End-of-life decision-making confidence in surrogates of African-American dialysis patients is overly optimistic.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Methadone is an attractive medication for treating children with advanced cancer with pain as it is the only long-acting opioid available as a liquid. However, it is not frequently used due to concerns about potential toxicities and side effects. OBJECTIVE:Evaluate the efficacy and safety of methadone as th...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Madden K,Mills S,Dibaj S,Williams JL,Liu D,Bruera E

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Psychiatric research in the 1950s and 1960s showed potential for psychedelic medications to markedly alleviate depression and suffering associated with terminal illness. More recent published studies have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine when administered in a medically ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Byock I

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Actions in preparation for death and talks about death between advanced cancer patients and their families are considered essential to achieve a good death. However, little is known about the prevalence of such actions compared with talks and their association with bereaved families' psychological morbidity....

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Mori M,Yoshida S,Shiozaki M,Morita T,Baba M,Aoyama M,Kizawa Y,Tsuneto S,Shima Y,Miyashita M

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Bereavement programs provide institutions with an avenue for obtaining feedback from family members about their experiences during a patient's illness and end-of-life (EOL) period that can be used to improve both patient care and the care of bereaved individual...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Morris SE,Nayak MM,Block SD

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To examine the effect of patient-directed electronic messages on health care proxy (HCP) use. DESIGN:Randomized control trial using an electronic message intervention to encourage patients to complete an HCP document. SETTING:General medical practice at a large tertiary care teaching institution. PARTICIP...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Cintron A,Phillips R,Hamel MB

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Improving access to palliative care is an important priority for hospitals as they strive to provide the best care and quality of life for their patients. Even in hospitals with longstanding palliative care programs, only a small proportion of patients with life-threatening illnesses receive palliative care ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bernacki RE,Ko DN,Higgins P,Whitlock SN,Cullinan A,Wilson R,Jackson V,Dahlin C,Abrahm J,Mort E,Scheer KN,Block S,Billings JA

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:The majority of dying patients do not have access to necessary drugs to alleviate their most common symptoms, despite evidence of drug efficacy. Our aim was to explore the degree of consensus about appropriate pharmacological treatment for common symptoms in the last days of life for patients with cancer, among...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Lindqvist O,Lundquist G,Dickman A,Bükki J,Lunder U,Hagelin CL,Rasmussen BH,Sauter S,Tishelman C,Fürst CJ,OPCARE9.

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2011 the Palliative Care Funding Review highlighted concerns about the funding, provision, and quality of care at the end of life. Two years on, an independent review of the Liverpool Care Pathway--prompted by a storm of negative media coverage--has raised concerns around a lack of funding, availability o...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Kinghorn P,Coast J

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Seriously ill older adults in the emergency department (ED) may benefit from palliative care referral, yet little is known about how to identify these patients. OBJECTIVES:To assess the performance and determine the acceptability of a content-validated palliative care screening tool. DESIGN:We surveyed Eme...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Ouchi K,Block SD,Schonberg MA,Jamieson ES,Aaronson EL,Pallin DJ,Tulsky JA,Schuur JD

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Families with young children often struggle to talk about and cope with a parent's life-threatening illness and potential death. Adult interdisciplinary palliative medicine teams often feel unprepared to facilitate the open communication with these children that has been shown to reduce anxiety, depression, ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Sutter C,Reid T

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For most families, the preferred location of death for their child is home, yet most children still die in the hospital. Many children with life-threatening and life-limiting illness are medically dependent on technology, and palliative transport can serve as a bridge from the intensive care unit to the family's home ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Thorvilson MJ,Manahan AJ,Schiltz BM,Collura CA

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Entrustable professional activities (EPAs) are routine tasks considered essential to a professional practice. An EPA can serve as a performance-based outcome that a clinical supervisor would progressively entrust a learner to perform. OBJECTIVE:Our aim was to identify, develop, and validate a set of EPAs fo...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Myers J,Krueger P,Webster F,Downar J,Herx L,Jeney C,Oneschuk D,Schroder C,Sirianni G,Seccareccia D,Tucker T,Taniguchi A

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Antibiotic administration is frequent in terminal patients with cancer, yet the effects on survival are still under debate. OBJECTIVE:The aim of this study was to examine the status of infection and the benefit/burden of antibiotic administration on the survival of terminal patients with cancer with infecti...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Chih AH,Lee LT,Cheng SY,Yao CA,Hu WY,Chen CY,Chiu TY

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cancer and its treatment can significantly affect appearance and body integrity. A number of studies have explored the impact of cancer and its treatment on body image, primarily in head and neck and breast cancer. The aim of this pilot study was to examine the construct of body image dissatisfaction and its...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Rhondali W,Chisholm GB,Filbet M,Kang DH,Hui D,Cororve Fingeret M,Bruera E

