Impact of home-based, patient-centered support for people with advanced illness in an open health system: A retrospective claims analysis of health expenditures, utilization, and quality of care at end of life.

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：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

authors： Costantini M,Pellegrini F,Di Leo S,Beccaro M,Rossi C,Flego G,Romoli V,Giannotti M,Morone P,Ivaldi GP,Cavallo L,Fusco F,Higginson IJ

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Liverpool Care Pathway was used in UK hospitals (late 1990s to July 2014) in an attempt to generate hospice-style high-quality end-of-life care in acute settings. Despite being widely established, there was limited research or contextual evidence regarding this approach or its impact. Growing criticism f...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Twigger S,Yardley SJ

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing emphasis is being placed on the need for advanced care planning (ACP) at the end of life. The Preferred Priorities for Care (PPC) document is a patient-held record promoted by the End of Life Care Strategy as an ACP tool to promote discussion and communication amongst patients, family and health care provid...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Preston H,Fineberg IC,Callagher P,Mitchell DJ

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Current end-of-life care policy and guidance recognises the important contribution of family carers, recommending that their needs should be assessed to support them in their caring role. How regular carer assessment is to be achieved is unclear, particularly because there is no evidence-based tool for direc...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ewing G,Grande G,National Association for Hospice at Home.

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：STUDY OBJECTIVE:The Italian Survey of the Dying of Cancer (ISDOC) was undertaken to evaluate the experiences of Italian people dying from cancer during their last three months of life in all settings of care. STUDY DESIGN:A two-stage probability sample was used to estimate end-of-life outcomes of about 160 000 Italian...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Costantini M,Beccaro M,Merlo F,ISDOC Study Group.

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Understanding current patterns of functional decline will inform patient care and has health service and resource implications. AIM:This prospective consecutive cohort study aims to map the shape of functional decline trajectories at the end of life by diagnosis. DESIGN:Changes in functional status were me...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Morgan DD,Tieman JJ,Allingham SF,Ekström MP,Connolly A,Currow DC

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe training in CBT techniques for 20 palliative care practitioners delivered as 12 days' equivalent teaching plus skills-building supervision over a six month period. Audiotapes of trainees' interactions with patients during their usual work were rated using a specially devised 'Cognitive First Aid' rating sc...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mannix KA,Blackburn IM,Garland A,Gracie J,Moorey S,Reid B,Standart S,Scott J

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with advanced cancer often have to make difficult decisions, such as how much to spend on moderately life-extending treatments. This and other end-of-life decisions are also influenced by their informal caregivers. Understanding the relative value that patients and their caregivers place on various ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Malhotra C,Farooqui MA,Kanesvaran R,Bilger M,Finkelstein E

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Constipation affects many patients receiving long-term opioid therapy for cancer pain. Little is known about the nature of psychological distress and the burden associated with this problem. This information may inform the development of effective treatment strategies and ameliorate distress. AIM:The object...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Dhingra L,Shuk E,Grossman B,Strada A,Wald E,Portenoy A,Knotkova H,Portenoy R

更新日期：2013-05-01 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

authors： Scott AG,Austin HE

更新日期：1994-01-01 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

authors： Lo RS,Woo J,Zhoc KC,Li CY,Yeo W,Johnson P,Mak Y,Lee J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, the experiences of out-of-hours general practitioners with regard to palliative care patients and their management are yet to be evaluated, since the new General Medical Services contract came into force. In 2007 the National Institute for Health Research highlighted the need to identify factors that improve ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Taubert M,Nelson A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gastroparesis is an under-recognised cause of refractory nausea and vomiting in patients with malignancy. The most common aetiologies are paraneoplastic and postsurgical dysmotility. There are little data on the efficacy of treatment to direct the management of patients with this symptom. We present a case a...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Franco M,Koulaeva E

更新日期：2014-07-01 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：: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:Nursing homes are becoming a common site where delivering end-of-life care for older adults. They often represent the junction between the curative and the palliative phase. AIM:To identify the elements that nursing home residents' family carers perceive as good end-of-life care and develop a conceptual mod...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gonella S,Basso I,De Marinis MG,Campagna S,Di Giulio P

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When a person is diagnosed with a severe disease, it seems plausible that existential questions and death anxiety are easily intensified. The aims of this study were to explore whether this is the case, to what extent patients and their next of kin experience death anxiety, and how these experiences are expressed. Fol...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Adelbratt S,Strang P

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bisphosphonates and denosumab are well-established therapies to reduce the frequency and severity of skeletal-related events in patients with bone metastasis. However, the analgesic effect of these medications on bone pain is uncertain. AIM:To identify, critically appraise and synthesize existing evidence t...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Porta-Sales J,Garzón-Rodríguez C,Llorens-Torromé S,Brunelli C,Pigni A,Caraceni A

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a qualitative study exploring the meaning of 'dignity' to patients, relatives and professionals. It examines the impact of advanced illness and treatment and the issues pertinent to caring for dignity. Depth interviews were conducted with eight patients, six relatives and seven members of the multi...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Enes SP

更新日期：2003-04-01 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:Intrathecal drug delivery is known to reduce pain in patients where conventional systemic analgesia has been ineffective or intolerable. However, there is little information regarding the effects of intrathecal drug delivery on quality of life and function in those with advanced, incurable cancer. AIM:Retro...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Patel N,Huddart M,Makins H,Mitchell T,Gibbins JL,Graterol J,Stevens D,Perkins P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

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

authors： Kirkova J,Walsh D,Rybicki L,Davis MP,Aktas A,Tao Jin,Homsi J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：: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. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors：

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:No systematic meta-analysis is available on the prevalence of cancer patients' accurate prognostic awareness and differences in accurate prognostic awareness by publication year, region, assessment method, and service received. AIM:To examine the prevalence of advanced/terminal cancer patients' accurate pro...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Chen CH,Kuo SC,Tang ST

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reviews a number of studies relating to religion and coping with chronic illness, emphasizing those aspects relevant to palliative care. After pointing out that religious and existential needs are common in chronic illness, a critical examination is made of those studies which purport to demonstrate associa...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Dein S,Stygall J

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This systematic review evaluates the evidence underpinning the provision of palliative day care services (PDS) to determine whether such services have a measurable effect on attendees' wellbeing. The majority of studies reviewed were qualitative and elicited individual perceptions of the benefits PDS. Although it was ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Stevens E,Martin CR,White CA

更新日期：2011-03-01 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

authors： Klepstad P,Kaasa S,Cherny N,Hanks G,de Conno F,Research Steering Committee of the EAPC.

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the lack of clear benefits of feeding via gastrostomy tube in dementia patients, its use has been increasing. The views of health professionals, patients and their carers differ widely about the perceived benefits, which makes decision-making difficult and stressful. The palliative care approach of facilitatin...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Shah SH

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Delirium Observation Screening Scale (DOS) is designed to detect delirium by nurses' observations and has shown good psychometric properties. Its use in palliative care unit patients has not been studied. AIM:To determine diagnostic and concurrent validity, internal consistency, and user-friendliness of...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Detroyer E,Clement PM,Baeten N,Pennemans M,Decruyenaere M,Vandenberghe J,Menten J,Joosten E,Milisen K

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00