BMC Palliat Care. 2022 Feb 15;21(1):22. doi: 10.1186/s12904-021-00899-9.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Emergency department (ED) visits among older adults are common near the end of life. Palliative care has been shown to reduce ED visits and to increase quality of life among patients, but recruitment into these programs is often challenging. This descriptive analysis explores the barriers to enrolling seriously ill patients scheduled for discharge from the ED into palliative care research.METHODS: This descriptive sub-study aims to assess the reasons why patients with advanced illness scheduled for discharge home from 11 EDs across the United States decline to participate in Emergency Medicine Palliative Care…
Origen: Barriers to recruitment into emergency department-initiated palliative care: a sub-study of a multi-site, randomized controlled trial – PubMed

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 29;19(3):1561. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031561.ABSTRACTHope performs an important role in how patients and their families cope with suffering and stressful events. To better inform practice and theory on hope, palliative care research should include both patients and their family carers, given their strong interdependence. The aim of this study was to explore how hope is experienced in dyads formed by end-of-life patients and their family carers. In this qualitative study, data were collected by in-depth interviews with seven Portuguese family dyads. Analysis followed a thematic analysis approach. The analysis of the interviews shed light…
Origen: "Keeping the Light On": A Qualitative Study on Hope Perceptions at the End of Life in Portuguese Family Dyads – PubMed

Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jan 18;19(3):1054. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19031054.ABSTRACTThere are very few programs that identify patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who need palliative care. This cohort study presents a model to use a validated palliative care screening tool (PCST) to systematically identify hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in need of palliative care. In this prospective study, we consecutively recruited patients with COVID-19 admitted to Taipei City Hospital between 1 January and 30 July 2021. Patients’ palliative care needs were determined by using the PCST. Advance care planning (ACP) and advance directives (AD) were systemically provided for all patients…
Origen: Utilization of Palliative Care Screening Tool to Early Identify Patients with COVID-19 Needing Palliative Care: A Cohort Study – PubMed

J Pak Med Assoc. 2021 Jan;71(1(B)):319-325. doi: 10.47391/JPMA.387.ABSTRACTPalliative care has gained considerable attention during last few decades. Increasing demands by the society owing to increased number of elderly and people with chronic illnesses require increased number of health care professionals with competence in providing palliative care. The current review provides a summary of the published literature pertaining to palliative care education in surgical residency programmes internationally and locally. Most surgical residency programmes provide limited, if any, formal education in knowledge and skills related to palliative and end of life care. The situation is alarming in Pakistan where the discipline is…
Origen: Status of the palliative care education in surgical postgraduate curriculum – implications for Pakistan – PubMed

Probl Sotsialnoi Gig Zdravookhranenniiai Istor Med. 2022 Jan;30(1):5-9. doi: 10.32687/0869-866X-2022-30-1-5-9.ABSTRACTThe every patient, receiving palliative medical care, in case of pain syndrome requires specified medicinal therapy often with prescription of narcotic analgesics. The WHO developed the model lists of essential medications (differentiated for adults and children), including both drugs for treatment of the most symptoms in palliative care support and analgesics. The article presents the results of analysis of normative legal acts regulating medication support of citizens of the Russian Federation in case of palliative medical care applying both drugs treating main manifestations of diseases and arresting pain syndrome. It is…
Origen: The medicinal support in palliative medical care: The review of normative legal acts – PubMed