Related Articles Few Hospital Palliative Care Programs Meet National Staffing Recommendations. Health Aff (Millwood). 2016 Sep 01;35(9):1690-7 Authors: Spetz J, Dudley N, Trupin L, Rogers M, Meier DE, Dumanovsky T Abstract The predominant model for palliative care delivery, outside of hospice care, is the hospital-based consultative team. Although a majority of US hospitals offer palliative care services, there has been little research on the staffing of their program teams and whether those teams meet national guidelines, such as the Joint Commission’s standard of including at least one physician, an advanced practice or other registered nurse, a social worker, and a…
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Related Articles Patient-centeredness to anticipate and organize an end-of-life project for patients receiving at-home palliative care: a phenomenological study. BMC Fam Pract. 2017 Feb 23;18(1):27 Authors: Oude Engberink A, Badin M, Serayet P, Pavageau S, Lucas F, Bourrel G, Norton J, Ninot G, Senesse P Abstract BACKGROUND: The development of end-of-life primary care is a socio-medical and ethical challenge. However, general practitioners (GPs) face many difficulties when initiating appropriate discussion on proactive shared palliative care. Anticipating palliative care is increasingly important given the ageing population and is an aim shared by many countries. We aimed to examine how French GPs…
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Related Articles Understanding the Hybrid Stage I Approach for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Crit Care Nurse. 2016 Oct;36(5):48-55 Authors: Cheatham SL, Deyo GM Abstract Hybrid stage I palliation combines cardiothoracic surgery and interventional transcatheter procedures for treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome. The approach is an alternative to the Norwood procedure, the traditional first stage of surgical palliation. Hybrid stage I palliation involves placing bilateral branch pulmonary artery bands and a patent ductus arteriosus stent through a median sternotomy, performed without cardiopulmonary bypass. The purpose of the bands is to control blood flow to the lungs and protect the pulmonary…
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Related Articles Strategies for Promoting High-Quality Care and Personal Resilience in Palliative Care. AMA J Ethics. 2017 Jun 01;19(6):601-607 Authors: Heinze KE, Holtz HK, Rushton CH Abstract Palliative care (PC) clinicians are faced with ever-expanding pressures, which can make it difficult to fulfill their duties to self and others and lead to moral distress. Understanding the pressures that PC clinicians face and the resources that could be employed to ease their moral distress is crucial to maintaining a healthy PC workforce and to providing necessary PC services to patients. In this paper, we discuss recommendations related to two promising pathways…
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Related Articles End of Life in Prison. J Correct Health Care. 2017 Jan;23(1):11-19 Authors: Richter M, Hostettler U Abstract What a good end of life means is a particularly relevant question in the context of confinement and prison. Most of the questions and issues raised by end of life for those living in liberty also apply to the correctional setting. However, the institutional particularities and logics of the prison create unique barriers and make it difficult in practice to reconcile concerns in regard to end of life-like care and comfort-with the mandate of corrections-confinement and punishment. At present, the literature…
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