Acta Biomed. 2021 Dec 22;92(S2):e2021335. doi: 10.23750/abm.v92iS2.12650.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE WORK: Expressive Writing (EW) is a useful tool for taking care of the person globally, and literature shows that self-care and self-awareness improve the coping skills of health professionals, positively increasing personal and professional satisfaction and reducing the negative aspects related to the profession, such as burnout. The objective of the research is to analyze the writings produced by healthcare professionals belonging to palliative care in a previous quantitative study to identify any changes between two sessions.METHODS: It is a longitudinal qualitative research with an interpretative phenomenological methodology of…
Origen: The effects of Expressing Writing on Palliative Care healthcare professionals: a qualitative study – PubMed

BMC Palliat Care. 2022 Jan 16;21(1):11. doi: 10.1186/s12904-022-00901-y.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: Depression is prevalent in people with very poor prognoses (days to weeks). Clinical practices and perceptions of palliative physicians towards depression care have not been characterised in this setting. The objective of this study was to characterise current palliative clinicians’ reported practices and perceptions in depression screening, assessment and management in the very poor prognosis setting.METHODS: In this cross-sectional cohort study, 72 palliative physicians and 32 psychiatrists were recruited from Australian and New Zealand Society of Palliative Medicine and Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists between February and July 2020…
Origen: Caring for depression in the dying is complex and challenging – survey of palliative physicians – PubMed

BMC Palliat Care. 2022 Jan 13;21(1):10. doi: 10.1186/s12904-021-00898-w.ABSTRACTBACKGROUND: In the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, general and specialist Palliative Care (PC) plays an essential role in health care, contributing to symptom control, psycho-social support, and providing support in complex decision making. Numbers of COVID-19 related deaths have recently increased demanding more palliative care input. Also, the pandemic impacts on palliative care for non-COVID-19 patients. Strategies on the care for seriously ill and dying people in pandemic times are lacking. Therefore, the program ‘Palliative care in Pandemics’ (PallPan) aims to develop and consent a national pandemic plan for the care of seriously ill and…
Origen: National strategy for palliative care of severely ill and dying people and their relatives in pandemics (PallPan) in Germany – study protocol of a mixed-methods project – PubMed

Pediatr Ann. 2022 Jan;51(1):e40-e46. doi: 10.3928/19382359-20211214-01. Epub 2022 Jan 1.ABSTRACTPalliative care should be integrated along the continuum for all children living with life-limiting illness. Many misconceptions about palliative care exist, including the misunderstanding that palliative and curative care are mutually exclusive. Many associate palliative care with hospice and do not recognize that palliative care is available and beneficial before end of life. Palliative care should be initiated at the time a family receives a life-limiting diagnosis and should continue throughout the child’s life. Children may have a better quality of life and even longer life span when palliative care has…
Origen: Palliative Care Across the Continuum of Childhood – PubMed

Rev Paul Pediatr. 2022 Jan 5;40:e2021002. doi: 10.1590/1984-0462/2022/40/2021002. eCollection 2022.ABSTRACTOBJECTIVE: To perform a systematic review of the health economic evidence on the care of children and adolescents with complex clinical conditions, comparing groups included and not included (control group) in palliative care at the end of life.DATA SOURCE: The seven databases searched were PubMed, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Virtual Health Library-Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (VHL-LILACS), EBSCOhost, and Paediatric Economic Database Evaluation, following recommendations of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) Statement, from January 1979 to November 2020. The review included studies…
Origen: Pediatric palliative care and end-of-life: a systematic review of economic health analyses – PubMed