BMJ Open, 2020 Objectives Positive attitudes towards end-of-life care are essential among nursing students to adequately support terminally ill patients and enable students to feel confident about providing end-of-life care.
Jérôme Pasquier +5 more
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Subject: care for a terminally ill child [PDF]
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2019 A terminal illness of a child is a traumatic experience for both the child and the family. The illness destroys their current life, The terminally ill patient experiences total pain, which includes not only physical pain caused by lesions, but also ...
Ewa Kowacka
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GPs' views on transfer of information about terminally ill patients to the out-of-hours co-operative [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2009 Background In the Netherlands, the increase in of out-of-hours care that is provided by GP co-operatives is challenging the continuity of care for the terminally ill in general practice.
Giesen Paul +5 more
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Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya [PDF]
BMC Palliative Care, 2017 BackgroundAn advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates a person’s health care preference while they are competent to make decisions for themselves and is used to guide decisions on life-sustaining treatment in the ...
Stephen Omondi +3 more
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Meaning in life of terminally ill parents with minor children compared to palliative care patients – a quantitative analysis using SMiLE [PDF]
Palliative Care and Social PracticeBackground: Caring for terminally ill patients with minor children can be very stressful. The perceived quality of life is significantly influenced by the Meaning in Life (MiL).
Henning Cuhls +4 more
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Survival Prediction of Patients Who Were Terminally Ill Using the EORTC QLQ-C15-PAL Scores and Laboratory Test Values [PDF]
Palliative Medicine Reports, 2023 Background: Prognostics for patients with cancer is especially important for the supportive care of those who are terminally ill. We previously found that symptom scores as patient-reported outcomes (PROs)?such as dyspnea and fatigue scores?some ...
Chikako Matsumura +9 more
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What are the experiences and support needs of district nurses caring for terminally ill people with delirium at home? A qualitative study [PDF]
BMC Palliative CareBackground Delirium is a serious neuropsychiatric syndrome, which is common amongst terminally ill people in the community. District nurses have a key role in supporting terminally ill people to remain at home.
Elizabeth Arnold +3 more
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Relationship Between Perilesional Skin Condition and Survival in Terminally Ill Patients with Pressure Ulcers [PDF]
MedicinaBackground and Objectives: In the context of palliative care, the aim is to alleviate suffering and improve quality of life, with particular attention to PUs, which have a significant impact on quality of life and survival.
María Isabel Pastor-Orduña +6 more
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The relationship with the terminally ill patient
Clinical Management Issues, 2008 n ...
Adriano Pessina
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Construction of Hospice Care Evaluation System for Terminally Ill Patients in ICU [PDF]
Patient Preference and AdherenceQing-Ling Wang,1,* Cheng-Rui Liu,2,* Peng Yue,3 Bin-Ru Han1 1Department of Emergency, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, 100053, People’s Republic of China; 2School of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology,
Wang QL, Liu CR, Yue P, Han BR
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