Palliative care seeks to relieve suffering and promote quality of life for patients and their families regardless of the stage of the disease or the need for other therapies. Although many schools of nursing have initiated advanced training programs in hospice and palliative care, there has been ...
Palliative care can start long before the expected time of death, by integrating it ‘upstream’, namely by recognizing the needs of patients and family earlier on and throughout the course of the disease [16]. Palliative care has its origins in cancer care, but is important for all kinds ...
Although evidence is limited there is increasing recognition of the need to improve care for patients with ACLD; however, there are many limiting factors to providing good palliative care for these patients, including unpredictable disease progression, the misconception of palliative care and end of ...
Summary Communication skills鈥 training has been placed high on the agenda by the National Institute of Clinical Excellence guidelines and the National Hea... GF Creed - 《European Journal of Oncology Nursing》 被引量: 58发表: 2008年 6. Communication Skills in Palliative Care Summary This chapter...
2 The current response to these challenges is largely specialized palliative care, started at a very late stage of the illness, and designed to meet the needs of people with cancer. There is little integration between primary and secondary care and lack of training in communication and advance ...
Many patients with advanced, incurable cancer do not receive any palliative care, reveals new research to be presented later this month at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain, 26-30 September.
Exercise training in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer undergoing palliative chemotherapy: a pilot study This pilot study aimed to investigate the feasibility of two different training programs in patients with advanced gastrointestinal cancer undergoing palli... W Jensen,FT Baumann,A Stein,.....
95,96 Although it is anticipated that programs specializing in advanced heart failure will occasionally maintain outpatients who are receiving continuous inotropic infusions as palliative end-stage care,6 there is more concern about intermittent inotropic infusions administered 1 to 3 times weekly in ...
monitoring. While these programs are growing in number and reach, they are rarely known or accessible to emergency clinicians [8]. The growing integration and cross-training in emergency and hospice and palliative medicine are an opportunity to enhance collaboration between acute and supportive care ...
Paltiel H, Solvoll E, Loge JH et al (2009) “The healthy me appears”: palliative cancer patients’ experiences of participation in a physical group exercise program. Palliat Supp Care 7:459–467. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1478951509990460 Article Google Scholar Turner K, Tookman A, Bristow...