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Showing posts with label hospice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hospice. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

paywalled: Conveying empathy to hospice family caregivers: Team responses to caregiver empathic communication

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Conveying empathy to hospice family caregivers: Team responses to caregiver empathic communication : Publication year: 2012 Source: Patie...
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 07, 2012

abstract: American Society of Clinical Oncology Provisional Clinical Opinion: The Integration of Palliative Care into Standard Oncology Care

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American Society of Clinical Oncology Provisional Clinical Opinion: The Integration of Palliative Care into Standard Oncology Care Abstra...
Wednesday, February 29, 2012

abstract: Radiation Oncology Quality: Aggressiveness of Cancer Care Near the End of Life

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Radiation Oncology Quality: Aggressiveness of Cancer Care Near the End of Life Purpose Quality in cancer care is an issue that has come t...
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...
Thursday, February 09, 2012

Editorial: Full-text - For a Modern Concept of Palliative Care

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"Unfortunately, in most countries hospice care addresses end-of-life care." "....This late refe...

abstract: Palliative Medicine Fellowship: A Study of Resident Choices

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Context There are no data on the motives or characteristics of physicians choosing fellowship training in Hospice and Palliative Medic...
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...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Search Results: palliative vs hospice 2011 ASCO Abstractsts

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Find ALL words: palliative vs hospice Found 35 documents, showing
Thursday, March 31, 2011

video/text: Palliative Medicine: Care versus Cure? Dr Diane Meier/ Richard Heffner's Open Mind - dialogue (U.S.)

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AIR DATE: 2/26/2011
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Association Between a Name Change from Palliative to Supportive Care and the Timing of Patient Referrals -- The Oncologist

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"....B ecause of the nature of our institution as a comprehensive cancer center with a large patient volume, the results might not b...
Monday, August 09, 2010

Hospice enrollment for terminally ill patients with gynecologic malignancies: Impact on outcomes and interventions (abstract)

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Objective   To determine survival and interventions for patients with non-curative gynecologic malignancies based on supportive care ...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Attitudes towards weight and weight assessment in oncology patients: survey of hospice staff and patients with advanced cancer — Palliat Med

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"...A little over half of hospice staff, 81/146 (56%) considered that weighing could cause patients to be upset. However, 124/129 (96%...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Hospice enrollment for terminally ill patients with gynecologic malignancies: Impact on outcomes and interventions

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CONCLUSIONS: While retrospective reviews evaluating hospice are challenging, our data suggest no detrimental impact on survival for hospi...
Sunday, June 06, 2010

Abstract/full free access: Tracking the evolution of hospice palliative care in Canada: A comparative case study analysis of seven provinces

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Friday, June 04, 2010

'The worst thing about hospice is that they talk about death': contrasting hospice decisions and experience among immigrant Central and South American Latinos with US-born White, non-Latino cancer caregivers

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Abstract: Hospice care is promoted as a model for improving end of life care and decreasing burden on caregivers. However, hospice use is l...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Impact of caregivers’ unmet needs for supportive care on quality of terminal cancer care delivered and caregiver’s workforce performance

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Conclusions Caregivers’ unmet needs negatively affected both the quality of EOL care they delivered and their workplace performance. More ...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Urgent notice: Ovarian Cancer woman needs help - pls respond Vancouver, BC

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An ovarian cancer woman is being discharged to home hospice care, however, her wishes are to die within an institutional complex hospice ca...