Patients' preferences in palliative care: A systematic mixed studies review.

abstract：:This paper reviews the experience of managing 31 patients with severe dysphagia in motor neurone disease. Thirteen patients were fed nasogastrically and the remaining 18 were managed conservatively without a nasogastric tube. The introduction of nasogastric feeding led to the development of new problems in some patien...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Scott AG,Austin HE

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Even though depression has serious and wide-ranging effects on outcomes in palliative care, errors in the identification of depressed patients are common. OBJECTIVES:To examine the clinical validity of widely publicised one- and two-question screening tools for depression in two palliative care settings. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Robinson JA,Crawford GB

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper we review the challenges facing the delivery of research in end-of-life care in the UK and internationally as health policies begin to focus on improving care. These include the problems of terminology in this field of enquiry and the lack of emphasis on clinical studies relating to the medical aspects o...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bennett MI,Davies EA,Higginson IJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients approaching death often have a decreasing oral intake, which can be distressing for relatives. Little is known about the relatives' experiences with and perceptions of oral intake at the end of life. AIM:This study aims to contribute to a more thorough understanding of relatives' concerns regarding...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Raijmakers NJ,Clark JB,van Zuylen L,Allan SG,van der Heide A

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Separate accounts of care were recorded weekly from staff, patients and relatives in a randomised sample of patients with terminal cancer referred to a home care service with readily available beds. Various services were involved but nurses made most contacts, 3.0 visits and 2.4 phone calls weekly, rising sharply in t...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Hinton J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to analyze French general practitioners' attitudes toward prescribing opiate painkillers for dying patients and compare them with their attitudes toward making frequent home visits. One hundred and fifteen general practitioners indicated the acceptability of prescribing opiates in 48 scena...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mas C,Albaret MC,Sorum PC,Mullet E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronically homeless individuals have high rates of hospitalization and death, and they may benefit from the completion of advance directives. AIM:To determine the rate of advance directive completion using a counselor-guided intervention, identify characteristics associated with advance directive completio...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Leung AK,Nayyar D,Sachdeva M,Song J,Hwang SW

更新日期：2015-09-01 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

abstract：:In an era of ever increasing emphasis on cost-effectiveness of health care, and with the introduction of the internal market, there is now an urgent need for information on the costs and quality of palliative care. This paper highlights the complexities involved in acquiring and measuring such information and discusse...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Tierney AJ,Sladden S,Anderson J,King M,Lapsley I,Llewellyn S

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Specialist palliative care (SPC) services in Ireland are well developed by international standards. However, standardized information on all patients of SPC services is not collected so the proportion of patients seen with a noncancer diagnosis is just an estimate at 5%. AIMS:To describe Irish SPC services'...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： O'Leary N,Tiernan E

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parenteral administration of mixtures of morphine with other drugs has become common practice in palliative care. Such mixtures are sometimes found to be incompatible but compatibility data are scarce. An attempt was made to develop a quick and simple investigation strategy to obtain complete information on the compat...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Vermeire A,Remon JP,Schrijvers D,Demeulenaere P

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:This retrospective clinical study reports on the experience of palliative venting gastrostomy (PVG) in an integrated acute teaching hospital and hospice-based palliative care service over a seven-year period (1989-97). PVG was performed for 51 patients with refractory nausea and vomiting resulting from varying degrees...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Brooksbank MA,Game PA,Ashby MA

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quality of research, and the resulting quality of evidence available to guide palliative care, is dependent on the ethical decisions underpinning its design, conduct and report. Whilst much has been published debating the ethics of palliative care research, an assessment of the quality and synthesis of the central...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Duke S,Bennett H

更新日期：2010-03-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To summarize available literature containing data on the treatment of depression in palliative care patients. METHODS:A systematic review was conducted using extensive electronic databases and hand searches. All randomized controlled trials (RCTs) of interventions for depression in patients with advanced dis...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ly KL,Chidgey J,Addington-Hall J,Hotopf M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Population ageing will lead to more deaths with an uncertain trajectory. Identifying patients at risk of dying could facilitate more effective care planning. AIM:To determine whether screening for likely death within 12 months is more effective using screening tools or intuition. DESIGN:Randomised controll...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mitchell GK,Senior HE,Rhee JJ,Ware RS,Young S,Teo PC,Murray S,Boyd K,Clayton JM

