LilianaDe Lima, ...EduardoBruera, inPalliative Care (Second Edition), 2011 Proposed or Adopted Solutions The following are the adopted or proposed solutions to the implementation of palliative care programs in South Africa: • Increased public awareness inpalliative care education, training, and res...
Objective: The integration of palliative care (PC) education into medical and nursing curricula has been identified as an international priority. PC education has undergone significant development in Latin America, but gaps in the integration of PC courses into undergraduate and postgraduate curricula ...
Palliative care is an essential component to high-quality care for patients with cancer. How can access to palliative care be expanded? Eduardo Bruera, MD, from MD Anderson Cancer Center speaks with JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo about 2 new trials in JAMA that address access to...
It is important to support general practitioners (GPs) in developing and maintaining palliative care skills as most of the final year of a patient's life is spent at home. This study aimed to ascertain what further training Irish GPs want in this discipline, and how such training might be ...
Palliative care training is at three levels. The first level is palliative care approach. Every practising doctor should have this patient-centred approach of providing quality care. They should know how to talk to the patient, communicate with the patient, effectively discuss diagnosis problems. Eve...
Delivering palliative care earlier in patients’ hospital courses aligns with guidelines for high-quality palliative care6 and is associated with reduced hospital costs in adults with cancer and noncancer serious illness.38 Furthermore, less than 10% of the default orders were cancelled by clinicians...
Moreover, two training courses in palliative care are organized biennially, one for all health workers in the region and one for volunteers co-operating with the medical teams. 展开 关键词: Home care Specialist palliative care team DOI: 10.1007/s005200050002 被引量: 7 年份: 2000 ...
Pallium Canada (Pallium) is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2000 to build primary palliative care capacity nationally across Canada. It has done this largely through its interprofessional Learning Essential Approaches to Palliative Care (LEAP) courses which target providers across ...
Didactic elective courses include “Care of the Terminally Ill (CTI)” and “Grief and Bereavement Theory.” The CTI elective has two primary components: pharmacotherapy and psychosocial issues of advanced illness. A significant amount of active learning is included in this course such as case ...
•Palliativecareistheactivetotalcareofpatientswhosediseaseisnotresponsivetocurativetreatment.Controlofpain,orothersymptoms,andofpsychological,socialandspiritualproblemsisparamount.Thegoalofpalliativecareisachievementofthebestpossiblequalityoflifeforpatientsandtheirfamilies.•Manyaspectsofpalliativecarearealsoapplicable...