Being aware of the prognosis: how does it relate to palliative care patients' anxiety and communication difficulty with family members in the Hong Kong Chinese context?

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prognostic tools are available to predict if terminally ill cancer patients have days or weeks to live. Tools for predicting the prognosis in ambulatory patients at an earlier stage are lacking. The Number of Risk Factors (NRF) score developed in ambulatory cancer patients receiving palliative radiation ther...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Glare P,Shariff I,Thaler HT

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Dyspnea is common in interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients and often refractory to conventional treatment. Little is known regarding the safety of systemic morphine in ILD patients. Objective: The objective of th...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Matsuda Y,Morita T,Miyaji T,Ogawa T,Kato K,Kawaguchi T,Tokoro A,Iwase S,Yamaguchi T,Inoue Y

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An advance directive, a description of one's future preferences for medical treatment, must be easily available to care providers to ensure that one's treatment preferences are honored. The transition of our health care system to an electronic medical record complicated the availability of a patient's written advance ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bricker LJ,Lambing A,Markey C

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The use of complementary and alternative medicines (CAM) in patients with cancer is well recognized. Little is known, however, about the use of CAM in children with cancer during the end-of-life period. METHODS:We interviewed 96 parents of children who had died of cancer in Melbourne, Australia between 1996...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Heath JA,Oh LJ,Clarke NE,Wolfe J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliating the whole person requires that medicine attend more fully to the phenomenon of existential suffering. The role of social factors, in particular, is often overlooked in attempts to understand why end-of-life suffering does not always respond to physiologic, psychological, and spiritual interventions. Using q...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Williams BR

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To describe caregivers' reasons for transfer from home hospice to inpatient facilities, preferences for site of care and death, and their experiences during these transfers. DESIGN:Retrospective qualitative analysis of interviews with caregivers of deceased hospice patients who had undergone transfer. SETTI...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Evans WG,Cutson TM,Steinhauser KE,Tulsky JA

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Guidelines on pediatric palliative care recommend to provide care for children and adolescents with life-limiting conditions at home. Since 2007, in Germany, palliative home care can be provided by specialized outpatient palliative care teams. However, teams wi...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Engler J,Gruber D,Engler F,Hach M,Seipp H,Kuss K,Gerlach FM,Ulrich LR,Erler A

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have well-documented symptoms that affect quality of life. Professional societies recommend palliative care for such patients, but the optimal way of delivering this care is unknown. OBJECTIVE:To describe an outpatient palliative medicine program fo...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Schroedl C,Yount S,Szmuilowicz E,Rosenberg SR,Kalhan R

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Rash is the most common side effect of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitors and negatively impacts quality of life. This single-institution study sought to explore how rash is currently managed outside a clinical trial setting and to further characterize general clinical aspects of this rash. MET...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Solomon BM,Jatoi A

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients and families can make informed decisions at the end-of-life if they have had discussions regarding their wishes, but this is not regularly done due to poor understanding of advance directives (AD). OBJECTIVE:The objective was to evaluate the effectiveness of an AD video to educate patients in both ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Toraya C

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Fatigue is one of the most frequent symptoms in patients with cancer. No adequate term in Spanish has been defined to describe the English concept of fatigue. AIM:To identify the most suitable Spanish words that define the concept of fatigue and to check psychometric characteristics. METHOD:Consensus wit...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Centeno C,Portela Tejedor MA,Carvajal A,San Miguel MT,Urdiroz J,Ramos L,De Santiago A

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although most hospice care occurs in the home, a growing number of patients utilize inpatient hospice settings. An inpatient hospice stay requires one or more transitions in care settings, although little is known about these transitions. OBJECTIVE/DESIGN:Using ethnographic methods, this study examined the ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Lysaght Hurley S,Strumpf N,Barg FK,Ersek M

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relief of adverse events induced by chemotherapy is an important issue for patients, especially those with a poor prognosis, such as with pancreatic cancer. There are no reports of the relationship between gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and chemotherapy, so we investigated the incidence of chemotherapy-induced...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Uwagawa T,Misawa T,Iida T,Sakamoto T,Gocho T,Wakiyama S,Hirohara S,Yanaga K

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:In advanced dementia, many difficult decisions may arise as the disease progresses, including whether to use feeding by tube. Several recent articles question the benefit of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube placement in persons with advanced dementia. However, patients with advanced dementia are...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Shega JW,Hougham GW,Stocking CB,Cox-Hayley D,Sachs GA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Congenital anomalies account for 20% of neonatal and infant deaths in the United States. Perinatal palliative care is a recent addition to palliative care and is meant to meet the needs of families who choose to continue a pregnancy affected by a life-limiting diagnosis. OBJECTIVE:To examine characteristics...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Wool C,Côté-Arsenault D,Perry Black B,Denney-Koelsch E,Kim S,Kavanaugh K

