Objectives: To study the utilization of public health care by advanced cancer patients in their
last 6 months of life and their end-of-life process within the last 2 weeks of life. Methods: This …

Aims and objectives. Few surveys have been carried out documenting the quality of life for
non‐cancer patients in general district hospitals reaching the final trajectory towards death …

Objective: This study aims to investigate the meaning of nursing care for patients with
terminalstage cancer in acute care units in general hospitals by analyzing the experiences …

Purpose: This study was conducted to assess needs at each end-of-life care stage and to
analyze importance and difficulty of care needs for home care nursing among non-cancer …

In Japan, it has been more common for elderly people to die in a hospital than at home.
However, recently, increasingly more elderly people want to die where they have been living …

Objective: The present study aimed to develop a scale to assess end-of-life nursing care
provided by home-visit nurses for cancer patients and examine its reliability and validity …

Aim To evaluate the prognosis of the patients who had visiting nurse service and discuss the
place of death (life at the terminal stage). To determine the roles of visiting nurses in …

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES: To describe nurses' expanded roles during end-of-life patient care
considering changing attitudes toward death and the use of increased technology in medical …

Background: As the population ages, the prevalence of various chronic diseases increases.
Palliative care for patients at the end of life with a noncancer diagnosis is currently limited …

After an anxious wait following a prolonged gestation, the Department of Health's (DH) End
of Life Core Strategy for England was delivered on July 16 2008. As is common at all births …