecting around 10% of many countries’ populations. Providing appropriate palliative care services (PCS) to those with advanced kidney disease is becoming paramount.
Shirley Chambers, Helen Healy, Wendy E. Hoy, Adrian Kark, Sharad Ratanjee, Geoffrey Mitchell, Carol Douglas, Patsy Yates, Ann Bonner   +8 more
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Engaging patients and families to create a feasible clinical trial integrating palliative and heart failure care: results of the ENABLE CHF-PC pilot clinical trial

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Early palliative care (EPC) is recommended but rarely integrated with advanced heart failure (HF) care. We engaged patients and family caregivers to study the feasibility and site differences in a two-site EPC trial, ENABLE CHF-PC (Educate ...
Marie Bakitas, J. Nicholas Dionne-Odom, Salpy V. Pamboukian, Jose Tallaj, Elizabeth Kvale, Keith M. Swetz, Jennifer Frost, Rachel Wells, Andres Azuero, Konda Keebler, Imatullah Akyar, Deborah Ejem, Karen Steinhauser, Tasha Smith, Raegan Durant, Alan T. Kono   +15 more
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