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Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:82
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Caregiving in ALS – a mixed methods approach to the study of Burden
Caregiver burden affects the physical, psychological and emotional well-being of the caregiver. The purpose of this analysis was to describe an informal caregiver cohort (n = 81), their subjective assessment of b...
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The last phase of life with dementia in Swiss nursing homes: the study protocol of the longitudinal and prospective ZULIDAD study
The proportion of older people with advanced dementia who will die in nursing homes is constantly growing. However, little is known about the dying phase, the type of symptoms, the management of symptoms and t...
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Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study
Patients’ perceptions of care quality within and across settings are important for the further development of palliative care. The aim was to investigate patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality within se...
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“Sometimes I’ve gone home feeling that my voice hasn’t been heard”: a focus group study exploring the views and experiences of health care assistants when caring for dying residents
In most developed countries, Health Care Assistants comprise a significant, and growing, proportion of the residential aged care workforce. Despite the fact that they provide the majority of direct care for re...
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Erratum to: A co-design process developing heuristics for practitioners providing end of life care for people with dementia
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Health care professionals’ attitudes regarding palliative care for patients with chronic heart failure: an interview study
Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this migh...
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Patients’ perception of types of errors in palliative care – results from a qualitative interview study
Medical errors have been recognized as a relevant public health concern and research efforts to improve patient safety have increased. In palliative care, however, studies on errors are rare and mainly focus o...
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Benefits of interventions for respiratory secretion management in adult palliative care patients—a systematic review
Respiratory secretions impact negatively on palliative patients. Unfortunately, a gold standard therapy is not yet available. The purpose of this study was to identify which interventions are in use to control...
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Community-based pediatric palliative care for health related quality of life, hospital utilization and costs lessons learned from a pilot study
Children with chronic complex-medical conditions comprise a small minority of children who require substantial healthcare with major implications for hospital utilization and costs in pediatrics. Community-Bas...
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Factors influencing the health-related quality of life of Chinese advanced cancer patients and their spousal caregivers: a cross-sectional study
Cancer and its treatment have a major impact on the lives of patients and their intimate partners, such as on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aims of this study are to: (i) assess the HRQOL o...
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Comfort experience in palliative care: a phenomenological study
Palliative care aims to provide maximum comfort to the patient. However it is unknown what factors facilitate or hinder the experience of comfort, from the perspective of inpatients of palliative care units. T...
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Resilience and hope during advanced disease: a pilot study with metastatic colorectal cancer patients
The balance between hope-hopelessness plays an important role in the way terminally ill patients report quality of life, and personal resilience may be related to hope at the end of life. The objective of this...
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Improving palliative care in selected settings in England using quality indicators: a realist evaluation
There is a gap between readily available evidence of best practice and its use in everyday palliative care. The IMPACT study evaluated the potential of facilitated use of Quality Indicators as tools to improve...
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A co-design process developing heuristics for practitioners providing end of life care for people with dementia
The end of life for someone with dementia can present many challenges for practitioners; such as, providing care if there are swallowing difficulties. This study aimed to develop a toolkit of heuristics (rules...
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The impact of a simulated intervention on attitudes of undergraduate nursing and medical students towards end of life care provision
The concerns of undergraduate nursing and medical students’ regarding end of life care are well documented. Many report feelings of emotional distress, anxiety and a lack of preparation to provide care to pati...
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Keep in touch (KIT): perspectives on introducing internet-based communication and information technologies in palliative care
Hospitalized palliative patients need to keep in touch with their loved ones. Regular social contact may be especially difficult for individuals on palliative care in-patient units due to the isolating nature ...
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Implementing the first regional hospice palliative care program in Ontario: the Champlain region as a case study
Regionalization promotes planning and coordination of services across settings and providers to meet population needs. Despite the potential advantages of regionalization, no regional hospice palliative care p...
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The ‘problematisation’ of palliative care in hospital: an exploratory review of international palliative care policy in five countries
Government policy is a fundamental component of initiating change to improve the provision of palliative care at a national level. The World Health Organisation’s recognition of palliative care as a basic huma...
