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Evidence on the Cost and Cost-effectiveness of Palliative Care: A Literature Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
In the context of limited resources, evidence on costs and cost-effectiveness of alternative methods of delivering health-care services is increasingly important to facilitate appropriate resource allocation.
Aoife Brick   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Knowledge and Attitude toward Hospice Palliative Care among Community-Dwelling Aged Taiwanese—Analysis of Related Factors

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gerontology, 2012
Background: This study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitude toward hospice palliative care (HPC) among the elderly, defined as 65 years of age and older, living in the metropolitan area of Taiwan.
Ching-Ping Hsu   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Terminal care. Home terminal care.

open access: yesNihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi, 1996
在宅ターミナルケアは家族の負担はあるものの患者にとっては贅沢な医療である.現在の日本で在宅医療を行うには,まだまだ多くの問題がある.しかしながら,患者,家族がそれを望む以上,医療者も行政もそれに応えるシステムをつくる時期にきていることも事実である.在宅ターミナルケアでは患者のみならず家族の身体的・精神的ケア,インフォームドコンセント,また臨死期の対応など多くの課題を抱えている.本稿ではそれらについて考察した.
openaire   +2 more sources

Hospice Malta [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Hospice Malta is a voluntary organisation inspired by Christian values. It exists to provide and promote the highest standards of palliative care for persons with cancer, motor neurone disease and other terminal disease.
Zammit, Anna
core  

End-of-life care and dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
In the UK, research continues to confirm that people with certain chronic illnesses, such as chronic lung disease and cardiac failure, represent the ‘disadvantaged dying’ compared to those with terminal cancer.
Ballard, Clive   +5 more
core   +1 more source

The cytoskeletal control of B cell receptor and integrin signaling in normal B cells and chronic lymphocytic leukemia

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
In lymphoid organs, antigen recognition and B cell receptor signaling rely on integrins and the cytoskeleton. Integrins act as mechanoreceptors, couple B cell receptor activation to cytoskeletal remodeling, and support immune synapse formation as well as antigen extraction.
Abhishek Pethe, Tanja Nicole Hartmann
wiley   +1 more source

How different is the care of terminal pancreatic cancer patients in inpatient palliative care units and acute hospital wards? A nationwide population-based study

open access: yesBMC Palliative Care, 2016
BackgroundInpatient palliative care is important for patients with terminal pancreatic cancer. However, the differences between inpatient palliative care and acute hospital care for inpatients with pancreatic cancer have not been explored in a population-
Jack P. Wang   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Terminal Dönem Bir Hastalıkları Olsa Doktorlar Nasıl Ölmek İsterdi? Bir Anket Çalışması

open access: yesAnkara Medical Journal, 2018
Amaç: Bu çalışmada amaç hekimlerin terminal dönemde olan bir hastalıkları olması halinde kendilerineuygulanmasını istedikleri ya da istemedikleri tedavileri saptamak ve yaptıkları bu tercihlerinin yaş vehekimlik yılı ya da branş gibi parametrelerden ...
Ramazan Avcu   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Dimension-Accuracy Tradeoffs in Contrastive Embeddings for Triplets, Terminals & Top-k Nearest Neighbors [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Metric embeddings traditionally study how to map $n$ items to a target metric space such that distance lengths are not heavily distorted; but what if we only care to preserve the relative order of the distances (and not their length)? In this paper, we are motivated by the following basic question: given triplet comparisons of the form ``item $i$ is ...
arxiv  

Spot‐14 and its paralog Spot‐14R regulate expression of metabolic and thermogenic pathway genes in murine brown and beige adipocytes

open access: yesFEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Spot‐14 and Spot‐14R play distinct roles in regulating metabolism in brown and beige adipocytes. While both influence lipid and glucose pathways, Spot‐14 uniquely controls thermogenic gene expression. This dual regulation balances energy storage and heat production, highlighting potential therapeutic targets for obesity and metabolic disorders. Spot 14
Lidia Itzel Castro‐Rodríguez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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