Related Articles Palliative Care Utilization Among Patients With COVID-19 in an Underserved Population: A Single-Center Retrospective Study. J Pain Symptom Manage. 2020 08;60(2):e18-e21 Authors: Haydar A, Lo KB, Goyal A, Gul F, Peterson E, Bhargav R, DeJoy R, Salacup G, Pelayo J, Albano J, Azmaiparashvili Z, Ansari H, Aponte GP Abstract BACKGROUND: As health-care institutions mobilize resources to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, palliative care may potentially be underutilized. It is important to assess the use of palliative care in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: This is a retrospective single-center study of patients with COVID-19 diagnosed via…
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Related Articles Interventional radiology for treatment of bone metastases. Cancer Radiother. 2020 Aug;24(5):374-378 Authors: Hayek G, Kastler B Abstract Therapeutic advances in oncology have led to longer survival in many forms of cancer, including those complicated by bone metastases. When a bone metastasis is painful or when there is a risk of fracture, interventional radiology procedures can be carried out for pain control and/or stabilisation. All of these techniques can be performed under local anaesthesia. Cementoplasty and vertebroplasty are stabilisation procedures consisting in the percutaneous injection of acrylic cement into a lytic bone lesion. The effect on pain can be…
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Related Articles Palliative care in primary health care: scoping review. Rev Lat Am Enfermagem. 2020;28:e3324 Authors: Justino ET, Kasper M, Santos KDS, Quaglio RC, Fortuna CM Abstract OBJECTIVE: to map the available evidence on the main topics investigated in palliative care in primary health care. METHOD: scoping review type study carried out in five databases, including original articles, based on the descriptors palliative care, palliative care at the end of life, terminal care, terminal state, primary health care and their respective acronyms and synonyms, totaling 18 publications. The extraction of data from primary studies was performed using an instrument produced…
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Related Articles Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: population based matched cohort study. BMJ. 2020 07 06;370:m2257 Authors: Quinn KL, Stukel T, Stall NM, Huang A, Isenberg S, Tanuseputro P, Goldman R, Cram P, Kavalieratos D, Detsky AS, Bell CM Abstract OBJECTIVE: To measure the associations between newly initiated palliative care in the last six months of life, healthcare use, and location of death in adults dying from non-cancer illness, and to compare these associations with those in adults who die from cancer at a population level. DESIGN: Population based matched cohort study.…
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Related Articles «How Long Have I Got?»-A Prospective Cohort Study Comparing Validated Prognostic Factors for Use in Patients with Advanced Cancer. Oncologist. 2019 09;24(9):e960-e967 Authors: Simmons C, McMillan DC, Tuck S, Graham C, McKeown A, Bennett M, O’Neill C, Wilcock A, Usborne C, Fearon KC, Fallon M, Laird BJ, IPAC Study Group Abstract BACKGROUND: The optimal prognostic factors in patients with advanced cancer are not known, as a comparison of these is lacking. The aim of the present study was to determine the optimal prognostic factors by comparing validated factors. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A multicenter, prospective observational cohort study recruited…
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