of care for people with end-stage COPD. We 'do death badly' for people with COPD. In the UK, the targets set by the General Medical Services [11] House of Commons Health Committee. Palliative care. London: The Stationery Office; 2004. [12] World Health Organisation. 2006. Definition of...
PC = palliative care; WHO = World Health Organization. Some PC specialists have expressed doubts as to the meaning of impeccable as well as to whether this is a valid marker for assessment and treatment. Other areas of the definition of PC that require clarification are that it can be provid...
Tap into palliative care for seriously ill kids.The article offers information on the Palliative Care: Conversations Matter campaign launched by the National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) to increase palliative care resources for children with serious illness.EBSCO_AspNursing...
Older people in long-term care facilities are at a greater risk of receiving care at the end of life that does not adequately meet their needs, yet staff in long-term care are often unprepared to provide palliative care. The objective of the study was to explore palliative care nurse specia...
Changes in understandings of what is meant by ‘palliative care’ over the past thirty years have impacted on both the scope of the tasks performed in the field and the underlying philosophy. The World Health Organisation's initial definition of palliative care (1990) [16] had stressed the ...
Available from: https://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/definition/en/ Anderson RE, Grant L. What is the value of palliative care provision in low-resource settings? BMJ Glob Health [Internet]. 2017 Feb 14 [cited 2020 Mar 2];2(1). Zimmermann C, Swami N, Rodin G, Tannock I, Krzyzanow...
Several letters to the editor are presented in response to two articles published in the September 16, 2010 issue including "Achieving a Good Death for All," by J. Ellershaw and colleagues, and "Spiritual Dimensions of Dying in Pluralist Societies," by L. Grant and colleagues....
NZ: New Zealand PICOS: Participants, Interventions, Comparisons, Outcomes and Study design PPI: Patient population involvement (people living with EB or their carers) QoL: Quality of life RCSI: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland RDEB:
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would strengthen the arguments for ACP becoming part of routine dementia care and provide information on how it can be carried out effectively and sustainably [103]. More specifically, we found insufficient research to support recommendations on issues such as a uniform definition of lack of mental...