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:Philip J Larkin, Fliss Murtagh, Heather Richardson, Myra Bluebond Langner and Sheila Payne (2016) Collaboration: Securing a future for palliative care research. Palliative Medicine, September 2016 30:8 709-710, doi: 10.1177/0269216316661970.
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杂志文章,已发布勘误abstract::We determined the relationship between symptom severity and distress for multiple cancer symptoms, and examined patient demographic influences on severity and distress in advanced cancer. A Cochran-Armitage trend test determined whether symptom distress increased with severity. Chi-square, Fisher's exact test and logi...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216309356380
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Policy guidance and bioethical literature urge the involvement of adolescents in decisions about their healthcare. It is uncertain how roles and expectations of adolescents, parents and healthcare professionals influence decision-making and to what extent this is considered in guidance. AIMS:To identify rec...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216316648072
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) produced a previous undergraduate palliative medicine syllabus in 1992. This study describes the process of developing the new APM consensus syllabus against the background of changes in medical education and palliative medicine since 1992. The syllabus was derived by mean...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216308090769
更新日期:2008-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Informal carers play a key supportive role for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, caring can have a considerable impact on health and wellbeing. Carers may have unidentified support needs that could be a target for intervention. Literature on the support needs of informal carers ha...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216320939243
更新日期:2020-12-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Hospital is the most common place of cancer death but concerns regarding the quality of end-of-life care remain. AIM:Preliminary assessment of the effectiveness of the Liverpool Care Pathway on the quality of end-of-life care provided to adult cancer patients during their last week of life in hospital. DES...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1177/0269216313487569
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:It is often suggested that terminally ill patients favour end-of-life care at home. Yet, it is unclear how these preferences are formed, if the process is similar for patients and family caregivers, and if there are discrepancies between preferences for place of care and place of death. Understanding these n...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216319845794
更新日期:2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:To review current understanding of the knowledge and information needs of informal caregivers in palliative settings. DATA SOURCES:Seven electronic databases were searched for the period January 1994--November 2006: Medline, CINAHL, PsychINFO, Embase, Ovid, Zetoc and Pubmed using a meta-search engine (Metal...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216307085343
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The main focus of palliative care services is to improve patients' quality of life (QOL). The potential value of assessment of QOL in palliative care is being increasingly recognized. The McGill Quality of Life questionnaire (MQOL) is designed specifically for palliative care patients, but its cross-cultural validity ...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1191/026921601680419438
更新日期:2001-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This study looked at the efficacy of drug treatment in managing death rattle in a 30-bedded specialist palliative care unit. The study was conducted in two phases. In the first, patients received hyoscine hydrobromide as the antimuscarinic; glycopyrrolate was used in the second phase. The patients in the two phases we...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章
doi:10.1191/026921601678320313
更新日期:2001-07-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216310366064
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Care relationships are crucial in tailoring the end-of-life care of a person with intellectual disabilities (ID) to their needs. Yet, almost all studies on end-of-life care for people with ID have been conducted among caregivers. The views of people with ID about care relationships at the end of life have no...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216316640421
更新日期:2016-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The European Association for Palliative Care recommendation for starting morphine for cancer pain is dose titration with immediate release (IR) oral morphine given every 4 h with additionally doses for breakthrough pain. As part of a EU 6th framework programme to revise the guidelines we review the evidence regarding ...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216310386280
更新日期:2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study is to synthesize knowledge about the process of shared decision-making (SDM) in palliative care. Medline, EMBASE, CINAHL, PsychInfo, Web of Science were searched with core concepts: shared decisions, patient participation in decision-making, and palliative care. Titles and abstracts were screened...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216310389348
更新日期:2011-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Benzodiazepines are widely used in palliative care, but few studies have attempted to study their use. AIM:To determine the frequency and nature of benzodiazepine prescribing in a palliative care setting. METHOD:The notes of a consecutive series of 100 patients who had died or been discharged from the hosp...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1191/0269216306pm1151oa
更新日期:2006-06-01 00:00:00
abstract:INTRODUCTION:This research examines 2006 population-based data on persons who died in US nursing homes (NHs) and received hospice in the NH. METHODS:We compared dying persons characteristics and lengths of hospice stay in five US states between 1992 and 1996 and in 2006. We also compared characteristics of dying perso...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216310389349
