Legacy perceptions and interventions for adults and children receiving palliative care: A systematic review.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hospitalizations in patients with metastatic cancer occur commonly at the end of life but have not been well-described in individuals with metastatic breast cancer. AIM:To describe the reasons for admission and frequency of palliative care and hospice utilization in hospitalized patients with metastatic bre...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Shin JA,Parkes A,El-Jawahri A,Traeger L,Knight H,Gallagher ER,Temel JS

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attitudes to companion animals were surveyed among 50 patients and staff at a day care hospice. Dog visits were welcomed by all but two. Of the 37 patients studied, only seven had a companion animal, often their closest companion. Many more would like to keep an animal, but were prevented by age, frailty or accommodat...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Phear DN

更新日期：1996-10-01 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：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:People with dementia requiring palliative care have multiple needs, which are amplified in long-term care settings. The European Association for Palliative Care White Paper offers recommendations for optimal palliative care in dementia integral for this population, providing useful guidance to inform interve...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Kochovska S,Garcia MV,Bunn F,Goodman C,Luckett T,Parker D,Phillips JL,Sampson EL,van der Steen JT,Agar MR

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：:It is important to support general practitioners (GPs) in maintaining and developing their palliative care skills as most of the final year of a patient's life is spent at home under the care of the primary health care team. The training needs and uptake of GPs have been explored, but little is known about how GP educ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Shipman C,Addington-Hall J,Barclay S,Briggs J,Cox I,Daniels L,Millar D

更新日期：2001-05-01 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：OBJECTIVE:A prospective cohort study evaluated the performance and acceptability of the cognitive based Mood Evaluation Questionnaire (MEQ) in assessing depressive symptoms over time in patients with advanced cancer. The structured clinical interview for DSM-III-R (SCID) and the single-item interview screening question...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Meyer HA,Sinnott C,Seed PT

更新日期：2003-10-01 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：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

authors： Henderson M,MacGregor E,Sykes N,Hotopf M

更新日期：2006-06-01 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:Being at peace is important for the quality of life of dying cancer patients, but its features, and the role of the doctor in facilitating peace, are unclear. AIM:We sought to understand the features of a peaceful patient, and patients' preferences regarding the role of the doctor in facilitating a sense of...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Best M,Butow P,Olver I

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A universal consensus regarding standardized pain outcomes does not exist. The personalized pain goal has been suggested as a clinically relevant outcome measure. AIM:To assess the feasibility of obtaining a personalized pain goal and to compare a clinically based personalized pain goal definition versus a ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Fainsinger R,Nekolaichuk C,Fainsinger L,Muller V,Fainsinger L,Amigo P,Brisebois A,Burton-Macleod S,Ghosh S,Gilbert R,Tarumi Y,Thai V,Wolch G

更新日期：2017-12-01 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：: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:As end-of-life (EoL) care expands across Europe and the world, service developments are increasingly studied. The sociocultural context in which such changes take place, however, is often neglected in research. AIM:To explore sociocultural factors in EoL care in Belgium as represented by the literature. DE...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Andrew EV,Cohen J,Evans N,Meñaca A,Harding R,Higginson I,Pool R,Gysels M,PRISMA.

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：: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

authors： Klepstad P,Kaasa S,Borchgrevink PC

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Surprise Question ("Would I be surprised if this patient were to die within the next 12 months?") is widely used to identify palliative patients, though with low predictive value. To improve timely identification of palliative care needs, we propose an additional Surprise Question ("Would I be surprised ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Ermers DJ,Kuip EJ,Veldhoven C,Schers HJ,Perry M,Bronkhorst EM,Vissers KC,Engels Y

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Restructuring health care in Canada has emphasized the provision of ambulatory and home-based palliative care. Acquiring economic evidence is critical given this trend and its tremendous demands on family caregivers. The purposes of this study were: 1) to comprehensively assess the societal costs of home-based palliat...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Guerriere DN,Zagorski B,Fassbender K,Masucci L,Librach L,Coyte PC

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high prevalence of pain and other symptoms throughout the HIV disease trajectory, the need for management of side effects related to antiretroviral therapy, the continuing incidence of cancers and new emerging co-morbidities as a result of extended life expectancy under new therapeutic regimes, and the ongoing nee...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Harding R,Easterbrook P,Higginson IJ,Karus D,Raveis VH,Marconi K

更新日期：2005-04-01 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：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：BACKGROUND:The majority of children and young people who die in the United Kingdom have pre-existing life-limiting illness. Currently, most such deaths occur in hospital, most frequently within the intensive care environment. AIM:To explore the experiences of senior medical and nursing staff regarding the challenges a...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Mitchell S,Dale J

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

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：:The subject of communication between palliative care physicians and their patients regarding their diagnosis and prognosis has not been extensively researched. The purpose of this survey was to compare the attitudes and beliefs of palliative care specialists regarding communication with the terminally ill in Europe, S...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Bruera E,Neumann CM,Mazzocato C,Stiefel F,Sala R

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare but usually fatal demyelinating disease of the central nervous system in patients who are immunocompromised. It is characterized by rapid neurological deterioration associated with progressive white matter changes on imaging and is confirmed by isolation of th...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： Cotton PJ,Le B

更新日期：2013-03-01 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

authors： Bennett MI,Davies EA,Higginson IJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Homeless persons tend to die younger than the housed population and have complex, often unmet, end-of-life care needs. High levels of illicit drug use among this population are a particular challenge for health and social services professionals involved in end-of-life care services delivery. This article explores the ...

journal_title：Palliative medicine

authors： McNeil R,Guirguis-Younger M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00