NICE aims for management of pain and other symptoms and further it facilities provision of psychological, social and spiritual support for patients. The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families. Many aspects of palliative care are also ...
Fifty years ago, palliative care was largely limited to comfort care at the end of life, and wasmainly provided in very few free-standinghospices. Since then the scope of palliativecare has expanded considerably and probablycan best described as 'care beyond cure'. It is: holistic: addressing...
Proliferation of, and variability among, hospital mortality measures creates a challenge for hospital administrators. PC and hospice leaders need to educate themselves and their hospital administrators about the extent to which these mortality rates take end-of-life care into account. At the national ...
Palliative care is often seen as a "last resort" rather than a service that empowers terminally ill people to live as well as possible for as long as possible. The full benefit of this holistic approach can only be realized if people are referred early topalliative care—ideally from the t...
Hospice focuses on care, not cure. It’s a specific type of palliative medicine for people who usually have 6 months or less to live and who have stopped treatments for their condition. How Do I Get It? If you feel palliative medicine might help you, ask for it if it’s not offered...
The field of palliative care is still relatively new. In the early 1990s, research demonstrated substantial shortcomings in the quality of care for patients with serious illnesses.One 1995 study of nearly 5,000 people in the U.S.found that half of patients who died in the hospital experienced...
Public awareness of palliative care is low and clinicians often equate it with hospice. This provides both challenges and opportunities. This presentation will review the data on what people know about palliative care and hospice and how they think about these things. It will discuss basic ...
How long can you spend in hospice care? Maryland palliative care director explains after Jimmy Carter's death BALTIMORE -- Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was under hospice care for nearly two yearsbefore he died on Sunday, December 29, at the age of 100, which is an unusual amount ...
Ann no longer receives curative treatment for her advanced liver disease. While she's no longer receiving treatment for the liver disease itself, she is receiving care—palliative care—to ensure she is as comfortable as possible. Now, Ann receives medications to relieve her pain and nau...
It is important to identify prognostic and predictive factors concerning both life expectancy and quality of life in palliative care patients to facilitate... CI Ripamonti,G Farina,MC Garassino - 《Cancer》 被引量: 74发表: 2010年 How and when to refer a child for specialist paediatric palliati...