更新日期:2011-06-01 00:00:00
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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/026921639400800108
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::This retrospective study examined the influence of a hospital palliative care team on the activity of a local hospice home care team over a four-year period from May 1989 to April 1993 in East Leeds. The increasing referral to death interval observed in home care patients over this period appears to be due to the pres...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/026921639400800308
更新日期:1994-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1191/0269216304pm920oa
更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Although anecdotal reports suggest nebulized lignocaine may help breathlessness in patients with cancer this has not been examined formally. We report a pilot study comparing nebulized lignocaine 100 mg and 200 mg with saline in six patients with cancer who were breathless at rest. Nebulized lignocaine was well tolera...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/026921639400800106
更新日期:1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Research Network of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) performed a survey of 3030 cancer patients from 143 palliative care centres in 21 European countries. The survey addressed pain intensity and the use of non-opioid analgesics, adjuvant analgesics and opioids. Patients were treated with analges...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1191/0269216305pm1054oa
更新日期:2005-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::As part of a large multicentre study on palliative care units in Italy, carried out between 1 January and 30 June 1995, we describe the place, circumstances and 'quality of death' of patients admitted to home palliative care. Data presented refer to 401 patients (67% of the 601 patients randomly selected for evaluatio...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1191/026921699669863369
更新日期:1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:We developed a new single point of access to integrated palliative care, respiratory medicine and physiotherapy: the breathlessness support service for patients with advanced disease and refractory breathlessness. This study aimed to describe patients' experiences of the service and identify the aspects valu...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216315600103
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Previous findings implicated rumination (recurrent dwelling on abstract concerns) in elevated psychological distress in palliative patients. We hypothesised that reducing rumination may be important in addressing psychological distress in palliative care. AIM:This study tested the prediction that a brief gu...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,随机对照试验
doi:10.1177/0269216311414757
更新日期:2012-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::A survey of all district health authorities in England was conducted in order to describe current patterns of needs assessment and contract setting for palliative care services. Outcome measures included the completion of needs assessments in the past five years, the type of data used for needs assessment, and recomme...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/026921639500900403
更新日期:1995-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:We have undertaken a systematically searched literature review using a realist logic of analysis to help synthesise the diverse range of literature available on hospice at home services. AIM:To find out in the existing literature what features of hospice at home models work best, for whom and under what cir...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216319867424
更新日期:2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Open pulmonary tuberculosis has been increasingly seen in HIV-infected patients in this hospice. Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis is a new and serious threat and two cases have occurred in our hospice in the past two years. This infection poses a health risk to staff, patients, relatives and volunteers. Palliative car...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/026921639701100607
更新日期:1997-11-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:In clinical practice the major role of opioid drugs is the management of malignant and nonmalignant pain. The primary aim of this study is to evaluate the trend in sales of four opioid analgesic drugs (codeine, tramadol, morphine, fentanyl), from wholesalers to community pharmacies, as an indicator of opioid...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi:10.1191/0269216305pm1002oa
更新日期:2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract:BACKGROUND:Death anxiety is important but understudied in palliative care. New self-report measurements have been developed, but their interpretation and clinical utility may not be evident. AIM:To inform our understanding of death anxiety in patients with advanced cancer by exploring the relationship between this sel...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216316628780
更新日期:2016-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::E-technology is increasingly used in oncology to obtain self-reported symptom assessment information from patients, although its potential to provide a clinical monitoring tool in palliative care is relatively unexplored in the UK. This study aimed to evaluate the support provided to lung cancer patients post palliati...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1177/0269216311399489
更新日期:2011-10-01 00:00:00
abstract:PURPOSE:In this literature review we evaluated the feasibility and clinimetric quality of quality-of-life (QoL) measurement instruments suitable for use in palliative care. METHODS:We conducted a systematic literature review to identify instruments measuring (at least one domain of) QoL. We selected articles that pres...
journal_title:Palliative medicine
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1177/0269216309346593
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00