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Health Care Ethics – Am I Dying
International Journal of Endorsing Health Science Research, 2014 One of the most complex ethical dilemmas faced by health care professionals working with terminally ill patients is whether, when, how and how much to tell terminal ill patients about their diagnosis and prognosis of disease. Deception is still sometimes
Neelam Saleem Punjani +3 more
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Degenerate Gauss hypergeometric functions [PDF]
Kyushu Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 61 (2007), pg. 109-135, 2004 This is a study of terminating and ill-defined Gauss hypergeometric functions. Corresponding hypergeometric equations have a degenerate set of of 24 Kummer's solutions. We describe those solutions and relations between them.
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Cogent Medicine, 2018 In Nigeria, little is known about healthcare providers’ practice of prognostic information communication to terminally ill patients, especially from the patients’ viewpoint. This qualitative descriptive study explored views of terminally ill patients on:
Chijioke Oliver Nwodoh +5 more
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Design of a Hospice Referral System for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients Using a Standards-Based Health Information Exchange System [PDF]
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2018 ObjectivesThe demand for hospice has been increasing among patients with cancer. This study examined the current hospice referral scenario for terminally ill cancer patients and created a data form to collect hospice information and a modified health ...
Kahyun Lim +5 more
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Diversity in Representations and Voices of Terminally Ill People in End-of-Life Documentaries [PDF]
, 2021 Background: The 21st century has seen a proliferation of end-of-life documentary films and television documentaries that contribute to building a public image of hospice and palliative care.
Hakola, Outi
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An Accelerated Failure Time Regression Model for Illness-Death Data: A Frailty Approach [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 This work presents a new model and estimation procedure for the illness-death survival data where the hazard functions follow accelerated failure time (AFT) models. A shared frailty variate induces positive dependence among failure times of a subject for handling the unobserved dependency between the non-terminal and the terminal failure times given ...
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Psychological impairments burden and spirituality in caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients
European Journal of Cancer Care, 2018 The role of spirituality on the psychological health was mostly investigated through studies conducted in terminally ill patients. However, there are not studies investigating the role of religious and spiritual beliefs on psychological state and on ...
C. Lai +7 more
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A Bayesian multivariate spatial approach for illness-death survival models [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Illness-death models are a class of stochastic models inside the multi-state framework. In those models, individuals are allowed to move over time between different states related to illness and death. They are of special interest when working with non-terminal diseases, as they not only consider the competing risk of death but also allow to study ...
arxiv
Care for a terminally ill person: A guide for pastors
In die Skriflig, 2004 Everybody is faced with unique challenges and experiences during his/her life cycle. Some experiences are sudden and untimely, whereas others are expected.
H. Powell
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BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Backgrounds Early integration of palliative care for terminally ill non-cancer patients improves quality of life. However, there are scanty data on Palliative Care Consultation Service (PCCS) among non-cancer patients.
Lian-Shin Lin +7 more
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