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Mismatch between physicians and family members views on communications about patients with chronic incurable diseases receiving care in critical and intensive care settings in Georgia: a quantitative observational survey
Physicians working in critical and intensive care settings encounter death of chronic incurable patients on a daily basis; however they have scant skills on how to communicate with the patients and their famil...
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Improving the quality of life of palliative and chronic disease patients and carers in remote Australia with the establishment of a day respite facility
In the Northern Territory (NT) there is a lack of respite services available to palliative care patients and their families. Indigenous people in the NT suffer substantially higher rates of poorly controlled c...
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Barriers to and facilitators for implementing quality improvements in palliative care – results from a qualitative interview study in Norway
Implementation of quality improvements in palliative care (PC) is challenging, and detailed knowledge about factors that may facilitate or hinder implementation is essential for success. One part of the EU-fun...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:61 -
Protocol for the End-of-Life Social Action Study (ELSA): a randomised wait-list controlled trial and embedded qualitative case study evaluation assessing the causal impact of social action befriending services on end of life experience
Compassionate support at the end of life should not be the responsibility of health and social care professionals alone and requires a response from the wider community. Volunteers, as community members, are a...
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Communicating prognostic uncertainty in potential end-of-life contexts: experiences of family members
This article reports on the concept of “communicating prognostic uncertainty” which emerged from a mixed methods survey asking family members to rank their satisfaction in seven domains of hospital end-of-life...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:59 -
The effect of bereavement groups on grief, anxiety, and depression - a controlled, prospective intervention study
Bereavement groups are believed to be beneficial as preventive interventions to reduce the development of complicated grief for people at risk after the death of a significant other. This study aimed to invest...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:58 -
Exploring access to end of life care for ethnic minorities with end stage kidney disease through recruitment in action research
Variation in provision of palliative care in kidney services and practitioner concerns to provide equitable access led to the development of this study which focussed on the perspectives of South Asian patient...
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Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease
Integrated Palliative Care (PC) strategies are often implemented following models, namely standardized designs that provide frameworks for the organization of care for people with a progressive life-threatenin...
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An ethnographic study of strategies to support discussions with family members on end-of-life care for people with advanced dementia in nursing homes
Most people with advanced dementia die in nursing homes where families may have to make decisions as death approaches. Discussions about end-of-life care between families and nursing home staff are uncommon, d...
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Factors influencing the uptake of neonatal bereavement support services – Findings from two tertiary neonatal centres in the UK
Research on perinatal bereavement services is limited. The aim of the study was to compare the uptake of bereavement support services between two tertiary neonatal units (NNU), and to investigate influencing f...
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Improving end of life care in care homes; an evaluation of the six steps to success programme
There are approximately 426,000 people residing within care homes in the UK. Residents often have complex trajectories of dying, which make it difficult for staff to manage their end-of-life care. There is gro...
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Caring for frail older people in the last phase of life – the general practitioners’ view
Frail older people are an increasingly important group in primary care due to demographic change. For these patients, a palliative care approach may be useful to sustain the quality of life in the last phase o...
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Identification and characteristics of patients with palliative care needs in Brazilian primary care
The Brazilian healthcare system offers universal coverage but lacks information about how patients with PC needs are serviced by its primary care program, Estratégia Saúde da Família (ESF).
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Sedation at the end of life - a nation-wide study in palliative care units in Austria
Sedation is used to an increasing extent in end-of-life care. Definitions and indications in this field are based on expert opinions and case series. Little is known about this practice at palliative care unit...
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Integrated palliative care in the Spanish context: a systematic review of the literature
Integrated palliative care (IPC) involves bringing together administrative, organisational, clinical and service aspects in order to achieve continuity of care between all actors involved in the care network o...
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Favored subjects and psychosocial needs in music therapy in terminally ill cancer patients: a content analysis
Research has shown positive effects of music therapy on the physical and mental well-being of terminally ill patients. This study aimed to identify favored subjects and psychosocial needs of terminally ill can...
