A randomised, multicentre clinical trial of specialised palliative care plus standard treatment versus standard treatment alone for cancer patients with palliative care needs: the Danish palliative care trial (DanPaCT) protocol.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Models of palliative care delivery develop within a social, cultural, and political context. This paper describes the 30-year history of the National Tumor Association (ANT), a palliative care organization founded in the Italian province of Bologna, focusing on this model of home care for palliative cancer p...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Casadio M,Biasco G,Abernethy A,Bonazzi V,Pannuti R,Pannuti F

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The supportive hospice aged residential exchange (SHARE) is a new model of palliative care education that has been designed for residential aged care. The goal of SHARE is to help clinical staff improve palliative care within residential aged care facilities and to improve specialist palliative care nurses' ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Frey R,Barham S,Balmer D,Boyd M,Robinson J,Gott M

更新日期：2020-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Family members are involved in the care of palliative patients at home and therefore, should be viewed as important sources of information to help clinicians better understand the quality palliative care service patients receive. The objective of the study was to analyse what is valued most by family carers ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Aparicio M,Centeno C,Carrasco JM,Barbosa A,Arantzamendi M

更新日期：2017-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Research suggests that there may be bereavement experiences and support needs which are specific to family caregivers providing end of life care (EoLC), although this remains an under-researched area. This paper focuses on themes relating to bereavement which were derived from an analysis of free text survey...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Harrop E,Morgan F,Byrne A,Nelson A

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Palliative and end-of-life care development is hindered by a lack of information about the circumstances surrounding dying in developing and resource-poor countries. Our aims were to develop and obtain face and content validity for a self-administered questionnaire on end-of-life care provision and medical d...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Jennings N,Chambaere K,Cox Macpherson C,Cox KL,Deliens L,Cohen J

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted one such capacity-building model in which volunteers and a nurse partnered to provide navigation support beginning in the early palliative ph...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Pesut B,Duggleby W,Warner G,Fassbender K,Antifeau E,Hooper B,Greig M,Sullivan K

更新日期：2017-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Parental palliative disease is a family affair, however adolescent's well-being and coping are still rarely considered. The objectives of this paper were a) to identify differences in psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among adolescents and young adults with paren...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Kühne F,Krattenmacher T,Bergelt C,Ernst JC,Flechtner HH,Führer D,Herzog W,Klitzing KV,Romer G,Möller B

更新日期：2012-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The focus of Specialized Palliative Care (SPC) is to improve care for patients with incurable diseases and their families, which includes the opportunity to make their own choice of place of care and ultimately place of death. The Danish Palliative Care Trial (DOMUS) aims to investigate whether an accelerate...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Nordly M,Benthien KS,Von Der Maase H,Johansen C,Kruse M,Timm H,Vadstrup ES,Kurita GP,von Heymann-Horan AB,Sjøgren P

更新日期：2014-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Soft tissue sarcomas (STS) account for less than 1% of all malignancies. Approximately 50% of the patients develop metastases with limited survival in the course of their disease. For those patients, palliative treatment aiming at symptom relief and improvement of quality of life is most important. However, ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Brandes F,Striefler JK,Dörr A,Schmiester M,Märdian S,Koulaxouzidis G,Kaul D,Behzadi A,Thuss-Patience P,Ahn J,Pelzer U,Bullinger L,Flörcken A

更新日期：2021-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this might be related to lack of knowledge about palliative care, insufficient interprofessional communicatio...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Ziehm J,Farin E,Seibel K,Becker G,Köberich S

更新日期：2016-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients' sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and family can potentially improve well-being at the end of life by minimizing social isolation and faci...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Guo Q,Cann B,McClement S,Thompson G,Chochinov HM

更新日期：2017-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) was developed for evaluating essential outcomes for palliative care patients. Our objectives here are to describe the process of a six-phase cross-cultural adaptation of IPOS to French (IPOS-Fr), highlight the difficulties encountered and strategies to solv...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Sterie AC,Bernard M

更新日期：2019-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：: Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders of the elderly population. Few therapeutic options are available for patients with PD requiring palliative care. Treatment of the early stages of PD is entirely different from later stages. During the later stages, the palliative care mode...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Lokk J,Delbari A

更新日期：2012-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The benefit of palliative chemotherapy (PC) in patients with advanced solid tumors and poor performance status (ECOG-PS) has not been prospectively validated, which makes treatment decision challenging. We aimed to evaluate the overall survival, factors associated with early mortality, and adoption of additi...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Fiorin de Vasconcellos V,Rcc Bonadio R,Avanço G,Negrão MV,Pimenta Riechelmann R

更新日期：2019-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Patient Satisfaction Questionnaire (PSQ) is an assessment tool used to evaluate patients' perspectives of their doctor's communication and interpersonal skills. The present pilot study investigated whether the PSQ could be administered successfully in a hospice inpatient setting and if it is an acceptabl...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Henriksen KM,Heller N,Finucane AM,Oxenham D

