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Symptom Burden and Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Dependency Among Home Health care Patients Discharged to Home Hospice
Symptom Burden and Activity of Daily Living (ADL) Dependency Among Home Health care Patients Discharged to Home Hospice
Background: We sought to examine sociodemographic and clinical characteristics present on admission to HHC associated with...
Advance Care Planning for Emergency Department Patients With COVID-19 Infection: An Assessment of a Physician Training Program
Advance Care Planning for Emergency Department Patients With COVID-19 Infection: An Assessment of a Physician Training Program
ObjectiveCoronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has heightened the importance of advance care planning (ACP), particularly in...
The Impact of a Neurocritical Care and Neuropalliative Collaboration on Intensive Care Unit Outcomes
The Impact of a Neurocritical Care and Neuropalliative Collaboration on Intensive Care Unit Outcomes
Background: Neurocritical care (NCC) and neuropalliative care (NPC) clinicians provide care in specialized intensive care ...
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Utilization of the Inpatient Hospice Services (General Inpatient Hospice)
Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Utilization of the Inpatient Hospice Services (General Inpatient Hospice)
Background: Our institution has been offering the General inpatient hospice (GIP) services within the premises of our hosp...
Symptomatic Features and Factors Associated With Do-Not-Resuscitate Consent in Advanced Cancer Patients Admitted to Palliative Care Ward
Symptomatic Features and Factors Associated With Do-Not-Resuscitate Consent in Advanced Cancer Patients Admitted to Palliative Care Ward
This study aimed to conduct a retrospective cross-sectional study to investigate the prevalence of symptoms and symptom cl...
Development of a Longitudinal Dataset of Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers Through End-of-Life: A Statistical Analysis System Algorithm for Joining National Health and Aging Trends Study/National Study of Caregiving
Development of a Longitudinal Dataset of Persons With Dementia and Their Caregivers Through End-of-Life: A Statistical Analysis System Algorithm for Joining National Health and Aging Trends Study/National Study of Caregiving
Background: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (AD/ADRD) are terminal conditions impacting families and caregivers,...
Establishing the Groundwork for Clinical Trials With Hiccupops® for Hiccup Palliation
Establishing the Groundwork for Clinical Trials With Hiccupops® for Hiccup Palliation
ObjectiveBecause hiccup palliation remains an unmet clinical need, we report here on an early experience with Hiccupops, ®...
Are Young Adults Ready to Complete Advance Directives?
Are Young Adults Ready to Complete Advance Directives?
Introduction: The dual objective of this study is to examine the perspectives of young adults toward advance directives (A...
Communicating With Nursing Home Residents About End of Life
Communicating With Nursing Home Residents About End of Life
Approximately 33% of the 1.2 million older individuals residing in nursing homes have the capacity to discuss their prefer...
Pediatric End-of-Life Care in Rural America: A Systematic Review
Pediatric End-of-Life Care in Rural America: A Systematic Review
Background: Families increasingly desire to bring their children home from the acute care setting at end of life. This tra...
Assessing Quality in Advance Care Planning Documentation: A Survey of Current Methods
Assessing Quality in Advance Care Planning Documentation: A Survey of Current Methods
BackgroundHigh-quality advance care planning (ACP) documentation facilitates the communication of patients’ wishes as they...
Factors that Influence End-Of-Life Decision Making Amongst Attending Physicians
Factors that Influence End-Of-Life Decision Making Amongst Attending Physicians
Background: Medical advances prolong life and treat illness but many patients have chronically debilitating conditions tha...
Truth Disclosure at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Internal Medicine Residents in the United Arab Emirates
Truth Disclosure at the End of Life: A Qualitative Study of Internal Medicine Residents in the United Arab Emirates
BackgroundRespect for patient autonomy has become the guiding biomedical ethical tenet in the West; yet, moral values are ...
A Systematized Approach to Advancing the Quality of Community-Based Palliative Care
A Systematized Approach to Advancing the Quality of Community-Based Palliative Care
Despite growing recognition of the importance of community-based palliative care, optimizing the use of services continues...
Corrigendum to Challenges of dental hygienists in a multidisciplinary team approach during palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: a nationwide study
Corrigendum to Challenges of dental hygienists in a multidisciplinary team approach during palliative care for patients with advanced cancer: a nationwide study
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Difficulties in Addressing Artificial Hydration and Nutrition Therapy for Terminal Cancer Patients: What to do if Patients/Families’ Wishes Differ From the Medically Appropriate Treatment Plans?
