Experience of Low-Dose, Short-Course Palliative Radiotherapy for Bleeding from Unresectable Gastric Cancer.

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：BACKGROUND:Surrogates and clinicians often make treatment decisions for decisionally incapacitated patients with limited knowledge of their preferences. This study examined patients' life-sustaining treatment preferences to facilitate advance care planning discussions and surrogate decision making. METHODS:We intervie...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Pearlman RA,Cain KC,Starks H,Cole WG,Uhlmann RF,Patrick DL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evidence base to support palliative care clinical practice is inadequate and opportunities to improve the palliative care evidence base remain despite the field's rapid growth. OBJECTIVE:To examine current NIH funding of palliative medicine research, changes since our 2013 report, and trends since our 2...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Brown E,Morrison RS,Gelfman LP

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Many proponents of hospice care believe that this service is underutilized. OBJECTIVE:To determine physicians' perceptions of hospice utilization and of their own hospice referral pattern; their perceived and actual knowledge of appropriate hospice referral diagnoses; and perceived barriers to hospice ref...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Brickner L,Scannell K,Marquet S,Ackerson L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Most medical schools are remiss in preparing physicians in end-of-life communication skills. As a result, many residents are uncomfortable with approaching the patient, have not developed the skills required to discuss the patients' wishes, and avoid end-of-life conversations. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate an edu...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Furman CD,Head B,Lazor B,Casper B,Ritchie CS

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：:Caring for a child with a potentially fatal medical condition is a challenge for parents or caregivers. The ability to measure parental self-efficacy in pediatric palliative care may be an important component of targeting supportive services that address individual needs of families. Therefore, the goal was to develop...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bingen K,Kupst MJ,Himelstein B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Systematic measurement of conversational features in the natural clinical setting is essential to better understand, disseminate, and incentivize high quality serious illness communication. Advances in machine-learning (ML) classification of human speech offer ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Durieux BN,Gramling CJ,Manukyan V,Eppstein MJ,Rizzo DM,Ross LM,Ryan AG,Niland MA,Clarfeld LA,Alexander SC,Gramling R

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:In February 2002, the palliative care team was established in Ikeda Municipal Hospital to improve palliative care. We investigated changes in the incidences of side effects related to opioids, and evaluated palliative care team activities. METHODS:Regarding inpatients for whom narcotics were prescribed in our ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Myotoku M,Nakanishi A,Kanematsu M,Sakaguchi N,Hashimoto N,Koyama F,Yamaguchi S,Ikeda K,Konishi H,Hirotani Y

更新日期：2010-04-01 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: Growing evidence suggests that pediatric palliative care (PPC) teams influence the care received by children and young adults with chronic, life-limiting illnesses. Little is known about how PPC involvement affects advance care planning (ACP) and circumstances ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Harmoney K,Mobley EM,Gilbertson-White S,Brogden NK,Benson RJ

更新日期：2019-12-01 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：BACKGROUND:Rehospitalizations are prevalent and associated with decreased quality of life. Although hospice has been advocated to reduce rehospitalizations, it is not known how area-level hospice utilization patterns affect rehospitalization risk. OBJECTIVES:The study objective was to examine the association between h...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Holden TR,Smith MA,Bartels CM,Campbell TC,Yu M,Kind AJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Despite the association between chronic pain and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), little is known about the longitudinal course of pain and PTSD during cancer treatment. Objectives: We examined the prevalence ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Sager ZS,Wachen JS,Naik AD,Moye J

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alzheimer's dementia and related dementias are incurable illnesses for which curative treatment currently does not exist, and the efficacy of remittive treatment is extremely limited. Persons with advanced dementia commonly develop fever and are at high risk for death. We preformed a systematic review of outcome follo...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Pinderhughes ST,Morrison RS

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: A broad consensus on the optimal structure, intensity, and timing of early specialist palliative care (SPC) intervention is lacking. Objective: To evaluate the benefit of an early and systematic palliative intervent...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Slama O,Pochop L,Sedo J,Svancara J,Sedova P,Svetlakova L,Demlova R,Vyzula R

