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Dying in the preferred setting is an indicator of good palliative care quality. Most people prefer to die at home. But does the quality of care as perceived by their relatives vary depending on the care settin...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:41
Published on: 16 August 2017
Research article
End-of-life communication becomes increasingly difficult in terminal cancer, which inevitably entails conversations around dying and death. In resource-limited areas, the context of end-of-life communication i...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:40
Published on: 14 August 2017
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The death of a parent is a highly stressful life event for bereaved children. Several studies have shown an increased risk of mental ill-health and psychosocial problems among affected children. The aims of th...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:39
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research article
Inpatient, generalist social workers in discharge planning roles work alongside specialist palliative care social workers to care for patients, often resulting in two social workers being concurrently involved...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:7
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Dementia is the most common neurological disorder worldwide and is a life-limiting condition, but very often is not recognised as such. People with dementia, and their carers, have been shown to have palliativ...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:9
Published on: 14 July 2017
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Individuals with HIV have a high prevalence of physical and psychological symptoms throughout their disease course. Despite the clinical and public health implications of unresolved pain and symptoms, little i...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:8
Published on: 13 July 2017
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Previous research and key guidelines have suggested potential models of palliative care for patients with COPD and interstitial lung disease. However, these recommendations are often not effectively implemente...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:6
Published on: 11 July 2017
Research article
Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity. Although a number of studies have documen...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:5
Published on: 10 July 2017
Study protocol
The objective of the Balearic Islands Palliative Care (PC) Program is to improve the quality of PC through a shared model consisting of primary health care professionals, home-based PC teams, and PC units in h...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:4
Published on: 10 July 2017
Research article
Maintaining a sense of self-care while providing patient centered care, can be difficult for practitioners in palliative medicine. We aimed to pilot an “on the job” mindfulness and compassion-oriented meditati...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:3
Published on: 6 July 2017
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A compassionate community approach to palliative care provides important rationale for building community-based hospice volunteer capacity. In this project, we piloted one such capacity-building model in which...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:2
Published on: 3 July 2017
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There is limited population-level research on end-of-life care in Australia that considers health care use and costs across hospital and community sectors. The aim of this study was to quantify health care use...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 17:1
Published on: 21 June 2017
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This study aimed to examine the status of undergraduate palliative care education among Japanese medical students using data from a survey conducted in 2015.
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:38
Published on: 7 June 2017
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Few services are available to support rural older adults living at home with advancing chronic illness. The objective of this project was to pilot a nurse-led navigation service to provide early palliative sup...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:37
Published on: 5 June 2017
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Hospital-based Palliative Care Consultation Teams (PCCTs) have a consulting role to specialist services at their request. Referral of patients is often late. Early palliative care in oncology has shown its eff...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:36
Published on: 30 May 2017
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Dyspnoea is a disabling symptom in patients admitted with heart failure (HF) and respiratory diseases (RD). The main aim of this study is to evaluate its intensity at admission and discharge and the relation w...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:35
Published on: 22 May 2017
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As in other areas of health delivery, there is a need to ensure that end-of-life care is guided by patient centred research. A systematic review was undertaken to examine the quantity and quality of data-based...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:34
Published on: 19 May 2017
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The purpose of this study was to compare the differences across occupational groups related to their end-of-life care-specific educational needs and reported intensity of interprofessional collaboration in lon...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:33
Published on: 18 May 2017
Research article
Neonatology has made significant advances in the last 30 years. Despite the advances in treatments, not all neonates survive and a palliative care model is required within the neonatal context. Previous resear...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:32
Published on: 11 May 2017
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This pilot study aimed to investigate quality of life, psychological burden, unmet needs, and care satisfaction in family caregivers of advanced cancer patients (FCs) during specialized inpatient palliative ca...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:31
Published on: 10 May 2017
Research article
The practice of continuous deep sedation is a challenging clinical intervention with demanding clinical and ethical decision-making. Though current research indicates that healthcare professionals’ involvement...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:30
Published on: 8 May 2017
Research article
Confinement to an in-patient hospital ward impairs patients’ sense of social support and connectedness. Providing the means, through communication technology, for patients to maintain contact with friends and ...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:29
Published on: 6 May 2017
Research article
When entering the dying phase, the nature of physical, psychosocial and spiritual care needs of people with dementia and their families may change. Our objective was to understand what needs to be in place to ...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:28
Published on: 28 April 2017
Study protocol
It is estimated that 19 to 83% of people with dementia suffer from pain that is inadequately treated in the last months of life. A large number of healthcare workers who care for these people in nursing homes ...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:27
Published on: 21 April 2017
Research article
Bereavement support is part of palliative care. Sending out bereavement anniversary cards is one intervention of follow-up support for the bereaved. This study evaluated the suitability of bereavement annivers...
BMC Palliative Care 2017 16:26
Published on: 19 April 2017