Difficulties in Addressing Artificial Hydration and Nutrition Therapy for Terminal Cancer Patients: What to do if Patients/Families’ Wishes Differ From the Medically Appropriate Treatment Plans?
Purpose: Artificial hydration and nutrition therapy (AHNT) initiated by patients/families sometimes differs from medically...
The Healthcare Journey of Women With Advanced Gynecological Cancer From Diagnosis Through Terminal Illness: Qualitative Analysis of Progress Note Data
The Healthcare Journey of Women With Advanced Gynecological Cancer From Diagnosis Through Terminal Illness: Qualitative Analysis of Progress Note Data
ObjectiveTo examine women’s journeys with gynecologic cancer from before diagnosis through death and identify elements of ...
Association Among End-Of-Life Discussions, Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life at End of Life, and Bereaved Families’ Mental Health
Association Among End-Of-Life Discussions, Cancer Patients’ Quality of Life at End of Life, and Bereaved Families’ Mental Health
End-of-life discussions are essential for patients with advanced cancer, but there is little evidence about whether these ...
A Secondary Analysis of the Intensity of Hospice Visits Among Medicare Decedents in the Last Seven Days of Life by Place of Residence
A Secondary Analysis of the Intensity of Hospice Visits Among Medicare Decedents in the Last Seven Days of Life by Place of Residence
BackgroundIn 2016, Medicare finalized the Service Intensity Add-on (SIA) payment policy to increase the intensity of hospi...
Harm Versus Burden
Harm Versus Burden
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Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Palliative Care Professionals and Services: A Mixed-Methods Survey Study
Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health of Palliative Care Professionals and Services: A Mixed-Methods Survey Study
IntroductionThis study aimed to examine the mental health of palliative care professionals in Hong Kong during the COVID-1...
Impact of Quality of Communication With Clinicians on Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life Among Korean Family Caregivers in End-of-Life Care Settings
Impact of Quality of Communication With Clinicians on Depression, Anxiety, and Quality of Life Among Korean Family Caregivers in End-of-Life Care Settings
1. Vig, EK, Starks, H, Taylor, JS, Hopley, EK, Fryer-Edwards, K. Surviving surrogate decision-making: what helps and hampe...
A Qualitative Study of the Role of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Experiences Among Critical Care Clinicians, Hospital Leaders, and Spiritual Care Providers
A Qualitative Study of the Role of Palliative Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perceptions and Experiences Among Critical Care Clinicians, Hospital Leaders, and Spiritual Care Providers
BackgroundPalliative care offers a unique skill set in response to challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, with experti...
Development of an Abstraction Tool to Assess Palliative Care Components
Development of an Abstraction Tool to Assess Palliative Care Components
Background: Little is known regarding the fidelity of delivery of guideline-recommended components of palliative care in “...
Hospital-Based Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
Hospital-Based Palliative and End-of-Life Care in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review
Aim: To identify the nature of the evidence reporting hospital-based palliative and end-of-life care during the COVID-19 p...
Treatment of Positive Urine Cultures at End-of-Life and the Effect on Terminal Delirium Management
Treatment of Positive Urine Cultures at End-of-Life and the Effect on Terminal Delirium Management
Background: The decision to initiate antibiotics in hospice patients that are very near end-of-life is a complex ethical a...
Learn to Live Again
Learn to Live Again
The COVID-19 pandemic has claimed more than 4.5 million lives so far throughout the world. These sudden, unnatural, and un...
The Virulence of Grief in the Pandemic: Bereavement Overload During COVID
The Virulence of Grief in the Pandemic: Bereavement Overload During COVID
The COVID-19 pandemic brought about bereavement overload as a risk factor for complicated grief. Bereavement overload (BO)...
Advance Care Planning and Healthcare Utilization in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Retrospective Chart Review
Advance Care Planning and Healthcare Utilization in Patients With Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: A Retrospective Chart Review
Background: Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive neuromuscular disorder resulting in functional decline an...
Factors Influencing Potentially Futile Treatments at the End of Life in a Multiethnic Asian Cardiology Setting: A Qualitative Study
Factors Influencing Potentially Futile Treatments at the End of Life in a Multiethnic Asian Cardiology Setting: A Qualitative Study
Background. Modern medicine enables clinicians to save lives and prolong time to death, yet some treatments have little ch...
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