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4 天之前 · 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 …
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 …
Cancer pain self-management interventions in adults: scoping review
Background The predominant trend in cancer treatment now leans towards outpatient care, placing the responsibility of pain management largely on the patients themselves. Moreover, a …
Hydration and symptoms in the last days of life
Introduction. Most patients with a deteriorating chronic illness have a reduced oral intake at the end of life. This may be due to illness or treatment-related symptoms or complications, such as …
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic ...
Background The anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications is recommended practice in controlling distressing symptoms in the last days of life. A 2017 systematic review found …
Intensive care unit interventions to improve quality of dying and …
Background Intensive care units (ICUs) have mortality rates of 10%–29% owing to illness severity. Postintensive care syndrome-family affects bereaved relatives, with a prevalence of 26% at 3 …
Palliative care screening tools and patient outcomes: a systematic ...
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 …
Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic ...
Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well …
Antibiotic use towards the end of life: development of good …
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 …
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In an international context, many different categories of clinician and healthcare workers do clinical work associated with palliative medicine, specialist or generalist palliative care, …