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...
First, ask your primary care doctor for a referral to palliative care. Remember: you don't have to give up your relationship with your regular doctors to receive palliative care services. The palliative care team will work with your other doctors. In most cases, patients receive palliative care...
Palliative care is about total patient care, management of disabling and debilitating symptoms, and the role of the primary care physician. As physicians, we must understand who, what, when, how, and where to institute, or refer patients... Melvin,A Terry - 《Primary Care Clinics in Office...
Palliative Care for Children The goals are the same for kids and adults: relieve pain and other symptoms. But children with serious illnesses aren’t mini-adults -- they have their own specific needs. Some kids can’t explain their pain or are too young to talk. Doctors and nurses trained...
Palliative Radiation Therapy for Palliative Care Providers: What You Need to Know and How You Can Best Advocate for Your Patients (FR404) E Martin,S Rich,J Jones,... - 《Journal of Pain & Symptom Management》 被引量: 0发表: 2019年 'Advocate for your patients and do your best' Why ...
The best time to talk about end-of-life preferences is early in a patient’s disease. Approach the topic during regular office visits, based on new symptoms, signs of disease progression, options, advance care planning, and facts about how hospice and palliative care can help. You can use ...
What was it like to provide hospice care to patients in the 1980s–90s who were dying from an unknown disease with no known treatments? Tenured VITAS employees who worked on dedicated AIDS patient-care teams in South Florida remember their experiences as challenging, heart-breaking, hea...
J Florin,A Ehrenberg,M Ehnfors - 《Journal of Clinical Nursing》 被引量: 197发表: 2010年 What influences participation in clinical trials in palliative care in a cancer centre? Like any other speciality, palliative care needs a scientific foundation on which to base its practice. Research in...
The author discusses research findings which reveal that health care systems and quality of patient care is affected by clinician stress, fatigue and burnout. The importance of clinician self-care, such as mindful eating, stress management and physical activity, is emphasized for physicians to achieve...
The study recommended, for instance, that ACP should be adapted to the individual's readiness to engage in the ACP process. Professor Payne said: "We consider that ACP is a process rather than a one-off conversation or a tick box exercise. If the patient prefers, ACP can be initiated ear...