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Quantifying racial disparities in end-of-life care
There are established racial disparities in healthcare, particularly during end-of-life care when poor communication and historical inequities can lead to suboptimal options and outcomes for patients and their families. Previous work has suggested that medical disparities can reflect higher rates …
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End-of-life care in China: ecology of hope
In this thesis I explore the current end-of-life care provision as experienced by older people with advanced cancer in three distinct care settings in Yunnan China: a hospice, an inpatient palliative care ward and a self-help organisation. In particular, I focus on the role of "hope" at the end of …
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Medication use in palliative and end of life care
Background:<br/>People with advanced cancer are often prescribed complex medication regimens. This makes the process of medicines management (incorporating prescribing, dispensing, adherence and medication review) challenging for this patient population. The overall aim of this thesis was to …
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Uncovering the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care
TITLE: Uncovering the Lived Experience of Hospital Nurses Providing End-of-Life Care<br/><br/>BACKGROUND: In end-of-life care there is one chance to get it right. Policy and drivers that aim to achieve this are founded on sound palliative care principles. How these principles effect the care in a …
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A critical realist evaluation of end of life care in care homes.
Numbers of advance care plans and unnecessary admissions to hospital at the end of life are outcomes commonly used to determine the quality of end of life care in UK care homes. However, there is currently a sparsity of research systematically exploring the underlying processes behind these …
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Communities of practice for end of life care workplace settings: A case study.
Communities of practice have been used as a way of sharing practice and developing knowledge. The End of Life Care Education Consortium was formed by three hospice education departments in the West Midlands, United Kingdom, with the support of the Strategic Health Authority, to provide education …
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Acute Care Nurses' Perceptions of Barrier to End of Life Care in Geriatrics
<p>Approximately 50 to 60 percent of the elderly population is dying in a hospital or a long-term care facility. Many patients who are dying in the hospital setting have unmet needs. Nursing perception of the quality of end of life care was studied and revealed a basic social problem; while nurses …
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Oldest-old partner’s experiences of providing end-of-life care: a narrative study
… ageing has rapidly increased the number of people requiring end-of-life care across the globe. Governments have responded by promoting end-of-life in the community. Partly as a consequence, older partners are frequently providing for their partner’s end-of-life care at home, despite …
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Cultural Competence and End-of-Life Care: Religion, Spirituality and Health Care Decision-Making
The changing demographic of the U.S. population has shed new light on the importance of providing all patients with the highest standard of care possible. An increase in the number of foreign-born residents with diverse religious backgrounds requires health care professionals to know strategies for …
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End-of-life care in residential aged care: The perceptions of bereaved family members
Background In recent years, life expectancy has increased causing a higher global percentage of older people living with multiple chronic health problems including dementia. This increase in the aged population with complicated health issues has required governments and health care systems …
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Collective social capital: a study of new public health and end-of-life care
Background: An appreciation of the broader social determinants of health and wellbeing has led to the inclusion of new public health principles and practice within health and social care. End-of-life care has been no exception and there exists a favourable policy context, significant body of …
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End-of-life Care Practices in Two Cultures: A Comparative Ethical Analysis and Recommendations
… the similarities and differences between the end-of-life care strategies employed in the United States and Saudi Arabia. End-of-life care has emerged in recent decades as a medical practice specialty. It has taken on enhanced significance in the United States in tandem with the aging of the …
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Planning for death? An ethnographic study of choice and English end-of-life care
In 2008 the National End of Life Care Strategy was released in England to create a largescale change in the way dying patients were cared for. This dissertation explores the meaning, practice, and experiences of end-of-life care (EOLC). It is based on ethnographic fieldwork from 2010-2012 that …
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UNDERSTANDING NURSES’ EXPERIENCES OF PROVIDING END-OF-LIFE CARE IN THE UNITED STATES HOSPITAL SETTING
Nurses perform a vital role in the care of dying patients and their families. Hence, experiences of nurses are a meaningful source from which to advance holistic end-of-life care. In this study, a hermeneutic phenomenological perspective was used to explore the phenomenon of end-of-life nursing …
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End-of-life care: identifying an appropriate legal framework for specialist palliative care in Ireland
… framework in Ireland for specialist palliative care is inadequate and consequently a more appropriate legal framework must be identified. This research is guided by three central research questions. The first central research question examines the legitimacy of the distinction between specialist …
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End-of-life care supports and decision-making practices in specialist intellectual disability residential services
Background: Over the past 50 years, the profile of people with intellectual disability (ID) has changed because they are living longer with a wide range of co-morbid conditions, which impact on both their cognitive and physical abilities to engage in conversations about end-of-life care. Coupled …
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Palliative and end-of-life care in pandemic times: Clinicians' perspectives on the dying process
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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