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Palliative care in the community [PDF]
, 2007 Primary care has a vital role in delivering palliative care. In most developed countries more people die in hospital than at home, although substantially more people would prefer to die at home.
Dale, Jeremy, Munday, Dan
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Mutations in myelin regulatory factor (MYRF) are linked to demyelinating disorders. We report a 38‐year‐old male who developed acute symmetric leukoencephalopathy mimicking a stroke following an influenza A virus infection. While clinical symptoms markedly improved with corticosteroids, MRI revealed persistent white matter lesions, contrasting
Jinghan Hu +5 more
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Deep Ecology and End-of-Life Care
, 2009 Physicians and nurses caring for terminally ill patients are expected to center their moral concerns almost exclusively on the needs and welfare of the dying patient and the patients family.
Carrick, Paul
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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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BMC Palliative Care, 2014 BackgroundDespite research efforts over recent decades to deepen our understanding of why some terminally ill patients express a wish to die (WTD), there is broad consensus that we need more detailed knowledge about the factors that might influence such ...
K. Ohnsorge, H. Gudat, C. Rehmann-Sutter
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Variably Protease‐Sensitive Prionopathy: Two New Cases With Motor Neuron‐Dementia Syndrome
Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We describe two patients with variably protease‐sensitive prionopathy (VPSPr) who developed progressive upper motor neuron symptoms, insomnia, behavioral and cognitive decline, compatible with primary lateral sclerosis associated with frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
María Elena Erro +10 more
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Determinant factors of mortality in terminally ill patients with do-not-resuscitate orders
Formosan Journal of Surgery, 2018 Background: This study aimed to profile the clinical pictures and identify the risk factors of mortality among terminally ill patients who visited the emergency department (ED) and had signed do-not-resuscitate (DNR) consents.
Chao-Hui Su +5 more
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Regulating Access to Developmental Drugs for Terminally Ill Patients: Abigail Alliance v FDA [PDF]
This amicus brief was filed in support of the Abigail Alliance for Better Access to Developmental Drugs in their lawsuit to force the Food and Drug Administration to provide patient access to drugs for cancer and other life-threatening illnesses after ...
Calfee, John E. +4 more
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Ethical Issues in the Drug Approval Process [PDF]
, 2013 The Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) drug approval process carries great significance for both pharmaceutical companies and for patients. In recent decades, there has been a shift towards expedited approval so that drugs, especially those for ...
McInnis, Meghan
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