Research methods priorities in geriatric palliative medicine.

abstract：: Background: This study examines communication profiles and associated attitudes toward health care professionals in interviews with family caregivers of hospitalized patients with confirmed multidrug-resistant organisms (e.g., methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Peters J,Dykes N,Heckel M,Ostgathe C

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：UNLABELLED:Abstract Background: Despite parent and physician reports of inadequate skill development, there are few guidelines for training the pediatric care team in sharing life-altering information (SLAI), i.e., "breaking bad news." The necessary skills for SLAI differ between pediatric and adult medical environment...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Wolfe AD,Frierdich SA,Wish J,Kilgore-Carlin J,Plotkin JA,Hoover-Regan M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although strong evidence supports early palliative care (PC) and consistent advance care planning (ACP) for patients with poor-prognosis Stage IV solid tumors, best practice standards have not been established for hematologic malignancies. Our primary objective was to describe current access to specialty PC ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Freeman AT,Wood WA,Fox A,Hanson LC

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Residents struggle with advance care planning (ACP) discussions in the inpatient setting, and may not be aware of newer models for ACP that stress the importance of giving prognostic information and making a recommendation about cardiopulmonary resuscitation to patients and families. METHODS:A controlled st...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Jacobsen J,Robinson E,Jackson VA,Meigs JB,Billings JA

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper provides an evidence-based review of the principles underlying palliative care for heart failure (HF), including its pathogenesis, staging, assessment, prognosis, and treatment. Approaches to advanced care planning, symptom management, hospice eligibility, home inotropic infusions, device management and imp...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Stuart B

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Family members of intensive care unit (ICU) patients want to be involved in decision making, but they may not be best served by being placed in the position of having to solve problems for which they lack knowledge and skills. This case report presents an exemplar family meeting in the ICU led by a palliative care spe...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Adams J,Bailey DE Jr,Anderson RA,Galanos AN

更新日期：2013-03-01 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:End-of-life care has become a priority in medical education internationally. A previous study of hospice patients and staff regarding medical students teaching in a hospice showed positive responses from patients and hospice staff. However concern was expressed by some staff regarding medical students' welfa...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Gadoud A,Adcock Y,Jones L,Koon S,Johnson M

更新日期：2013-09-01 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:Accurate prognostication of the trajectory of an illness provides multiple benefits in end-of-life care. Prognostic information facilitates more realistic decision making regarding ongoing treatment, fosters risk-benefit considerations of specific interventions, and contributes to appropriate utilization of ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Head B,Ritchie CS,Smoot TM

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Critical care nurse communication training has largely been limited to didactic materials, interactive training for nurse supervisors, or brief participatory learning programs within the context of comprehensive end-of-life care educational seminars. Preliminary evidence suggests that an interactive approach...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Krimshtein NS,Luhrs CA,Puntillo KA,Cortez TB,Livote EE,Penrod JD,Nelson JE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:For the better part of 100 years, acetaminophen (or paracetamol as it is known outside of the United States) has been a common first-line analgesic in pediatrics and is typically well tolerated with minimal side effects. Its use as an anti-pyretic is also well-documented and thus it is used broadly for sympt...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Marks AD,Keefer P,Saul D

更新日期：2013-12-01 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：INTRODUCTION:In geriatrics, most risk factors associated with falls have been identified and management strategies developed accordingly. This is not the case in palliative care. The incidence rate of falls, the consequences related to falls, and other related factors were determined in elderly cancer patients hospital...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Pautex S,Herrmann FR,Zulian GB

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After prenatal diagnosis of lethal fetal abnormality (LFA), some couples choose to continue the pregnancy rather than opt for termination of the pregnancy. This may result in the requirement for neonatal palliative care, which in France is prescribed by the Leonetti Law. These rare situations raise various q...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Tosello B,Dany L,Gire C,Bétrémieux P,Vriet-Ndour ME,Le Coz P,D'Ercole C,Siméoni U,Einaudi MA

