Related Articles Predictive model of complexity in early palliative care: a cohort of advanced cancer patients (PALCOM study). Support Care Cancer. 2018 Jan;26(1):241-249 Authors: Tuca A, Gómez-Martínez M, Prat A Abstract PROPOSAL: Model of early palliative care (PC) integrated in oncology is based on shared care from the diagnosis to the end of life and is mainly focused on patients with greater complexity. However, there is no definition or tools to evaluate PC complexity. The objectives of the study were to identify the factors influencing level determination of complexity, propose predictive models, and build a complexity scale of PC. PATIENTS…
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Related Articles Beyond death and dying: how Chinese spouses navigate the final days with their loved ones suffering from terminal cancer. Support Care Cancer. 2018 Jan;26(1):261-267 Authors: Chung BPM, Leung D, Leung SM, Loke AY Abstract While advances in biomedicine exist for cancer, its diagnosis and treatment still bring the threat of mortality to the forefront of spouses’ lives. Family conflict is largely due to unmet expectations that generate a lot of physical and emotional distress for spouses, as the primary surrogates. Moreover, older individuals in Hong Kong tend to lack control of where they die and who is present…
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Related Articles Decision aids for second-line palliative chemotherapy: a randomised phase II multicentre trial. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2017 Aug 31;17(1):130 Authors: Oostendorp LJM, Ottevanger PB, Donders ART, van de Wouw AJ, Schoenaker IJH, Smilde TJ, van der Graaf WTA, Stalmeier PFM Abstract BACKGROUND: There is increasing recognition of the delicate balance between the modest benefits of palliative chemotherapy and the burden of treatment. Decision aids (DAs) can potentially help patients with advanced cancer with these difficult treatment decisions, but providing detailed information could have an adverse impact on patients’ well-being. The objective of this randomised phase II study…
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Related Articles Politics and palliative care: Gabon. Int J Palliat Nurs. 2018 Jan 02;24(1):50 Authors: Smyth D Abstract Dion Smyth’s review of palliative nursing on the internet. PMID: 29368552 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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Related Articles Complex contradictions in conceptualisations of ‘dignity’ in palliative care. Int J Palliat Nurs. 2018 Jan 02;24(1):12-21 Authors: Williams L, Trussardi G, Black S, Moeke-Maxwell T, Frey R, Robinson J, Gott M Abstract BACKGROUND: Internationally, increasing attention is being paid to understanding patient experiences of health care. Within palliative care, the Views of Informal Carers – Evaluation of Services (VOICES) questionnaire is commonly used for this purpose. Among its objectives is to ask family members if their relatives were treated with dignity at the end of life. This is regarded as useful for understanding the quality of the health…
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