Related Articles Why do we offer palliative care so late to patients with liver disease? Lancet Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2018 04;3(4):225-226 Authors: Low J, Marshall A, Craig R, Davis S, Gola A, Greenslade L, Henawi N, Stone P, Vickerstaff V, Wilson J, Thorburn D PMID: 29533195 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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Related Articles Effects of a Simulation Exercise on Nursing Students’ End-of-Life Care Attitudes. J Nurs Educ. 2016 Dec 01;55(12):701-705 Authors: Dame L, Hoebeke R Abstract BACKGROUND: Students consider end-of-life care content in their nursing curricula to be inadequate and deficient in promoting the development of the necessary attitudes to care for dying patients. Research identifies simulation as an effective teaching strategy to examine nursing students’ attitudes toward end-of-life care. METHOD: An end-of-life care simulation was developed, implemented, and evaluated. Attitudes toward caring for dying patients were measured pre- and postsimulation on a convenience sample of 57 sophomore nursing students using…
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Related Articles Palliative Reirradiation for Painful Bone Metastases: Clinical Cases and Literature Review. Kurume Med J. 2018 Feb 26;64(1.2):5-11 Authors: Suzuki G, Yamazaki H, Aibe N, Masui K, Sasaki N, Tatekawa K, Shimizu D, Kimoto T, Nishimura T, Nakashima A, Yamada K Abstract Reirradiation to previously irradiated peripheral bone metastases for pain has been shown to be safe and effective, but no specific trial has been completed to define the indications for reirradiation of patients with recurrent symptoms of metastatic bone disease. Thus, we aimed to assess the effectiveness and prognostic factors of reirradiation for painful bone metastases. To do…
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Related Articles Endoscopic treatment of tracheo-oesophageal fistulae: an innovative procedure. Multimed Man Cardiothorac Surg. 2016 Oct 05;2017: Authors: Galluccio G Abstract Tracheo-oesophageal fistulas represent a major complication of prolonged intubation and may cause death. Surgical repair is a complex procedure that can be challenging in compromised patients. In this study, we describe a simple endoscopic technique that resulted in the effective palliation of symptoms. PMID: 28106969 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
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