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2 天之前 · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care holds an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical …
Palliative care screening tools and patient outcomes: a systematic ...
2024年8月24日 · Background Palliative care (PC) refers to providing patients with physical, psychological, mental, and other care and humanistic care services in a multidisciplinary collaborative mode with end-of-stage patients and family members as the centre. The PC screening tool (PCST) was developed to identify individuals who may benefit from PC services and is widely assumed to improve patient outcomes.
Impact of dementia on informal care: a systematic review of family ...
Introduction Caregivers play a major role in providing all the support and care in daily activities for their relatives with dementia. To fully describe the influence of dementia caregiving on family caregivers’ life, we conducted a systematic review including caregivers’ perceptions about the positive and negative aspects of caring and the expressed factors. Materials and methods We ...
End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death
Place of death. Place of death is widely used as a quality metric in end-of-life care policy in high-income countries.7–10 In policy it has been deployed in a range of ways: as a ‘vital sign’ focusing on the ‘proportion of all deaths that occur at home’25; as a focus on deaths in ‘usual place of residence’ (in residential, care and nursing homes); and more recently to assess ...
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Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance. We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care ...
Palliative and end-of-life care and junior doctors: a systematic …
Introduction. Acute hospital wards are the most prevalent place of death across the world: 47.4% of deaths in England and Wales in 20161 and 58% globally.2 Most hospital palliative and end-of-life care is provided by patients’ normal clinical teams rather than palliative care specialists,3 where junior doctors mainly work and are at the front line of end-of-life care provision.4
Screening instruments for early identification of unmet palliative …
Background The early detection of individuals who require palliative care is essential for the timely initiation of palliative care services. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to (1) Identify the screening instruments used by health professionals to promote early identification of patients who may benefit from palliative care; and (2) Assess the psychometric properties and ...
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2024年5月1日 · Supportive interventions for carers of men with prostate cancer: systematic review and narrative synthesis (1 June, 2023) NatalieWinter, HannahJongebloed, AnnaGreen, AnnaUgalde, Patricia MLivingston. Integrative oncology in cancer care – implementation factors: mixed-methods systematic review (12 May, 2023)
Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis
Background Community-based and home-based palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) services, often underpinned by primary care provision, are becoming increasingly popular. One of the key challenges associated with them is their timely initiation. The latter requires an accurate enough prediction of how close to death a patient is. Methods Using ‘realist synthesis’ tools, this …
Antibiotic use towards the end of life: development of good …
2021年9月26日 · Objectives Development of evidence-based good practice recommendations for clinicians considering the use of antibiotics in patients towards the end of life. Design A multiprofessional group of experts in end-of-life care and antimicrobial stewardship was convened. Findings from a scoping review of the literature and a consultation of clinicians were triangulated. Expert discussion was used to ...