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Showing 1 to 20 of 471 for “"Palliative"”.
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Assessing palliative care policies in Africa: Implication for paediatric palliative care
… world, there are millions of children who need palliative care from the moment they are diagnosed with life-threatening and life-limiting illnesses, yet very few children have access to palliative care services. In many African countries, where palliative care is still new, many children with …
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Palliative Care Consultation Trajectories
… VA) mandated that all VA hospitals have a palliative care consult team: PCCT) to provide services to veterans with life-limiting illness. PCCTs within the VA are new, so little is known about their efficacy and utilization. The purpose of this study is to examine the timing of PCCT …
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Perceptions of palliative nursing
… the lived experiences of nurses delivering palliative care, and dying patients receiving palliative care. The aim of the study was to examine the perceptions of patients and nurses regarding palliative care, and in particular, how they described a good palliative care nurse. The study …
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Palliative Care: Viewpoints from Nurses
TITLE: Palliative Care: Viewpoints from Nurses Palliative Care has been described as care that includes the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, and spiritual needs of an individual when they are diagnosed with a serious or life-limiting illness. The ultimate goal of palliative care is to …
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Palliative Chemotherapie des nicht-kleinzelligen Bronchialkarzinoms
In der vorliegenden Studie wurde die Effektivität palliativer Therapieansätze für Patienten mit fortgeschrittenem nicht-kleinzelligem Bronchialkarzinom untersucht. Zugrunde liegen die Daten von 75 Patienten, die an der Medizinischen Universitätsklinik Würzburg im Schwerpunkt Pneumologie zwischen …
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Improving Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Rounding
University of Washington Abstract Improving Palliative Care Interdisciplinary Team Rounding Mikka Marun Uehara, BSN, RN, DNP-AGNP-PC Student Chair of the Supervisory Committee:Elizabeth Bridges, PhD, RN, CCNS, FCCM, FAAN Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics Eeeseung Byun, PhD, RN …
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Ethics of palliative care in practice.
Contains fulltext : 48291.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Specialist palliative day care : patients' perspectives
… Psychosocial Experiences of Attending Specialist Palliative Day Care: A Systematic Literature Review’. Recent reviews conclude that the benefits of attending Specialist Palliative Day Care are likely to be in the social, psychological and spiritual domains. However these areas are not easily …
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Systemic and Racial Barriers to Palliative Care
… process. The specialty of Hospice and Palliative Medicine was created specifically with these difficult, but very common, situations in mind. Even though the concept of palliative care has become mainstream and its practice is considered standard of care in many situations, it continues …
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Palliative Care Education to Increase Outpatient Provider Knowledge and Palliative Care Referral Intent Within Veterans Healthcare System of the Ozarks
… Examine outpatient providers' perceptions of palliative care education in increasing their understanding, knowledge of resources, and intent to refer. Research questions/goals: 1) Increase provider understanding about palliative care and the benefits that patients can receive as a result of …
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An Examination of Uncertainty in Perinatal Palliative Care
… a neonate or a woman carrying a fetus. Providing palliative and end-of-life care for these patients requires a complex interaction of clinical skills, communication skills, and ethical evaluation. This thesis is based on a practicum in which I observed discussions between health care professionals …
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A Conceptual Analysis of Canadian Palliative Care Ethics
Introduction: In the palliative care literature there has been debate over the occurrence and the desirability of the rationalization of palliative care. The discussion is based mostly on opinion, anecdote and argument. Little discussion is based on research, or is specific to Canada. Considering …
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THE INTERSECTIONALITY OF ABLEISM AND PEDIATRIC PALLIATIVE CARE
Since the early nineteenth century, physicians have been offering the tracheostomy as a second chance at life. This procedure both saves and inextricably changes lives. Medical providers have barely scratched the surface of understanding the complexities of offering this technology. Ethically, …
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Drug Combinations in Palliative Care: A Compatibility Study
End of life care often involves the use of combinations of more than one drug in a syringe for administration by a continuous subcutaneous infusion using a syringe driver or pump. This is considered to be an effective method of symptom management and can provide a good control of symptoms. The …
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Nurse Practitioner Role Enactment in Community Palliative Care
Abstract Background: Access to adequate palliative care has been identified as a challenge globally, in Canada, and in the province of Ontario. While pockets of excellence exist, there is a national call for allocation of resources and implementation of best practices to improve the care for …
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Physiotherapy palliative cancer care: a case study approach.
… continues to evolve in the delivery of palliative cancer care services. Whilst it appears that there is an increasing need for physiotherapists, there is a lack of understanding about the nature of their role, their educational needs and their place within the rehabilitation team. The …
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An Investigation of the Benefits of Palliative Care for Patients with Chronic Heart Failure at a Novel Hospital-Based Palliative Care Service.
… cardiac condition that would benefit from palliative care and yet palliative care is still mainly provided for people with cancer or HIV. Patients with end-stage heart failure experience similar clinical symptoms as patients with advanced cancer with significant physical and emotional …
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Chemoptherapy Dose Reductions in Palliative Lung Cancer. Evaluating Chemotherapy Dose Reductions following Neutropenia in Palliative Lung Cancer to prevent further Adverse Events
… a life-threatening and dose-limiting toxicity of palliative lung cancer chemotherapy. Whilst some neutropenias are inevitable, evidence suggests that patients with a previous neutropenic event are 50% more likely to have a further neutropenic event. The aim of this research is to evaluate the …
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Emotional support in palliative care nursing: a concept analysis.
… the use of the term emotional support within palliative care nursing. The term žemotional supportŸ appears frequently in the nursing literature, however, there is no clear definition of what it is and its application in nursing practice. Thus resulting in a vague and ambiguous term, raising …
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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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