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative chemotherapy is often administered to terminally ill cancer patients to relieve symptoms. Yet, unnecessary use of chemotherapy can worsen patients' quality of life due to treatment-related toxicities. Thus, accurate prediction of survival in terminally ill patients can help clinicians decide on th...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Ng T,Chew L,Yap CW

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Opioid dose escalation may cause hyperalgesia, mediated by the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) pathway. Methadone is an atypical opioid that inhibits hyperalgesia through NMDA-blockade, especially at low doses. OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the efficacy of using very-low-dose methadone as the sole long-acting opioid ag...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Salpeter SR,Buckley JS,Bruera E

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In 2002, Means to a Better End: A Report of Dying in America Today, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) report, was issued that included grades for each state on their ability to provide end-of-life care. Most states, including California, rated as mediocre and the report called for extensive efforts at ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Virani R,Malloy P,Ferrell BR,Kelly K

更新日期：2008-09-01 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:Few studies have focused on men as caregivers at the end-of-life. The objective of this secondary data analysis was to examine the experiences of men involved in end-of-life caregiving, focusing on caregiver strain. METHODS:We used a random sample of Oregon death certificates to telephone survey family care...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Fromme EK,Drach LL,Tolle SW,Ebert P,Miller P,Perrin N,Tilden VP

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Inpatient palliative consultation are generally provided to seriously ill hospitalized patients with the intent to alleviate pain and suffering and develop a plan of care for the patient. Although numerous benefits of this service have been documented, little is known about hospital readmission rates and fac...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Enguidanos S,Vesper E,Lorenz K

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A faculty development course was offered at the Medical College of Wisconsin to bolster existing medical student and housestaff training opportunities in palliative medicine. An 8- week, 12 contact-hour course was designed to provide up to 15 faculty members training in the practice and teaching of end-of-life care. F...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Weissman DE

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:End-of-life care quality deficiencies have in part been linked to inadequate physician skill in the technical and communication domains of palliative care. Yet few studies have examined physicians' perspectives regarding their experiences caring for patients approaching the end of life. OBJECTIVE:To underst...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Winzelberg GS,Patrick DL,Rhodes LA,Deyo RA

更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Specialized home-based palliative care (HPC) services aim at reducing the number of visits to emergency departments (EDs) and hospitalizations at end of life. In addition, it offers patients the possibility to die at home. Objective: ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Bergqvist J,Ljunggren G

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Cancer pain can remain refractory despite escalating opioids and adjuvants. Systemic Lidocaine is an option, but current approaches are hospital centered. While advantageous in advanced cancer, evidence is lacking for parenteral Lidocaine use in community-based...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Chong PH,Yeo ZZ

更新日期：2020-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Delivery of health services in the province of Ontario is organized into 14 Local Health Integration Networks (LHINs), and further into 76 LHIN subregions, making these a natural unit of comparing the regional differences in palliative care receipt among decede...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Panarella M,Saarela O,Esensoy AV,Jakda A,Liu ZA

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the composition, availability, integration, communication, perceived barriers, and work load of pediatric palliative care (PPC) providers serving children and adolescents with cancer. OBJECTIVE:To summarize the structure and services of programs to better understand successes and gaps ...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Weaver MS,Rosenberg AR,Tager J,Wichman CS,Wiener L

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：: Background: Despite positive outcomes associated with specialist palliative care (PC) in diverse medical populations, little research has investigated specialist PC in surgical ones. Although cancer surgery is predominantly safe, operations can be extensive and unpredictab...

journal_title：Journal of palliative medicine

authors： Aslakson RA,Chandrashekaran SV,Rickerson E,Fahy BN,Johnston FM,Miller JA,Conca-Cheng A,Wang S,Morris AM,Lorenz K,Temel JS,Smith TJ

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00