Life-limiting illness refers to a serious and progressive medical condition that has high likelihood to limit both the quality and length of one's life. With this type of illness, for which there is no definitive cure, there are usually significant physical symptoms and functional debilitation ...
When people have a serious life-limiting illness, physical symptoms are often prominent, both in the experience of the illness and in its treatment. No les... Brian,D.,Carpenter - 《Occupational Therapy in Health Care》 被引量: 3发表: 2014年 ...
Clinical psychology A depth psychological approach to persons with life-limiting illness PACIFICA GRADUATE INSTITUTE Lisa Sloan McGillicuddyTerrence PaulIndividuals living with terminal illness experience dream intensification and acceleration. This heuristic study examines how depth psychology, specifically dream...
Addressing Life Limiting Illness in EldersAddressing Life Limiting Illness in EldersBackground: Elder patients often experience chronic life limiting conditions, such as vascular diseases, malignancies, renal or liver failure, stroke, advanced heart or lung disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and dementia...
Objective:To examine characteristics, outcomes and flow for patients over the age of 45years with a life-limiting illness (LLI) presenting to a regional ED. Methods:Retrospective, observational cohort study of patients with LLI in an Australian regional ED over a 15-day period. Eligible patients...
as potential overtreatment in older individuals with solid cancer, patterns of unplanned hospitalizations in the last year of life, the initiation and continuation of endocrine treatment formetastatic breast cancer, and the consequences of a drug-drug interaction in individuals with life-limiting illness...
2,6,7 Statin therapy is commonly considered for discontinuation in the setting of advanced life-limiting illness.8 More than 25% of Medicare beneficiaries receive statin therapy.9 When this drug class is prescribed for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease, benefits accrue after 2 years.10,...
SAN FRANCISCO, June 5 (Xinhua) -- New research suggests patients nearing the end of their lives because of a "life-limiting illness" may not feel medically abandoned if their doctor wants to take them off drugs that control their cholesterol. ...
Research Agenda for Developing Measures to Examine Quality of Care and Quality of Life of Patients Diagnosed with Life-Limiting Illness: White Paper from t... JM Teno,I Byock,MJ Field 被引量: 0发表: 1999年 Prostate Cancer Practice Patterns and Quality of Life: the Prostate Cancer Outcomes ...
The purpose of this study was to examine mothers' experiences of the care provided to their child with a life-limiting illness. This study explored mothers' experiences in finding, accessing, and providing care for their children and their perceptions of gaps, barriers, and strengths in care fo...