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Factors impacting loneliness in patients with serious life-limiting illness in the Emergency Medicine Palliative Care Access (EMPallA) study

BMC Palliative Care
Background Loneliness is a quality-of-life (QoL) concern for patients facing serious, life-limiting illnesses. Discerning risk factors of loneliness in palliative care patients allows providers to take preventative action and develop holistic treatment ...
Brendan Maloney, Mara Flannery, Jason J. Bischof, Kaitlyn Van Allen, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Keith S. Goldfeld, Allison M. Cuthel, Alex Chang, Corita R. Grudzen   +8 more
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Exploring palliative care needs of advanced AIDS patients in China: insights from a descriptive phenomenological study

BMC Palliative Care
Background HIV is still an incurable disease, causing many problems in the daily lives of patients and affecting their overall quality of life. Previous studies have shown that advanced AIDS patients have more serious physical, psychological, social, and
Yan Zeng, Chunrong Lv, Chuntao Wu, Xia Zhao, Lu Zhang, Chunmei Liu, Dan Su, Tongtong Yang, Xi Yan, Bin Wan   +9 more
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The adaptation of clinical practice guideline recommendations regarding family-centered collaborative care of people living with schizophrenia, major depressive disorder, and bipolar mood disorder in the Iranian context: using the resource toolkit for guideline adaptation

BMC Palliative Care
Introduction Chronic mental diseases are enduring and recurring, and need constant care and a collaborative approach for management. Based on clinical guidelines, family interventions can improve the quality of care for individuals with chronic mental ...
Raziye Dehbozorgi, Mohsen Shahriari, Malek Fereidooni-Moghadam, Ebrahim Moghimi-Sarani   +3 more
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Effect of motivational interviewing to promote advance care planning among palliative care patients in ambulatory care setting: a randomized controlled trial

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Background Many patients have mixed feelings about end-of-life care, even when facing life-limiting conditions. Motivational interviewing might be useful for supporting patients in evoking reasons for advance care planning.
Helen Yue-Lai Chan, Doris Yin-Ping Leung, Po-Tin Lam, Polly Po-Shan Ko, Raymond Wai-Man Lam, Kin-Sang Chan   +5 more
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Navigating toward acceptance of death: Home-dwelling patients in the palliative phase

BMC Palliative Care
Background As global life expectancy increases, the need for palliative care grows. Recognizing the deeply personal and diverse nature of individuals’ end-of-life experiences, palliative care for home-dwelling patients requires a flexible and person ...
Katrine Staats, Sandra Jahr Svendsen, Veronica Lockertsen   +2 more
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Survey for Transiting Extrasolar Planets in Stellar Systems. I. Fundamental Parameters of the Open Cluster NGC 1245 [PDF]

, 2003
We derive fundamental parameters for the old, rich, open cluster NGC 1245 using BVI photometry from the MDM 1.3 m and 2.4 m telescopes. Based on detailed isochrone fitting, we find that NGC 1245 has a slightly subsolar metallicity, [Fe/H] = -0.05 ± 0.03 (
C. Burke, B. Gaudi, D. DePoy, R. Pogge, M. Pinsonneault   +4 more
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“The patient as teacher” - thematic analysis of undergraduate medical students’ experiences with an experiential learning project in palliative care

BMC Palliative Care
Background Experiential learning holds high potential for medical students’ education in palliative care. At RWTH Aachen University in Germany, medical students can participate in the course “The Patient as Teacher” offering a one-to-one exchange with a ...
Stephanie Stocklassa, Susan Block, Piret Paal, Frank Elsner   +3 more
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Investigating the relationship between noise and occupation on the status of mental disorders and depression of workers using questionnaire (DASS) and (BAKK) in steel industries

طب کار, 2021
Introduction: In most industrial environments, people are exposed to noise daily. Exposure to this physical hazard can lead to cognitive impairment in individuals.
Hadi Alimoradi, Mahsa Nazari, Rohollah Fallah, Reza Jafari, Mohammad Javad Zare Sakhvidi, Alireza Ajdani   +5 more
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Prescription of essential medication during the final hospitalization of patients with heart failure or cancer

BMC Palliative Care
Background Four medication types—opioids, benzodiazepines, anticholinergics, and antipsychotics—have been proposed as essential for patients in their final days, regardless of their primary diagnosis.
Valentina González-Jaramillo, Monika Hagemann, Lukas Hunziker, Maud Maessen, Steffen Eychmüller   +4 more
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A review of studies on the evaluation of manual handling with different methods in Iran from 1389 to 1399

طب کار, 2021
Introduction: Nowadays, most industries in Iran constitute a large proportion of workerschr('39') activities in Manual Material Handling. Musculoskeletal disorders are areas of erosive and inflammatory conditions that occur in the form of pain and ...
Maryam Ashouri, Shaghayegh Eidani, Ali Salehi Sahlabadi   +2 more
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