French general practitioners vary in their attitudes toward treating terminally ill patients.

abstract：:The frequency of the use of laxatives, and the relationship between doses of laxatives and of opioid analgesia, were determined by a prospective study of 498 hospice inpatients with advanced cancer. Laxatives were required by 87% of patients taking oral strong opioids, 74% of those on weak opioids and 64% of those not...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Sykes NP

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports UK doctors' opinions about legalisation of medically assisted dying (euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide), comparing this with the UK general public. A postal survey of 3733 UK medical practitioners was done. The majority of UK doctors are opposed to legalisation, contrasting with the UK gener...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Seale C

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports the process and results of a psychometric evaluation of a clinical audit tool, the Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS), used to measure outcomes of palliative care. The STAS was developed in London, UK to audit community palliative care services provided by a support team. The purpose of this st...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Carson MG,Fitch MI,Vachon ML

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attitudes to companion animals were surveyed among 50 patients and staff at a day care hospice. Dog visits were welcomed by all but two. Of the 37 patients studied, only seven had a companion animal, often their closest companion. Many more would like to keep an animal, but were prevented by age, frailty or accommodat...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Phear DN

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Communities have limited understanding of palliative care, creating barriers to informed choice around consideration of a full range of care options in the event of serious illness. Few empirically tested interventions are available to educate community about palliative care, and ultimately improve timely ac...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Collins A,McLachlan SA,Hill M,Collins S,Philip J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A systematic review, undertaken according to an initiative to revise European Association for Palliative Care guidelines on the use of opioids for cancer pain, which aimed to analyse analgesic efficacy and side effects of spinal opioids in adult cancer patients previously treated with systemic opioids. METH...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Kurita GP,Kaasa S,Sjøgren P,European Palliative Care Research Collaborative (EPCRC).

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is often suggested that terminally ill patients favour end-of-life care at home. Yet, it is unclear how these preferences are formed, if the process is similar for patients and family caregivers, and if there are discrepancies between preferences for place of care and place of death. Understanding these n...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gerber K,Hayes B,Bryant C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIMS:Palliative medicine is not recognized as a medical specialty in any of the five Nordic countries, but there is a great need for physicians with specialty qualifications to serve on an increasing number of palliative care services. The Associations for Palliative Medicine in the five countries agreed...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Haugen DF,Vejlgaard T

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclizine is an antihistamine, which is frequently used to manage nausea and vomiting in cancer patients. Antihistamines can be drugs of misuse/abuse, and the article describes four cancer patients who developed such problems after receiving parenteral cyclizine within the inpatient unit of a cancer centre. The articl...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bailey F,Davies A

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastroparesis is an under-recognised cause of refractory nausea and vomiting in patients with malignancy. The most common aetiologies are paraneoplastic and postsurgical dysmotility. There are little data on the efficacy of treatment to direct the management of patients with this symptom. We present a case a...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Franco M,Koulaeva E

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this population-based study, we found that parents who are aware that their child will die from a malignancy are more likely to care for their child at home during the child's last month of life compared to parents who are not aware. End-of-life home care was comparable to hospital care for satisfactory pain relief...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Surkan PJ,Dickman PW,Steineck G,Onelöv E,Kreicbergs U

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty junior residents completed a six-month training period. An anonymous postal questionnaire was sent to collect the residents' opinions on improvements in their knowledge, perception of priorities and usefulness of training. Responses were rated from 5 (a great deal) to 1 (not at all improved). A total of 33 (66%)...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Duong PH,Zulian GB

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Exploring terminal patients' perceptions of GPs' role in delivering continuous end-of-life care and identifying barriers to this. DESIGN:Qualitative interview study with patients (two consecutive interviews). SETTING:Primary care Belgium. PARTICIPANTS:Seventeen terminally ill cancer patients, informed abo...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Michiels E,Deschepper R,Van Der Kelen G,Bernheim JL,Mortier F,Vander Stichele R,Deliens L

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high prevalence of pain and other symptoms throughout the HIV disease trajectory, the need for management of side effects related to antiretroviral therapy, the continuing incidence of cancers and new emerging co-morbidities as a result of extended life expectancy under new therapeutic regimes, and the ongoing nee...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Harding R,Easterbrook P,Higginson IJ,Karus D,Raveis VH,Marconi K

