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Aggressive end-of-life (EOL) care is commonly used among older patients with metastatic cancer and is used more often by those residing in nursing homes (NHs), according to a study published online Feb. 22 inJAMA Network Open. Ad Siran M. Koroukian, Ph.D., from the Case Western Reserv...
Care at the end of life, like all health care, is an economic good and is traded in a market. To datethere exists no published model of how the market for this good operates. As with all health care,the market for end of life care is subject to market failure. Although widely accept...
This chapter explores the ethical, legal and professional issues that healthcare professionals face when caring for individuals at the end of life. Contemporary guidance will be drawn upon along with an evolving case study and legal judgments to illustra
More than half the complaints received by the UK National Health Service (NHS) concern end-of-life care, with an emphasis on spiritual matters. Much has been written on the spiritual needs of the dying, but many doctors and nurses still find this a difficult area to approach. They lack ...
'End of life care is the remit of all nurses, not just specialists' New guidance for nurses aims to encourage best practice through a clear six-step pathway. Christian Duffin is given an exclusive preview 机译:“临终关怀是所有护士的职责,而不仅仅是专家。”新的护士指南旨在通过明确的六步走路...
(NHs) lack palliative care (PC) access; but little is known about whether access to PC knowledge and practice (beyond hospice) impacts residents' care. The study objective was to evaluate how differing levels of NH PC knowledge and practice are associated with residents' end-of-life health ...
End of Life Issues. (2010). MedlinePlus.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html#cat1 What Is End of Life Care? (2010). U.K. National Health Service.http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Endoflifecare/Pages/Whatisendoflifecare.aspx ...
Particular objectives were reducing the number of unnecessary emergency admissions and improving the skills of the workforce. Question How effective has the National End of Life Care Programme been in its first three years? And given that an increasing proportion of end of life care services will ...
Working conditions in nursing homes (NHs) may hamper teamwork in providing quality end-of-life (EOL) care, especially the participation of NH physicians. Dutch NH physicians are specialists or trainees in elderly care medicine with NHs as the main workplace, whereas in Norway, family physicians ...