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Communicating with terminal cancer patients
Patient Counselling and Health Education, 1980Communication between doctors and terminal cancer patients has been identified as a problem area in medical care. There have been attempts to overcome this problem by establishing new teaching programs; however, the most effective teaching methods are costly.
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Termination of Professional Relationships With Patients
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1979To the Editor.— I was pleased to find the SPECIAL COMMUNICATION "Terminating the Physician-Patient Relationship in Primary Care" (241:819, 1979). Too often the importance of the relationship between physician and patient is ignored, yet the interaction between physical and psychological functioning cannot be denied.
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REHABILITATION FOR THE TERMINAL CANCER PATIENT
American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 1994A study was made of 301 terminal cancer patients who received physical therapy in the hospice facility during a period of 6 1/2 years. Of 239 patients with activities of daily living disturbance, the average transfer and locomotion score on the Barthel mobility index (maximum score 47) was 12.4 before beginning the physical therapy program.
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Serenity for a Terminally Ill Patient
The American Journal of Nursing, 1966At 59, Mrs. C. was terminally ill. She lay in the hospital near death. A year and a half before her present hospitalization, Mrs. C. had been found to have an adenocarcinoma of the colon. An abdominal perineal resection was performed and a colostomy done, and Mrs. C. seemed to have been doing well. At first, she said, she had thought she would never be
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Hydration in the terminally ill patient
Nursing Standard, 1994Dehydration is considered by many health professionals to be painful and uncomfortable, and the use of intravenous fluids is often advocated to maintain hydration in the dying patient. This article examines the issue of hydration in the terminally ill patient from a theoretical, practical, ethical and legal standpoint and suggests that dehydration may ...
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Management of the Patient With Terminal Illness
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1965When the physician is caring for a patient with a terminal illness, his duties go beyond doing everything that may reasonably be done to prolong life and relieve physical suffering. He has the obligation to tell the family, and usually the patient, the clinical facts and prognosis as truthfully as he knows them.
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How the Terminal Patient Accepts Dying
Patient Counselling and Health Education, 1980This article identifies six parallel but related problem-solving tasks on which the dying patient must work in order to master the terminal crisis. While engaged in these tasks the patient experiences many emotions. Once an individual has accepted death, feelings of preparedness, peace, and achievement accompany the fulfillment of the problem-solving ...
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Recognizing delirium in terminal patients
American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, 1996P, Bergevin, R M, Bergevin
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Design of a dynamic monitoring system for patient health indexes based on mobile terminal
AEJ - Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2021exaly