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cytochrome P450 3A is the most relevant drug-metabolizing enzyme in humans as it is involved in the elimination of 50% of marketed drugs. Nothing is known about the activity of cytochrome P450 3A in palliative care patients who have complicated symptoms often associated with a terminal illness. AIM:In order...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Geist M,Bardenheuer H,Burhenne J,Mikus G

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical pathways aim to ensure that individuals receive appropriate evidence-based care and interventions, with the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient focusing on end of life. However, controlled studies of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, particularly outside of cancer settings, ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Brännström M,Fürst CJ,Tishelman C,Petzold M,Lindqvist O

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sedatives are frequently used towards the end of life. However, there is scarce information when their use is labelled as 'palliative sedation'. AIM:To assess the use and labelling of 'continuous administration of sedatives within the last 7 days of life', based on objective operational criteria, on a palli...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Schildmann E,Pörnbacher S,Kalies H,Bausewein C

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family caregivers in palliative care often report feeling insufficiently prepared to handle the caregiver role. Preparedness has been confirmed as a variable that may actually protect family caregiver well-being. Preparedness refers to how ready family caregivers perceive they are for the tasks and demands i...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Henriksson A,Årestedt K

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare but usually fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system in patients who are immunocompromised. It is characterized by rapid neurological deterioration associated with progressive white matter changes on imaging and is confirmed by isolation of th...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Cotton PJ,Le B

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in palliative care settings. To date, the clinical impact of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in palliative care is unknown. AIM:To determine prevalence and incidence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus col...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gleeson A,Larkin P,Walsh C,O'Sullivan N

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Research Network of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) performed a survey of 3030 cancer patients from 143 palliative care centres in 21 European countries. The survey addressed pain intensity and the use of non-opioid analgesics, adjuvant analgesics and opioids. Patients were treated with analges...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Klepstad P,Kaasa S,Cherny N,Hanks G,de Conno F,Research Steering Committee of the EAPC.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Open pulmonary tuberculosis has been increasingly seen in HIV-infected patients in this hospice. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a new and serious threat and two cases have occurred in our hospice in the past two years. This infection poses a health risk to staff, patients, relatives and volunteers. Palliative car...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： McKeogh MM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nursing homes are becoming a common site where delivering end-of-life care for older adults. They often represent the junction between the curative and the palliative phase. AIM:To identify the elements that nursing home residents' family carers perceive as good end-of-life care and develop a conceptual mod...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gonella S,Basso I,De Marinis MG,Campagna S,Di Giulio P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dementia is a life limiting illness and is becoming a major cause of death in developed countries. Many people with dementia die in nursing homes or long-term residential care settings. Spouse caregivers of people with dementia living in nursing homes find themselves in a position which is difficult to under...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Hennings J,Froggatt K,Payne S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to synthesize knowledge about the process of shared decision-making (SDM) in palliative care. Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Web of Science were searched with core concepts: shared decisions, patient participation in decision-making, and palliative care. Titles and abstracts were screened...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bélanger E,Rodríguez C,Groleau D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:This research examines 2006 population-based data on persons who died in US nursing homes (NHs) and received hospice in the NH. METHODS:We compared dying persons characteristics and lengths of hospice stay in five US states between 1992 and 1996 and in 2006. We also compared characteristics of dying perso...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Sterns S,Miller SC

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A study designed to explore the experiences of patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and their carers, particularly with regard to ongoing and palliative care needs. METHODS:The participants were nine men and one woman with severe COPD and the carers of eight of the men, in East ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Seamark DA,Blake SD,Seamark CJ,Halpin DM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE/OBJECTIVE:Patients with cancer or symptoms referable to cancer therapy were offered acupuncture as potential palliation of their symptoms. This paper describes the physical integration of the discipline into the Oncology Clinic, and patient perspectives on its availability and efficacy. PATIENTS AND METHODS:Be...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Johnstone PA,Polston GR,Niemtzow RC,Martin PJ

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of children and young people who die in the United Kingdom have pre-existing life-limiting illness. Currently, most such deaths occur in hospital, most frequently within the intensive care environment. AIM:To explore the experiences of senior medical and nursing staff regarding the challenges a...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mitchell S,Dale J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family members often take on many caring responsibilities, with complex issues and challenges to consider. Feelings of preparedness, competence and reward are identified as concepts that may protect caregiver wellbeing and decrease negative outcomes related to caregiving. AIM:This study aimed to translate, ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Henriksson A,Andershed B,Benzein E,Arestedt K

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00