Related Articles Palliative care for patients with communication and cognitive difficulties. Can Fam Physician. 2019 Apr;65(Suppl 1):S19-S24 Authors: Sue K, Mazzotta P, Grier E Abstract OBJECTIVE: To help increase the confidence of both caregivers and clinicians in providing palliative care to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) using an easy-to-follow framework to improve and overcome barriers to effective palliative care in this population. QUALITY OF EVIDENCE: A literature review was conducted to explore recent best evidence to address these palliative care needs and to allow for a focused opportunity to consider the details of implementing clinical practice guidelines in…
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Related Articles Palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor prolonged survival for metastatic esophageal cancer. Cancer Med. 2019 12;8(17):7253-7264 Authors: Xu J, Lu D, Zhang L, Li J, Sun G Abstract PURPOSE: We aimed to explore the value of palliative resection or radiation of primary tumor for metastatic esophageal cancer (EC) patients. METHODS: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database was used for identifying metastatic EC patients. The patients were divided into resection and nonresection groups. And patients without resection were divided into radiation and nonradiation groups. Propensity score matching (PSM) analyses were adopted to reduce the baseline differences between the…
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Related Articles Improved Quality of Death and Dying in Care Homes: A Palliative Care Stepped Wedge Randomized Control Trial in Australia. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2020 02;68(2):305-312 Authors: Liu WM, Koerner J, Lam L, Johnston N, Samara J, Chapman M, Forbat L Abstract OBJECTIVES: Mortality in care homes is high, but care of dying residents is often suboptimal, and many services do not have easy access to specialist palliative care. This study examined the impact of providing specialist palliative care on residents’ quality of death and dying. DESIGN: Using a stepped wedge randomized control trial, care homes were randomly assigned…
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Related Articles End-of-life care in patients with advanced heart failure. Curr Opin Cardiol. 2020 03;35(2):156-161 Authors: Diamant MJ, Keshmiri H, Toma M Abstract PURPOSE OF REVIEW: With an aging population with heart failure, there is a growing need for end-of-life care in this population, including a focus on symptom management and quality-of-life considerations. RECENT FINDINGS: Targeted therapies focusing on symptom control and improving quality of life is the cornerstone of providing care in patients with heart failure near the end of life. Such therapies, including the use of inotropes for palliative purposes, have been shown to improve symptoms without an…
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Related Articles Hopelessness in palliative care for people with motor neurone disease: Conceptual considerations. Nurs Ethics. 2020 Feb;27(1):316-320 Authors: Poppe C Abstract The concepts of hope and its absence, hopelessness, are seen as crucial in palliative care for people with motor neurone disease. A primary measure in psychological research on hopelessness in people with motor neurone disease is the Beck Hopelessness Scale. This scale can be understood as being conceptually based on the philosophical standard account of hope, which understands hope as an intentional expectancy. This essay argues that this is a misconstruction of hopelessness in palliative care. Rather, pre-intentional…
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