更新日期：2014-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Keeping people living with advanced dementia in their usual place of residence is becoming a key governmental goal but to achieve this, family carers and health care professionals must negotiate how to provide optimal care. Previously, we reported a realist analysis of the health care professional perspectiv...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Kupeli N,Sampson EL,Leavey G,Harrington J,Davis S,Candy B,King M,Nazareth I,Jones L,Moore K

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although spiritual care is a basic element of holistic nursing, nurses' spiritual care knowledge and abilities are often unable to satisfy patients' spiritual care needs. Therefore, nurses are in urgent need of relevant training to enhance their abilities to provide patients with spiritual care. DESIGN:A no...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Hu Y,Jiao M,Li F

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Over the past decades there has been a significant increase in the number of published clinical trials in palliative care. However, empirical evidence suggests that there are methodological problems in the design and conduct of studies, which raises questions about the validity and generalisability of the re...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Bouça-Machado R,Rosário M,Alarcão J,Correia-Guedes L,Abreu D,Ferreira JJ

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED: BACKGROUND:Development of interventions that address psychosocial and existential distress in people with motor neurone disease (MND) or that alleviate caregiver burden in MND family carers have often been suggested in the research literature. Dignity therapy, which was developed to reduce psychosocial and...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Bentley B,Aoun SM,O'Connor M,Breen LJ,Chochinov HM

更新日期：2012-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Volunteers play a significant role in supporting hospice and palliative care in Africa, but little is known about the types of volunteers, their motivations and roles in service delivery. METHODS:Palliative care experts from 30 African countries were invited to participate in an online survey, conducted in ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Loth CC,Namisango E,Powell RA,Pabst KH,Leng M,Hamada M,Radbruch L

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cervical cancer is mostly diagnosed at advanced stages among the majority of women in low-income settings, with palliative care being the only feasible form of care. This study was aimed at investigating palliative care knowledge and access among women with cervical cancer in Harare, Zimbabwe. METHODS:Seque...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Tapera O,Nyakabau AM

更新日期：2020-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the last few decades, patients' rights have been reinforced in many countries by acts of law. Measures now include health care proxies to uphold the doctor-patient relationship and advance directives for end-of-life patients. These could be relevant tools as early as the initial diagnosis of haematolo...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Trarieux-Signol S,Moreau S,Gourin MP,Penot A,Edoux de Lafont G,Preux PM,Bordessoule D

更新日期：2014-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:BACKGROUND: Transitions in the location of care and in who provides such care can be extremely stressful for individuals facing death and for those close to them. The objective of this study was to describe the distribution of transitions in care experienced by palliative care patients following admission to a compreh...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Burge FI,Lawson B,Critchley P,Maxwell D

更新日期：2005-02-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective of the Balearic Islands Palliative Care (PC) Program is to improve the quality of PC through a shared model consisting of primary health care professionals, home-based PC teams, and PC units in hospitals. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), patients with advanced cancer and other ...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Llobera J,Sansó N,Ruiz A,Llagostera M,Serratusell E,Serrano C,Roselló MLM,Benito E,Castaño EJ,Leiva A

更新日期：2017-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Empirical knowledge around palliative care provision and needs of people with intellectual disabilities is extremely limited, as is the availability of research resources, including expertise and funding. This paper describes a consultation process that sought to develop an agenda for research priorities for...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Tuffrey-Wijne I,Wicki M,Heslop P,McCarron M,Todd S,Oliver D,de Veer A,Ahlström G,Schäper S,Hynes G,O'Farrell J,Adler J,Riese F,Curfs L

更新日期：2016-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rapid effective responsiveness to patient needs is pivotal to high quality palliative care. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (Indigenous) people are susceptible to life-limiting illnesses at younger ages than other Australians and experience inequity of health service provision. The Palliative Care Outc...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Woods JA,Johnson CE,Ngo HT,Katzenellenbogen JM,Murray K,Thompson SC

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:More people die in hospital than in any other setting which is why it is important to study the outcomes of hospital care at end of life. This study analyses what influenced outcomes in a sample of patients who died in hospital in Ireland in 2008/9. The study was undertaken as part of the Irish Hospice Found...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： McKeown K,Haase T,Pratschke J,Twomey S,Donovan H,Engling F

更新日期：2015-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Globally the state of palliative care research remains uncertain. Questions remain regarding impact, funding, and research priorities. Building upon previous research, this review examines palliative care research in Ireland and contributes to a wider international debate on the state of palliative care rese...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： McIlfatrick S,Muldrew DHL,Hasson F,Payne S

更新日期：2018-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Overuse of anti-cancer therapy is an important quality-of-care issue. An aggressive approach to treatment can have negative effects on quality of life and cost, but its effect on survival is not well-defined. METHODS:Using the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare database, we identified 7,87...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Saito AM,Landrum MB,Neville BA,Ayanian JZ,Earle CC

更新日期：2011-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:An international discussion about whether or not to legally permit euthanasia and (or) physician assisted suicide (EAS) is ongoing. Unbearable suffering in patients may result in a request for EAS. In the Netherlands EAS is legally permitted, and unbearable suffering is one of the central compulsory criteria...

journal_title：BMC palliative care

authors： Ruijs CD,van der Wal G,Kerkhof AJ,Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD

更新日期：2014-12-23 00:00:00