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Access to palliative care (PC) is a major need worldwide. Using hospital charts of all patients who died over one year (April 2008-March 2009) in two mid-sized hospitals of a large Canadian city, similar in size and function and operated by the same administrative group, this study examined which patients who could be...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Cohen J,Wilson DM,Thurston A,MacLeod R,Deliens L

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The perspectives of patients and relatives are important in the improvement of the quality of health care. However, the quality of end-of-life care has not been systematically evaluated in Scandinavia. AIM:To develop or adapt and subsequently validate a questionnaire assessing the quality of end-of-life car...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ross L,Neergaard MA,Petersen MA,Groenvold M

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Intrathecal drug delivery is known to be effective in alleviating cancer pain in patients for whom the conventional World Health Organization approach has proved insufficient. A multidisciplinary interventional cancer pain service was established in the West of Scotland in 2008 with the aim of providing a sa...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mitchell A,McGhie J,Owen M,McGinn G

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective of this study is to examine physicians' practices regarding information disclosure to terminally ill patients and to their relatives, without informing the patient. A questionnaire had been sent to a random sample of 3014 Belgian physicians from different specialties frequently involved in end-of-life care. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Michiels E,Deschepper R,Bilsen J,Mortier F,Deliens L

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials in palliative care involve multiple issues relating to patient populations, interventions and endpoints. Careful data collection and analysis of variables are vital for good clinical research in this complex area. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mazzocato C,Sweeney C,Bruera E

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to further validate a novel instrument to measure satisfaction with end-of-life care, called the Canadian Health Care Evaluation Project (CANHELP) questionnaire. Data were collected by a cross-sectional survey of patients who had advanced, life-limiting illnesses and their family caregive...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Heyland DK,Cook DJ,Rocker GM,Dodek PM,Kutsogiannis DJ,Skrobik Y,Jiang X,Day AG,Cohen SR,Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network.

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The most commonly encountered clinical conditions presenting with cognitive failure (CF) are delirium, dementia and amnestic disorders. Of these, delirium is probably the most prevalent in palliative care, and it is potentially reversible. Thus, improvement in diagnostics seems warranted. The objectives of this review...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Hjermstad M,Loge JH,Kaasa S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphine, the recommended drug for the management of moderate to severe cancer pain, is metabolized predominantly to the glucuronides morphine-6-glucuronide (M6G) and morphine-3-glucuronide (M3G). The quantitative clinical importance of these metabolites following the administration of oral morphine is unclear. This s...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Quigley C,Joel S,Patel N,Baksh A,Slevin M

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphosphonates are the treatment of choice for hypercalcaemia of malignancy (HCM) but there is no consensus regarding which drug or dose should be given. We designed a systematic review to investigate the efficacy of bisphosphonates in the treatment of HCM. METHODS:We identified randomized controlled trial...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Saunders Y,Ross JR,Broadley KE,Edmonds PM,Patel S,Steering Group.

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is widespread agreement that the families of hospice patients need to be prepared for the final days of life, yet current practices preparing families are not well described. Examining the gap between family needs and current practice will inform the development of effective preparatory interventions. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Kehl KA

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：:There is growing evidence that the palliative care needs of certain people, such as those from minority ethnic groups, are not being met. The aim of this study was to investigate whether place of death from cancer differs between ethnic groups. A total of 101,516 patients resident in South East England and who died fr...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Coupland VH,Madden P,Jack RH,Møller H,Davies EA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Telehealth technologies are an emerging resource opening up the possibility of greater support if they have utility for patients, carers and clinicians. They may also help to meet health systems' imperatives for improved service delivery within current budgets. Clinicians' experiences and attitudes play a ke...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Collier A,Morgan DD,Swetenham K,To TH,Currow DC,Tieman JJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00