Related Articles Palliative Care in Heart Failure. Crit Care Nurs Clin North Am. 2015 Dec;27(4):577-87 Authors: Hupcey JE, Kitko L, Alonso W Abstract The number of patients with heart failure is growing; the associated morbidity and mortality remains dismal. Advance care planning, end-of-life conversations, and palliative care referrals are appropriate, but do not occur regularly. Palliative care focuses on patients and families from diagnosis, to hospice, death, and bereavement. It is delivered as basic palliative care by all providers and by specialty-certified palliative care specialists. Nurses are well-positioned to provide basic. Nurses are also instrumental in initiating referrals to the…
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Related Articles «Unexpected and Distressing»: Understanding and Improving the Experience of Transferring Palliative Care Inpatients to Residential Care. J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2017 Apr-Sep;13(2-3):193-204 Authors: Kallianis V, Joubert L, Gorman S, Posenelli S, Lethborg C Abstract The survival of patients with advanced cancer, coupled with the increased presence of end-stage chronic illnesses in an aging population, is leading to a demand in palliative care. Due to the ongoing need for acute-pain and symptom control in hospice/palliative care units, few are able to offer long-stay admission for those whose symptoms have stabilized. When a patient no longer requires…
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Related Articles Palliative Care in Critical Rural Settings. Crit Care Nurse. 2016 Feb;36(1):72-8 Authors: Mayer DD, Winters CA Abstract The United States has 1332 critical access hospitals. These hospitals have fewer than 25 beds each and a mean daily census of 4.2 patients. Critical access hospitals are located in rural areas and provide acute inpatient services, ambulatory care, labor and delivery services, and general surgery. Some, but not all, critical access hospitals offer home care services; a few have palliative care programs. Because of the millions of patients living with serious and life-threatening conditions, the need for palliative care is…
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Related Articles Prognostic factors in patients with loco-regionally advanced gastric cancer. World J Surg Oncol. 2017 Sep 15;15(1):172 Authors: Hultman B, Gunnarsson U, Nygren P, Sundbom M, Glimelius B, Mahteme H Abstract BACKGROUND: The aim of this study was to investigate epidemiologic and prognostic factors relevant to the treatment of loco-regionally advanced gastric cancer (GC). METHODS: Two hundred and fifty-five patients with GC were identified in Uppsala County between 2000 and 2009. Patient records were analyzed for loco-regionally advanced GC defined as tumor with peritoneal involvement, excluding serosal invasion from the primary tumor only, at primary diagnosis or during follow-up.…
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Related Articles A Structured Approach to End-of-Life Decision Making Improves Quality of Care for Patients With Terminal Illness in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2016 Mar;33(2):144-9 Authors: Edwin AK, Johnson McGee S, Opare-Lokko EA, Gyakobo MK Abstract PURPOSE: To determine whether a structured approach to end-of-life decision-making directed by a compassionate interdisciplinary team would improve the quality of care for patients with terminal illness in a teaching hospital in Ghana. FINDINGS: A retrospective analysis was done for 20 patients who consented to participate in the structured approach to end-of-life decision-making. Twenty patients whose care did…
Origen: A Structured Approach to End-of-Life Decision Making Improves Quality of Care for Patients With Terminal Illness in a Teaching Hospital in Ghana. – PubMed