Tools to help healthcare professionals recognize palliative care needs in patients with advanced heart failure: A systematic review.

abstract：:Existential distress has been recognized as a source of suffering for oncology patients. This study focusses on existential issues and coping mechanisms of a unique culturally diverse Jewish/Middle Eastern oncology population. A qualitative assessment of 40 patients with advanced cancer was undertaken through an inter...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Blinderman CD,Cherny NI

更新日期：2005-07-01 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：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

authors： De Conno F,Ripamonti C,Brunelli C

更新日期：2005-04-01 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

authors： McKeogh MM

更新日期：1997-11-01 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

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: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：:Breakthrough pain (BKP) is a transitory flare of pain that occurs on a background of relatively well controlled baseline pain. Previous surveys have found that BKP is highly prevalent among patients with cancer pain and predicts more severe pain, pain-related distress and functional impairment, and relatively poor qua...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Caraceni A,Martini C,Zecca E,Portenoy RK,Ashby MA,Hawson G,Jackson KA,Lickiss N,Muirden N,Pisasale M,Moulin D,Schulz VN,Rico Pazo MA,Serrano JA,Andersen H,Henriksen HT,Mejholm I,Sjogren P,Heiskanen T,Kalso E,Pere

更新日期：2004-04-01 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

authors： Tong E,Deckert A,Gani N,Nissim R,Rydall A,Hales S,Rodin G,Lo C

更新日期：2016-09-01 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

authors： Gerber K,Hayes B,Bryant C

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) was developed to improve the delivery of palliative care in general practice. AIM:The aim of the study was to evaluate the first phase of GSF in terms of its acceptability to primary care teams, effectiveness in changing practice and professionals' views on the consequence...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Thomas K,Noble B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Back pain resulting from spinal instability in metastatic bone disease can be difficult to alleviate by pharmacological methods and surgical intervention is frequently required. This paper discusses the treatment options with three illustrative case reports. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Fallon MT,O'Neill WM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Outpatient palliative care can provide significant benefits to seriously ill patients, but several barriers to appropriate referrals remain. No study has examined the physician factors associated with referral to outpatient palliative care. To determine physician factors, with a focus on physician beliefs, associated ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ahluwalia SC,Fried TR

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：: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：: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: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：: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：: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

authors： Wilcock A,Corcoran R,Tattersfield AE

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：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：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

authors： Docherty A,Owens A,Asadi-Lari M,Petchey R,Williams J,Carter YH

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative care requires a multidisciplinary care team. General practitioners often ask specialised palliative home care teams for support. Working with specialised nurses offers learning opportunities, also called workplace learning. This can be enhanced by the presence of a learning facilitator. OBJECTIVE...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Pype P,Mertens F,Wens J,Stes A,Van den Eynden B,Deveugele M

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Research into the burden of illness has focused predominantly on family caregivers, with little consideration of the other side of the caregiving relationship-care recipients' perspectives on having become a 'burden to others'. However, there is now a small but growing body of evidence to suggest that worry about crea...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： McPherson CJ,Wilson KG,Murray MA

更新日期：2007-03-01 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

authors： Peruselli C,Di Giulio P,Toscani F,Gallucci M,Brunelli C,Costantini M,Tamburini M,Paci E,Miccinesi G,Addington-Hall JM,Higginson IJ

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally, most care for people with life-limiting illnesses is provided by informal caregivers. Identifying characteristics of caregivers that may have unmet needs and negative outcomes can help provide better support to facilitate adjustment. AIM:We compared characteristics, expressed unmet needs and outco...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： DiGiacomo M,Hatano Y,Phillips J,Lewis J,Abernethy AP,Currow DC

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Vaccum assisted closure (VAC) therapy is a novel method of wound healing using topical negative pressure across the wound bed and containing all exudate within a sealed system. We report the use of VAC therapy to control pain and exudate of a malignant wound. ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ford-Dunn S

更新日期：2006-06-01 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