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Although there is growing evidence that close reading of literature and reflective writing can improve providers' appreciation of the patient experience, foster physician development, and combat burnout, there has been less work on the experience of reading lit...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Segar N,Sullivan J,Litwin K,Hauser J

更新日期：2020-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical experience and a limited number of studies suggest that a cancer diagnosis confers a high risk of accidental falls. The negative sequelae of falls in older persons are well documented; risk factors for falls in this population have been extensively investigated and evidence for the efficacy of inter...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Stone CA,Lawlor PG,Kenny RA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To clarify physician- and nurse-reported effects of intravenous hydration therapy on symptoms of terminally ill patients with cancer. METHODS:A cross-sectional questionnaire survey of Japanese physicians and nurses. The respondents were requested to report their clinical observations about improvement or deter...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Morita T,Shima Y,Miyashita M,Kimura R,Adachi I,Japan Palliative Oncology Study Group.

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The provision of complementary therapy in palliative care is rare in Canadian hospitals. An Ontario hospital's palliative care unit developed a complementary therapy pilot project within the interdisciplinary team to explore potential benefits. Massage, aromatherapy, Reiki, and Therapeutic Touch™ were provid...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Berger L,Tavares M,Berger B

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative care unit (PCU) beds are a limited resource in Canada, so PCU admission is restricted to patients with a short prognosis. Anecdotally, PCUs further restrict admission of patients with noncancer diagnoses out of fear that they will "oversurvive" and reduce bed availability. This raises concerns tha...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Downar J,Chou YC,Ouellet D,La Delfa I,Blacker S,Bennett M,Petch C,Cheng SM

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Objective: Characterize hospice staff practices and perspectives on discussing end-of-life care preferences with patients/families, including those desiring intensive treatment and/or full code. Background: Patients in the Unit...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Dressler G,Garrett SB,Hunt LJ,Thompson N,Mahoney K,Sudore RL,Ritchie CS,Harrison KL

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nurses play an integral role in providing care for patients with end of life (EOL) symptoms refractory to conventional treatments and that may necessitate palliative sedation (PS). A paucity of research on nurses' attitudes, knowledge, and experience with PS exists, despite nurses being instrumental in evalu...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Patel B,Gorawara-Bhat R,Levine S,Shega JW

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Palliative care is an evolving field with extensive studies demonstrating its benefits to patients, families, and the health care system. Many health systems have developed or are developing palliative care programs. The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians (CSPCP) is often asked to recommend how many pallia...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Henderson JD,Boyle A,Herx L,Alexiadis A,Barwich D,Connidis S,Lysecki D,Sinnarajah A

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The concept of hope in palliative care is an important and neglected area of research. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive degenerative motor neuron disease, offers an excellent opportunity to study this construct as the illness is virtually always fatal. Our research explored the meaning of...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Fanos JH,Gelinas DF,Foster RS,Postone N,Miller RG

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central pain syndromes are a complex, diverse group of clinical conditions that are poorly understood. We present a patient with progressive, debilitating central pain and co-existing mood disorders that was refractory to multimodal pharmacologic and nonpharmacologic therapies, but that ultimately responded to electro...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Strand JJ,Warner LL,Kamdar MM,Flaherty AW,Jackson VA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Regardless of the payer and the period studied the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medication use in the elderly ranged from 21% to 40%. OBJECTIVE:To look at potentially inappropriate prescribing in a group of Medicare+Choice beneficiaries in their last year of life (LYOL) in a large national manage...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Fahlman C,Lynn J,Finch M,Doberman D,Gabel J

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the volume and cost of inpatient care during the last year of life, there is a critical need to identify patterns of dying as a means of planning end-of-life care services, especially for the growing number of older persons who receive services from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). METHODS:A ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Duffy SA,Copeland LA,Hopp FP,Zalenski RJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purpose of report: Understanding the impact of palliative care interventions on intensive care unit (ICU) costs and utilization is critical for demonstrating the value of palliative care. Performing these economic assessments, however, can be challenging. The purpose of this special report is to highlight and discuss ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Khandelwal N,Brumback LC,Halpern SD,Coe NB,Brumback B,Curtis JR

更新日期：2017-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comprehensive information on end-of-life care in specialized palliative care settings is needed to assess the quality of care. OBJECTIVE:This study aimed to investigate medical treatments in the last two weeks of life in a national sample of palliative care units in Japan. DESIGN:Retrospective cohort study...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Sato K,Miyashita M,Morita T,Tsuneto S,Shima Y

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Young adults represent a minority in research; they are often considered too young or too old for participation. There is sparse information, especially in bereavement research, regarding how this age group perceives research participation and what they conside...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Udo C,Lövgren M,Sveen J,Bylund-Grenklo T,Alvariza A,Kreicbergs U

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00