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Showing posts with label end of life care. Show all posts
Showing posts with label end of life care. Show all posts
Thursday, April 19, 2012

JCO: Palliative Sedation: When and How? Commentary including references

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  Blogger's Note:  “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.” Albert Einstein      ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Where the Oldest Die Now - NYTimes.com

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Where the Oldest Die Now - NYTimes.com ".... But if people are being shuttled from home to hospital to nursing home (and possibly ar...
Sunday, April 01, 2012

End-of-life care: the neglected core business of medicine : The Lancet

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End-of-life care: the neglected core business of medicine : The Lancet
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

ScienceDirect.com - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Talking About End-of-Life Preferences With Advanced Cancer Patients: Factors Influencing Feasibility

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ScienceDirect.com - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - Talking About End-of-Life Preferences With Advanced Cancer Patients: Factors In...
Friday, February 17, 2012

abstract: Preferences for place of death if faced with advanced cancer: a population survey in England, Flanders, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain

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Blogger' Note: implications (and distortions) for policy makers continue on this issue aside from this specific paper; assumptions on...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Karolinska Institutet - Complexities in caregiving at the end of life (re: PLOS study)

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"...The study indicates three key areas that are sometimes overlooked in palliative care, namely bodily care and contact, a secure, ae...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

open access: PLoS Medicine: Complexity in Non-Pharmacological Caregiving Activities at the End of Life: An International Qualitative Study including Editorial Summary

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including: Editors' Summary Top Background End-of-life care is a major public health issue, yet despite the inevitability of deat...

End-of-life care is complex but aims to provide care and comfort

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"...They add: "This adaptation is accomplished by using knowledge about and respect for the person as an individual with a life h...
Friday, February 10, 2012

abstract: No place like the hospital. [J Pain Symptom Manage

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Source Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. mgillick@partners.org Abstract The gold standard for e...
Wednesday, February 08, 2012

abstract: A survey of gynecologic oncologists regarding the End-of-Life discussion: A pilot study

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Results. Response rate was 12.8%.  Highlights ► A survey was sent to 1105 gynecologic oncologists to evaluate practices and attitude...
Monday, February 06, 2012

abstract: The Pattern of Antimicrobial Use for Palliative Care In-Patients During the Last Week of Life

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Background : In terminally ill cancer patients approaching the dying phase, liberal use of antimicrobials is often viewed by palliative ...
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abstract: End-of-Life Care at an Academic Medical Center

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"Background: End-of-life care is deemed to be poor in the United States – particularly in large teaching hospitals. Via a brief sur...

abstract: A Qualitative Study of Family Involvement in Decisions About Life Support in the Intensive Care Unit

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"We explored family involvement in decisions about life support interventions in the intensive care unit study using a critical ...
Friday, January 20, 2012

Stein Kaasa (Norway): Let me show you what integrated palliative care can do - Cover Story - Issues 46 - Articles - Cancer World (open access)

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"One aspect of his field particularly annoys Kaasa, and that is terminology . As far as he is concerned, it is called ‘palliative car...
Sunday, January 15, 2012

The Nature and Timing of Family-Provider Communication in Late-Stage Cancer:abstract

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Effect of dignity therapy on distress and end-of-life experience in terminally ill patients: a randomised controlled trial : The Lancet Oncology

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Background Dignity therapy is a unique, individualised, short-term psychotherapy that was developed for patients (and their families) livin...
Monday, June 13, 2011

End-of-Life Care for Advanced Lung Cancer Differs Markedly Between U.S. and Ontario

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Note : study on lung cancer but pertinent for all cancer patients/families Even more important, he writes, patient pre...
Friday, October 08, 2010

Canadian Health Reference Guide-Patients and caregivers want more support at the end of life

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New tool helps patients and families communicate their needs
Friday, May 14, 2010

abstract: Gynecologic Oncology : End of life care for women with gynecologic cancers Ontario, Canada

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

End of life in cancer patients: drugs or words? — Ann Oncol

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Note: editorial partial extract from full paper ($$)