preferences place of deathsocial workterminal stageFor cancer patients and their caregivers in reaching the period of dying in peace and dignity, the choice of place of death is important in developing the quality of life during dying period and even the quality of dying. In this review, the ...
Place of deathTerminal cancer patientsApproximately two-third of cancer patients, when asked about the preferred place of death, wish to die in their own homes. However, the majority of deaths from cancers in most western countries occur in a hospital. When a person dies from other than ...
This paper addresses issues relating to place of death in young adults with terminal cancer, through the perspectives of their parents. Evidence suggests that the majority of terminally ill cancer patients would prefer the option of a home death, but little is known about preferences among young ...
Terminal cancer care and patients' preference for place of death: a prospective study. Objective—To assess the preference of terminally ill patients with cancer for their place of final care. Design—Prospective study of randomly selected pa... J Townsend,AO Frank,D Fermont,... - 《Bmj ...
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To investigate whether dying at home influences the likelihood that a terminal cancer patient will achieve a good death despite the limited medical resources available in many communities, this study investigated the relationship between the achievement of a good death and the performance of good-death...
Patients with cancer or in terminal stages of illness often have unbearable pain.88 Parlow and colleagues evaluated the use of N2O/O2 in a small number of patients. They concluded that nitrous oxide was beneficial and deserved to be considered for patients in pain.89 3. In such cases, the ...
Attal said that the bill was important "because death is part of life. Because everyone should have the right to die with dignity." Current French law allows terminally ill patients who endure great suffering and have a short life expectancy to be placed under deep and continuous ...
cluster analysis using the top fifteen DE cfRNAs of each type revealed a higher level of DE cfRNAs in cancer patients than in cancer-free controls (Fig.4e). As expected, no evident differences in the expression profiles of these cfRNAs between patients with different cancer stages were observe...
THE STAGES OF DEATH AND DYING Elisabeth Kübler-Ross interviewed patients with terminal illnesses over 2½ years. She described her experiences in her book,On Death and Dying, which was published in 1969. It was the first publication that specifically addressed the need to talk with people who...