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Journal of International Medical Research, 2021 Objectives To determine the prevalence of neuropathic pain among terminally ill patients with cancer admitted to a general ward, using the International Association for the Study of Pain algorithm.
Ryota Yanaizumi +5 more
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Planning for the End of Life for People with Dementia - Part 2 [PDF]
, 2011 This publication is a discussion about additional end-of-life options which may become legally available at some time in the future, i.e., assisted death (usually called euthanasia or assisted suicide).
Colleen Cartwright
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Ringer lactate - the magical fluid
Research and Humanities in Medical Education, 2020 This article narrates my personal encounter with a terminally ill cancer patient at our rural clinic. I learned a lot from the experience. It made me reflect on the importance of palliative care in terminally ill patients and the practical difficulties ...
Vinod H Krishnamoorthy
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Educational process in palliative care and the overhaul of thinking
Investigación y Educación en Enfermería, 2017 Objective. To know the contributions of the educational process in Palliative Care during the undergraduate level for the professional action of nurses in the care of patients at the end of life. Methods.
Karen Knopp de Carvalho +4 more
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Nursing care in terminality: compliance with principles of bioethics
Revista Gaúcha de EnfermagemThe aim of the study was to investigate the principles of bioethics reported by nurses when caring for terminally ill patients. Exploratory research with qualitative approach, developed with fifteen nurses from an intensive care unit of a university ...
Zirleide Carlos Felix +5 more
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A methodology to systematically analyze the hospital discharge of terminally ill patients [PDF]
, 2018 To provide an appropriate method to systematically analyze the hospital discharge of terminally ill patients especially the cooperation between hospital and community nurses and the quality of the discharge handovers.
Bosma, Ingeborg +6 more
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Comunicação de prognóstico reservado ao paciente infantil
Revista BioéticaA morte de uma criança é um assunto difícil de ser abordado, mesmo para equipes de saúde. Este trabalho discute sobre a postura do profissional da saúde diante da necessidade de comunicação sobre um paciente infantil com prognóstico reservado. Para tanto,
Marjory Dionizio Toma +2 more
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Practical Contours [PDF]
, 1993 This paper considers current medical and legal perspectives on patients\u27 right to assistance in dying. In highlighting the competing policy objectives that must be resolved, it examines failed legislative initiatives in Washington and California.
Dangelantonio, Anthony J.
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Associations between palliative chemotherapy and adult cancer patients’ end of life care and place of death: prospective cohort study [PDF]
, 2014 Objectives: To determine whether the receipt of chemotherapy among terminally ill cancer patients months before death was associated with patients’ subsequent intensive medical care and place of death.
Keating, Nancy L +4 more
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Extending life for people with a terminal illness: a moral right and an expensive death? Exploring societal perspectives [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Many publicly-funded health systems apply cost-benefit frameworks in response to the moral dilemma of how best to allocate scarce healthcare resources.
Baker, Rachel M. +7 more
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