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End-of-life priorities of older adults with terminal illness and caregivers: A qualitative consultation [PDF]
, 2019 Background As older adults approach the end‐of‐life (EOL), many are faced with complex decisions including whether to use medical advances to prolong life. Limited information exists on the priorities of older adults at the EOL.
Barr, Margo +9 more
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¿Derecho a morir con dignidad?
Biomédica: revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud, 2008 El derecho a morir con dignidad es un concepto vago y que recibe múltiples interpretaciones, muchas de ellas inapropiadas. Se propone la necesidad de que sea el médico quien se haga responsable de proteger los derechos del paciente, de garantizar el uso ...
Álvaro Ruiz
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How do our Dialysis Patients Die?
Revista Portuguesa de Nefrologia e Hipertensão, 2023 Introduction: Elderly patients are the most frequent patients admitted to dialysis units. Relatively little is known about standards on endof-life (EOL) care among dialysis patients.
Ana Farinha +7 more
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, 2016 Purpose: This descriptive study was aimed at identifying the relations among geriatric nurses’ terminal care performance, death anxiety and self-esteem and the factors that affect nurses’ terminal care stress.
W. Kim, H. Cho, Suhye Kwon
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Cancer Management and Research, 2023 Mariam Chichua,1,2 Davide Mazzoni,1 Eleonora Brivio,2 Gabriella Pravettoni1,2 1Department of Oncology and Hemato-Oncology, University of Milan, Milan, 20122, Italy; 2Applied Research Division for Cognitive and Psychological Science, IEO European ...
Chichua M +3 more
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Exploring the Potential Use of Wearable Devices as a Prognostic Tool among Patients in Hospice Care
Medicina, 2022 Background: Smartphones and wearable devices have become a part and parcel of the healthcare industry. The use of wearable technology has already proved its potentials in improving healthcare research, clinical work, and patient care.
Yaoru Huang +5 more
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End of Life Care in Terminal Head and Neck Cancer- An Amalgamated Approach [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022 Oral cancer is among the leading causes of cancer morbidity and mortality worldwide, and palliative care is a critical requirement for cancer patients. It is a multidisciplinary strategy that involves professionals from a variety of medical specialities.
Karthikeya Patil +4 more
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Combining predicate transformer semantics for effects: a case study in parsing regular languages [PDF]
EPTCS 317, 2020, pp. 39-56, 2020 This paper describes how to verify a parser for regular expressions in a functional programming language using predicate transformer semantics for a variety of effects. Where our previous work in this area focused on the semantics for a single effect, parsing requires a combination of effects: non-determinism, general recursion and mutable state ...
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, 2016 The purpose of this study was to understand death perception, spiritual well-being, and terminal care stress in geriatric hospital nurses and analyze related factors affecting terminal care stress.
Jin-hee Yang, S. Shin
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Prognostic value of a modified surprise question designed for use in the emergency department setting [PDF]
Clinical and Experimental Emergency Medicine, 2019 Objective Few reliable and valid prognostic tools are available to help emergency physicians identify patients who might benefit from early palliative approaches.
Samir A. Haydar +3 more
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