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A qualitative exploration of the collaborative working between palliative care and geriatric medicine: Barriers and facilitators from a European perspective
With an increasing number of people dying in old age, collaboration between palliative care and geriatric medicine is increasingly being advocated in order to promote better health and health care for the incr...
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A retrospective population based cohort study of access to specialist palliative care in the last year of life: who is still missing out a decade on?
Historically, specialist palliative care has been accessed by a greater proportion of people dying with cancer compared to people with other life-limiting conditions. More recently, a variety of measures to im...
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Cultural perspectives of older nursing home residents regarding signing their own DNR directives in Eastern Taiwan: a qualitative pilot study
Chinese tradition and culture developed from Taoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism and have influenced ethnic Chinese for thousands of years, particularly thoughts on death. Many ethnic Chinese, particularly olde...
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Management of non-ovarian cancer malignant ascites through indwelling catheter drainage
Intra-abdominal placement of the Central Venous Catheter (CVC) was conducted to manage the ascites-related symptoms of non-ovarian cancer patients. The aim of this study is to document the efficacy of symptom ...
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Of apples and oranges: Lessons learned from the preparation of research protocols for systematic reviews exploring the effectiveness of Specialist Palliative Care
Agreed terminology used in systematic reviews of the effectiveness of specialist palliative care ((S)PC)) is required to ensure consistency and usability and to help guide future similar reviews and the design...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:43 -
Mortality in a cohort of complex patients with chronic illnesses and multimorbidity: a descriptive longitudinal study
Certain advanced chronic conditions (heart failure, chronic lung disease) are associated with high mortality. Nevertheless, most of the time, patients with these conditions are not given the same level of atte...
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Development and pilot evaluation of a home-based palliative care training and support package for young children in southern Africa
The leading cause of death among young children in southern Africa is complications due to HIV infection and, in South Africa, over a third of all deaths of children younger than five are associated with HIV i...
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A palliative care link nurse programme in Mulago Hospital, Uganda: an evaluation using mixed methods
Integrating palliative care (PC) and empowering the health care workforce is essential to achieve universal access to PC services. In 2010, 46 % of patients in Mulago Hospital, Uganda had a life limiting illne...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:40 -
Timely identification of palliative patients and anticipatory care planning by GPs: practical application of tools and a training programme
Palliative care is mainly restricted to terminal care. General practitioners (GPs) are not trained to early identify palliative patients with cancer, COPD or heart failure. With the help of the RADboud indicat...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:39 -
End-of-life decisions in acute stroke patients: an observational cohort study
Crucial issues of modern stroke care include best practice end-of-life-decision (EOLD)-making procedures and the provision of high-quality palliative care for dying stroke patients.
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:38 -
A qualitative evaluation of the impact of a palliative care course on preregistration nursing students’ practice in Cameroon
Current evidence suggests that palliative care education can improve preregistration nursing students’ competencies in palliative care. However, it is not known whether these competencies are translated into s...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:37 -
Developing research priorities for palliative care of people with intellectual disabilities in Europe: a consultation process using nominal group technique
Empirical knowledge around palliative care provision and needs of people with intellectual disabilities is extremely limited, as is the availability of research resources, including expertise and funding. This...
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HOLD study (Home care Obstructive Lung Disease): natural history of patients with advanced COPD
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the fourth cause of death in western countries. Its final stage has clearly been forgotten by medical research in recent years. There exists consensus regarding ...
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An exploration of contextual dimensions impacting goals of care conversations in postgraduate medical education
Postgraduate medical trainees are not well prepared difficult conversations about goals of care with patients and families in the acute care clinical setting. While contextual nuances within the workplace can ...
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Palliative chemotherapy: oxymoron or misunderstanding?
Oncologists routinely prescribe chemotherapy for patients with advanced cancer. This practice is sometimes misunderstood by palliative care clinicians, yet data clearly show that chemotherapy can be a powerful...
Citation: BMC Palliative Care 2016 15:33
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