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with advanced pancreatic cancer is presented to demonstrate the clinical challenge of diagnosing depression in palliative care. The conundrum related to the relative roles of somatic and psychological symptoms in screening or diagnosing depression in these patients is illustrated and discussed. There is no c...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Pereira J,Bruera E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Heart failure (HF) and palliative care (PC) organizations recommend early PC to improve the quality of life of patients living with HF. OBJECTIVE:We conducted a two-phase formative evaluation study to translate a cancer-focused concurrent PC intervention into one that would be appropriate for rural-dwelling...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Dionne-Odom JN,Kono A,Frost J,Jackson L,Ellis D,Ahmed A,Azuero A,Bakitas M

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is commonly written that more patients wish to die at home than currently achieve this. However, the evidence for preferences for place of terminal care and death has not been systematically reviewed. AIM:To carry out a systematic literature review of the preferences for place of care and death among adv...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Higginson IJ,Sen-Gupta GJ

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The oral food intake of terminally ill cancer patients is known to gradually decrease, but there are few reports about how oral intake changes around the terminal stage. It is important to clarify changes in oral food intake, as such changes affect the support and care of terminally ill cancer patients. OBJ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Ohno T,Tamura F,Kikutani T,Morita T,Sumi Y

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: The lack of consumer knowledge and misconception of services could impede requests for and acceptance of palliative care. YouTube has been widely used for health information dissemination. Objective: To explore the ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Liu M,Cardenas V,Zhu Y,Enguidanos S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:End-stage renal disease (ESRD) affects nearly 1400 new children each year in the United States. Morbidity and mortality rates remain high for pediatric patients with ESRD, including those that have received a renal transplant. OBJECTIVE:To better understand ESRD patients referred to palliative care, includi...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Keefer P,Lehmann K,Shanley M,Woloszyk T,Khang E,Luckritz K,Saul D

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Diabetes is increasingly prevalent globally, including in palliative care. Guidelines vary as to the ideal glycemic goals for patients near the end of life. The relationship between hyperglycemia and attributable symptoms late in life remains ill defined. ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Kleinig PA,Woodman RJ,Currow DC

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To continuously assess overall quality of life (QOL) and disease progression in patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at different stages of the disease and compare the results between these two variables. DESIGN/SUBJECTS:Twenty-six patients with ALS were interviewed with a questionnaire to asse...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Nygren I,Askmark H

更新日期：2006-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:Outpatient palliative care (PC) has been shown to positively impact quality of life and decrease healthcare utilization, but there are limited data describing what activities render these benefits. OBJECTIVE:Describe the topics addressed by an outpatient PC team during scheduled visits. DESIGN:Longitudinal...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bischoff K,Yang E,Kojimoto G,Shepard Lopez N,Holland S,Calton B,Adkins SH,Cheng S,Miller BJ,Rabow MW

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The role of emergent palliative surgery in the setting of advanced malignancy remains a subject of controversy. OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to identify clinical predictors of outcome in patients with cancer who undergo nonelective abdominal surgery. SETTING/SUBJECTS:Individuals who underwent ur...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Roses RE,Tzeng CW,Ross MI,Fournier KF,Abbott DE,You YN

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Pharmacovigilance studies in hospice/palliative care provide extra information to improve medication safety. Combination controlled release oxycodone-naloxone offers an alternative opioid with less risk of opioid-induced constipation. O...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Clark K,Byrne PG,Hunt J,Brown L,Rowett D,Watts G,Lovell M,Currow DC

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:To summarize evidence on conservative, nondialytic management of end-stage renal disease regarding 1) prognosis and 2) symptom burden and quality of life (QOL). METHODS:Medline, Cinahl, and Cochrane were searched for records indexed prior to March 1, 2011. Bibliographies of articles and abstracts from recent m...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： O'Connor NR,Kumar P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with severe acute brain injury (SABI) raise important palliative care considerations associated with sudden devastating injury and uncertain prognosis. OBJECTIVE:The goal of this study was to explore how family members, nurses, and physicians experience the palliative and supportive care needs of p...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Schutz RE,Coats HL,Engelberg RA,Curtis JR,Creutzfeldt CJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00