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After you: conversations between patients and healthcare professionals in planning for end of life care

BMC Palliative Care, 2012
Background This study explores with patients, carers and health care professionals if, when and how Advance Care Planning conversations about patients’ preferences for place of care (and death) were facilitated and documented.
Almack Kathryn, Cox Karen, Moghaddam Nima, Pollock Kristian, Seymour Jane   +4 more
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A scoping review of initiatives to reduce inappropriate or non-beneficial hospital admissions and bed days in people nearing the end of their life: much innovation, but limited supporting evidence

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Hospitalisation during the last weeks of life when there is no medical need or desire to be there is distressing and expensive. This study sought palliative care initiatives which may avoid or shorten hospital stay at the end of life and ...
Ros Taylor, Jonathan Ellis, Wei Gao, Liz Searle, Kate Heaps, Robert Davies, Claire Hawksworth, Angela Garcia-Perez, Giles Colclough, Steven Walker, Bee Wee   +10 more
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Prevalence and characteristics of breakthrough cancer pain in an outpatient clinic in a Catalan teaching hospital: incorporation of the Edmonton Classification System for Cancer pain into the diagnostic algorithm

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background Breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) is defined according to its principal characteristics: high intensity, short time interval between onset and peak intensity, short duration, potential recurrence over 24 h and non-responsiveness to standard ...
Jaume Canal-Sotelo, Javier Trujillano-Cabello, Philip Larkin, Núria Arraràs-Torrelles, Ramona González-Rubió, Mariona Rocaspana-Garcia, Eva Barallat-Gimeno   +6 more
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Advance care planning in dementia: recommendations for healthcare professionals

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background Advance care planning (ACP) is a continuous, dynamic process of reflection and dialogue between an individual, those close to them and their healthcare professionals, concerning the individual’s preferences and values concerning future ...
Ruth Piers, Gwenda Albers, Joni Gilissen, Jan De Lepeleire, Jan Steyaert, Wouter Van Mechelen, Els Steeman, Let Dillen, Paul Vanden Berghe, Lieve Van den Block   +9 more
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Role of nurses in medication management at the end of life: a qualitative interview study

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background Patients in the last phase of their lives often use many medications. Physicians tend to lack awareness that reviewing the usefulness of medication at the end of patients’ lives is important.
Bregje A. A. Huisman, Eric C. T. Geijteman, Marianne K. Dees, Noralie N. Schonewille, Margriet Wieles, Lia van Zuylen, Karolina M. Szadek, Agnes van der Heide   +7 more
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Factors associated with suffering from dying in patients with cancer: a cross-sectional analytical study among bereaved caregivers

BMC Palliative Care, 2023
Background In Colombia, cancer incidence is increasing, as is the demand for end-of-life care. Understanding how patients who die from cancer experience this phase will allow the identification of factors associated with greater suffering and actions to ...
Angélica Arango-Gutiérrez, Socorro Moreno, Martín Rondón, Lucía I Arroyo, Liliana Ardila, Fabián Alexander Leal Arenas, José A Calvache, Esther de Vries   +7 more
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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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Risk factors in hostage situations [PDF]

, 2015
The article aims to analyze problems associated with making decision in situations of the terrorist threat. Today, the problem of a risk especially relates to “renegade” situations and similar ones which raise a number of issues related to a risk in ...
Piekarski, M.
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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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2013 Korean Society of Hypertension guidelines for the management of hypertension: part III-hypertension in special situations [PDF]

, 2017
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
The Guideline Committee of the Korean Society of Hypertension, Pyun, Wook Bum, Park, Jeong Bae, Kim, Ju Han, Shin, Jinho, Yang, Dong Heon, Chae, Shung Chull, Kim, Kwang-il, Kim, Young Gweon, Kim, Gheun-Ho   +9 more
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