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constipation is common in advanced cancer. Despite this, clinicians' understanding of the underlying changes affecting the colon and the rest of the gastrointestinal tract are limited. Two case histories are used to illustrate the problems encountered when the current approaches to diagnosing and managing altered bowe...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Clark K,Urban K,Currow DC

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Achieving the best quality of life for patients and their families when a disease becomes progressive and no longer remains responsive to curative therapy is the primary goal of palliative care. A comprehensive care plan focusing on control of physical symptoms as well as psychological, social, and spiritual issues th...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Dalal S,Del Fabbro E,Bruera E

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Communication with patients and families is an essential component of high-quality care in serious illness. Small-group skills training can result in new communication behaviors, but past studies have used facilitators with extensive experience, raising concerns this is not scalable. OBJECTIVE:The objective...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bays AM,Engelberg RA,Back AL,Ford DW,Downey L,Shannon SE,Doorenbos AZ,Edlund B,Christianson P,Arnold RW,O'Connor K,Kross EK,Reinke LF,Cecere Feemster L,Fryer-Edwards K,Alexander SC,Tulsky JA,Curtis JR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Many deaths occur among persons without insurance coverage for hospice care. We examined the patient and agency characteristics associated with receiving unreimbursed hospice care in a national survey. RESULTS:We examined the receipt of unreimbursed care using the 1998 National Home and Hospice Care Survey ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Lorenz KA,Rosenfeld KE,Asch SM,Ettner SL

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Involvement of the palliative care service has potential for patient and family benefit in critically ill patients, regardless of etiology. Anecdotally, there is a lack of involvement of the palliative care (PC) service in the neuro-intensive care unit (neuro-I...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Tabibian BE,Salehani AA,Kuhn EN,Davis MC,Shank CD,Fisher Iii WS

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Key to high-quality care of dying hospice patients at home is whether the hospice provides adequate training so the caregiver can safely care for the patient. OBJECTIVE:The study objective was to develop and validate a survey of hospice training for caregivers to ensure safe, high-quality care in the home s...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： DiBiasio EL,Teno JM,Clark MA,Spence C,Casarett D

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIM:Palliative care services (PCS) are recommended to enhance quality of care for hospitalized patients. METHODS:We evaluated the attitudes of liver transplant (LT) providers and perceived barriers to PCS for their patients by conducting a web-based survey of intensive care unit nurses, postgraduate year 1 ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Beck KR,Pantilat SZ,O'Riordan DL,Peters MG

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND/AIMS:The optimal regimen of radiotherapy (RT) for bleeding from gastric cancer (GC) has not yet been established. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of low-dose, short-course palliative RT (LSP-RT) for bleeding from GC. MATERIAL AND METHODS:We reviewed the clinical data of 18 patients (26 ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Kawabata H,Uno K,Yasuda K,Yamashita M

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Exploring preferences for and barriers to quality end-of-life care is essential to improving care for dying individuals. Young adults often are involved or will be involved in decisions about the care of a loved one, and little research has examined opinions about end-of-life care among this population. RES...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Webb NM,Tucker D

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To identify issues affecting the quality of life (QoL) in women receiving palliative therapy for ovarian cancer. METHODS:Twenty women with advanced recurrent ovarian cancer were interviewed to establish what issues affect QoL. All patients were receiving palliative chemotherapy or other palliative therapy in t...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Houck K,Avis NE,Gallant JM,Fuller AF Jr,Goodman A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Additional evidence is needed regarding the impact of inpatient palliative care (IPC) on the quality of end-of-life care and downstream utilization. AIM:Examine the effects of IPC on quality of end-of-life care and acute and postacute care use in a large integrated system. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort desig...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Khang PS,Wang SE,Liu IA,Watson HL,Koyama SY,Huynh DN,Lee JS,Nguyen HQ

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:It is not known how often physicians use metaphors and analogies, or whether they improve patients' perceptions of their physicians' ability to communicate effectively. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine whether the use of metaphors and analogies in difficult conversations is associated w...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Casarett D,Pickard A,Fishman JM,Alexander SC,Arnold RM,Pollak KI,Tulsky JA

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:There have been no studies to date that examine physicians' decisions to withdraw life-sustaining treatment for patients based on their surrogates' financial gain. The authors' objective was to ascertain physician attitudes about withdrawing life-sustaining treatment when financial considerations are involved. ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Wastila LJ,Farber NJ

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has created an environment in which existence is more fragile and existential fears or terror rises in people. Objective: Managing existential terror calls for being mature about mortality, som...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Emanuel L,Solomon S,Fitchett G,Chochinov H,Handzo G,Schoppee T,Wilkie D

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many patients with cancer involving the respiratory system suffer from the frequent recurrence of significant, submassive hemoptysis, which may result in invasive procedures, hospital stays, and a reduction in quality of life. Currently, there are no widely accepted noninvasive therapeutic options. Few case ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Hankerson MJ,Raffetto B,Mallon WK,Shoenberger JM

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00