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Dyspnea in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

Chest, 1986
To determine the epidemiology of dyspnea in terminal cancer patients, we examined data from the National Hospice Study, which followed up patients during their last six weeks of life. The incidence of dyspnea in these patients was 70.2 percent, with prevalence rates generally exceeding 50 percent at any of three measurements.
D B, Reuben, V, Mor
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Nurses’ attitudes to terminally ill patients

Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2001
Nurses’ attitudes to terminally ill patients Background. The care of terminally ill patients is a challenge for nurses that has raised special interest in recent years. Several studies have shown a stereotyped negative attitude in nurses towards terminally ill patients. However, all have used methods with several limitations. Aim.
E M, Román, E, Sorribes, O, Ezquerro
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Drug therapy in terminally ill patients

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 1975
The drug treatment of terminally ill patients is reviewed. The treatment of the major discomforting symptoms of degenerative diseases--pain, anxiety, nausea, vomiting and depression--is reviewed. The use of phenothiazines, anticholinergic drugs and corticosteroids is discussed.
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Developmental tasks of terminally ill patients

Journal of Religion & Health, 1981
Erikson's epigenetic stages provide a conceptual map of how a person responds to the knowledge of having a terminal illness. The patient initially reworks developmental tasks that have been resolved and then works at an accelerated pace to accomplish tasks that remain ahead.
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Terminally Ill Patients as Customers: The Patient's Perspective

Journal of Palliative Medicine, 2014
Consumerism in health care defines patients as self-determined, rational customers. Yet, it is questionable whether vulnerable patients, such as the terminally ill, also fulfill these criteria. Vulnerable contexts and the patient's perspective on being a customer remain relatively unexplored.
Seibel, Katharina, Valeo, Sara Celestina, Xander, Carola, Adami, Sandra, Dürk, Thorsten, Becker, Gerhild   +5 more
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Dehydration in the terminally ill patient

Nursing Standard, 2001
Many healthcare professionals believe that dehydration is painful and uncomfortable for dying patients. There is increasing evidence to support the view that dehydration might aid comfort and reduce stress in the final days of terminal illness. The decision of whether or not to administer artificial hydration intravenously of subcutaneously causes much
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Introduction: Psychotherapy with Terminally Ill Patients

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2000
"Illness is not simply a personal experience; it is transactional, communicative, profoundly social." (1, pp. 185-186) Continued progress in treating pain and depression with medication has enabled us to keep seriously and terminally ill patients comfortable.
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Averting suicide in terminally ill patients

Psychosomatics, 1978
Abstract Possible reasons why some terminally ill patients develop suicidal tendencies are discussed in this paper. Three such patients are described and the author suggests how, by addressing the patients’ needs to feel an increased sense of mastery over their circumstances, the risk of suicide can be decreased.
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CPR in terminally ill patients?

Resuscitation, 2001
While limiting and foregoing therapy at the end of life is now accepted on medical, ethical, moral and legal grounds, many Americans continue to die with heroic measures being taken to prevent their death. When the patient does eventually die, attempts are frequently made to revive the patient by performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
P E, Marik, G P, Zaloga
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Hydration in the terminally ill patient

Nursing Standard, 1994
Dehydration 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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