Data mining nursing care plans of endof- life patients: a study to improve healthcare decision making. Int J Nurs Knowl [internet].2013[Cited 2015 Sept 08]24(1):15-24. Available from: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pubmed/23413930...
Palliative care is an interprofessional specialty and an approach to care that focuses on improving the quality of life of patients and their families who are facing serious illness. Palliative care can address many domains of symptoms and needs that are important to patients and families of critica...
Among decedents, patients not treated with dialysis before death received less intensive patterns of end-of-life care than those treated with dialysis. Decedents for whom there had been a decision not to pursue dialysis therapy before death were more likely to receive palliative care and hospice.关...
End of life care is often inadequate for people with dementia. Advanced care planning (ACP) has the potential to improve outcomes for people with dementia. The aim of this review is to establish the strength of the evidence and provide decision makers with a clear understanding of what is kno...
Hospice focuses on pain management and symptom relief, while addressing the patient’s emotional, social and spiritual needs—as well as those of family members. Hospice lets patients and families share the end-of-life experience with dignity and, in most cases, in the comfort of their own ...
Nursing Care Plans & Management Nursing care for patients with lung cancer encompasses both physiological and psychological aspects, similar to other cancer patients. The focus is on addressing the respiratory manifestations of the disease, along with providingpainrelief, managing discomfort, and preventing...
Nursing Care Plans and Management Thenursing care planfor patients on prolonged bed rest focuses on maintaining patientcomfort, preventing complications such asdeep vein thrombosis,musclewasting, and urinary tract infections, and promoting physical and psychological well-being. ...
Return toIsrael Journal of Health Policy Research To charge or not to charge: reducing patient no-show In order to reduce patient no-show, the Israeli government is promoting legislation that will allow Health Plans to require a co-payment from patients when reserving an appointment. It is hope...
While improving treatments yielded longer life expectancy, often with higher quality of life for some time, later stages of disease were also prolonged: patients were living considerably longer with burdensome morbidities from progressing disease and adverse treatment effects. Therefore, hospices found ...
As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family's bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one's wishes for end-of-life medical treatment.