Implantable cardioverter defibrillator knowledge and end-of-life device deactivation: A cross-sectional survey.

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To explore the experiences of people involved in UK palliative care day services (PCDS) and identify the important outcomes of this service. METHODS:Focus groups were carried out separately with patients, informal carers and volunteers from four purposively selected palliative care day units and with day un...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Low J,Perry R,Wilkinson S

更新日期：2005-01-01 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: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：:Cyclizine is an antihistamine, which is frequently used to manage nausea and vomiting in cancer patients. Antihistamines can be drugs of misuse/abuse, and the article describes four cancer patients who developed such problems after receiving parenteral cyclizine within the inpatient unit of a cancer centre. The articl...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bailey F,Davies A

更新日期：2008-10-01 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

authors： Bennett M,Corcoran G

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Of deaths in high-income countries, 75% are caused by progressive advanced chronic conditions. Palliative care needs to be extended from terminal cancer to these patients. However, direct measurement of the prevalence of people in need of palliative care in the population has not been attempted. AIM:Determi...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gómez-Batiste X,Martínez-Muñoz M,Blay C,Amblàs J,Vila L,Costa X,Espaulella J,Espinosa J,Constante C,Mitchell GK

更新日期：2014-04-01 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

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

authors： Back IN,Jenkins K,Blower A,Beckhelling J

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the right for patients of all diagnoses to be in receipt of palliative care from an early point in the diagnosis of a life-limiting condition is now enshrined in policy in a number of countries and increased emphasis is placed upon the role of generalist palliative care. However, little is known as to how th...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Gott M,Seymour J,Ingleton C,Gardiner C,Bellamy G

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire (MQOL) is a widely used tool that has been specifically developed to measure the quality of life of patients facing a life-threatening illness. Preferably, a self-report instrument has an equal number of items worded positively and negatively. However, all the psychological sca...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Henry M,Huang LN,Ferland MK,Mitchell J,Cohen SR

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Little is known about the attitudes of healthcare professional students' perceived competence and confidence in treating those with dementia who are at the end of life. AIM:To explore the attitudes of final year medical, nursing and pharmacy students towards people with dementia and to evaluate their percei...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： De Witt Jansen B,Weckmann M,Nguyen CM,Parsons C,Hughes CM

更新日期：2013-10-01 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

authors： Day E,Jones L,Langner R,Bluebond-Langner M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To be able to distinguish end-stage palliative sedation from euthanasia without having to refer to intentions that are difficult to verify, physicians must be able to manage palliative sedation appropriately (i.e., see that death is not hastened as a result of disproportionate medication). In the present study, we ass...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Reuzel RP,Hasselaar GJ,Vissers KC,van der Wilt GJ,Groenewoud JM,Crul BJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：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：:Little is known about the lived health-care experiences of persons living with palliative stage Parkinson's disease and the family members who care for them. An exploratory phenomenological investigation was adopted to understand participant's lived health-care experiences and the needs flowing from them. Three family...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Giles S,Miyasaki J

更新日期：2009-03-01 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：BACKGROUND:Informal caregivers of people with motor neurone disease (MND) take on an extensive role. Caregivers are at increased risk of experiencing psychological distress and burden, yet, there is a lack of intervention programmes to support them. AIM:The aim of this study was to investigate the feasibility and acce...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ugalde A,Mathers S,Hennessy Anderson N,Hudson P,Orellana L,Gluyas C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clinical pathways aim to ensure that individuals receive appropriate evidence-based care and interventions, with the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient focusing on end of life. However, controlled studies of the Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient, particularly outside of cancer settings, ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Brännström M,Fürst CJ,Tishelman C,Petzold M,Lindqvist O

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The primary goal of palliative care is to optimize the quality of life (QOL) of people living with a life-threatening illness and that of their families. While there have been important advances in measurement of the QOL of palliative care patients, little attention has been paid to the QOL of their carers (...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Cohen R,Leis AM,Kuhl D,Charbonneau C,Ritvo P,Ashbury FD

更新日期：2006-12-01 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：:The factors related to admission of patients with terminal cancer who had been referred to a reputable home care service were examined in 415 patients referred in a two-year period and in a prospective study of a randomized one in three sample of the 232 adults still alive one week after referral, who were able to con...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Hinton J

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:This study reports UK doctors' opinions about legalisation of medically assisted dying (euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide), comparing this with the UK general public. A postal survey of 3733 UK medical practitioners was done. The majority of UK doctors are opposed to legalisation, contrasting with the UK gener...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Seale C

更新日期：2009-04-01 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：BACKGROUND:There is increasing demand for primary care practitioners to play a key role in palliative care delivery. Given this, it is important to understand their perceptions of the barriers and enablers to optimal palliative care, and how commonly these are experienced. AIM:To explore the type and prevalence of bar...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Carey ML,Zucca AC,Freund MA,Bryant J,Herrmann A,Roberts BJ

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comprehensive palliative care programs are often implemented on a community level, and to evaluate such interventions, randomization by cluster (community) may be the only feasible method. In trials randomizing individual subjects, the importance of proper concealment has been stressed. In cluster randomized trials, h...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Jordhøy MS,Fayers PM,Ahlner-Elmqvist M,Kaasa S

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between opioid dose, dantron dose, bowel function and physical functioning (measured with the modified Barthel Index) was determined in a sample of 50 inpatients with advanced cancer. Data were collected prospectively from chart review and patient interviews one week after admission to allow for proto...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bennett M,Cresswell H

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient misunderstandings about prognosis may be related to lack of communication. AIM:This study aimed to examine prognosis discussions held with hospitalized patients for whom palliative care consultations were requested, and if prognosis discussions did not occur, to explore why not. DESIGN:This was a s...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Chang A,Datta-Barua I,McLaughlin B,Daly B

更新日期：2014-04-01 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