geriatric cancer patientsintimate farewellmedical carePawspiceterminally ill petsThe concept of Pawspice embraces treatment of the geriatric patient's cancer with a kinder and gentler approach, and simultaneously focuses on quality of life with top priority. The contemporary veterinarian offers palliation...
Information asymmetry in health care produces an unusual relationship between market participants; patients rely on their providers to act as their advocate, or agent, with licensure and professional codes of conduct as quality control measures. However because physicians also serve as market suppliers ...
In the past 20 years, there has been an increase in the elderly population admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) [1,2]. Currently, the median age of critically ill patients approaches 65 years in many countries, and the proportion of the very old (80 years or over) critically ill ...
(1993). The costs and experiences of caring for sick and disabled geri- atric patients: Australian observations. Australian Journal of Public Health, 17, 131-4.Smith, B., O'Malley, S. and Lawson, J. (1993) `The costs and experiences of caring for sick and disabled geriatric patients: ...
An overview of the development, activities, and plans for the VHA Care for Patients with Complex Problems Program will be presented. The audience will be engaged in discussing the challenges for providing geriatric behavioral care across inpatient mental health, nursing home, and rehabilitation care ...
Setting: Postacute geriatric hospital ward of a Veteran's Affairs hospital. Participants: Consecutively admitted patients between 50 and 100 years old for ... Powers,James,S.,... - 《Gerontologist》 被引量: 6发表: 2013年 RETURNING THE GERIATRIC VETERAN TO THE COMMUNITY FROM A NEUROPSYCHIATRY ...
eConsult questions about these patients were most commonly about drug treatment and were addressed to a number of different disease- or organ-specific specialty groups, most commonly cardiology, and only seldom to geriatric medicine groups. eConsult proved to be a valuable tool for PCPs providing ...
the Geriatric Surgical Patient; Hematologic Issues in the Geriatric Surgical Patient; Healthcare-Economic Impact of Caring for the Elderly; Operative Risk ... J Brooke,Profdoc,C Manneh,... 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 Caring for "Socially Undesirable" Patients The healthcare team suspected the patien...
analyses.The cholinesterase inhibitor galantamine is expected to bring savings in the direct cost of caring for patients with Alzheimer's disease in the ... J Jaime,Caro,Maribel,... - 《Dementia & Geriatric Cognitive Disorders》 被引量: 37发表: 2002年 Measuring the Caregiver Burden of Caring ...
For this reason, oncologists and geriatricians need to collaborate in developing tools to systematically assess the health status of elderly patients and their fitness to receive cancer therapies of various intensity. Tailoring anti-cancer treatments and supportive care to individual needs should be ...