Association between the availability of hospital-based palliative care and treatment intensity for critically ill patients

M Hua, X Ma, RS Morrison, G Li… - Annals of the American …, 2018 - atsjournals.org
palliative care for critically ill patients by examining the relationship between the availability
of hospital-based palliative care … patients with acute critical illness [abstract]. Am J Respir Crit …

Feasibility of a home-based palliative care intervention for elderly multimorbid survivors of critical illness

FB Mayr, JL Plowman, S Blakowski… - … Journal of Critical Care, 2021 - AACN
… A comprehensive home-based palliative care intervention is operationally feasible in elderly
multi-morbid survivors of critical illness and may result in improved physical functioning and …

Palliative Care in the Intensive Care Unit: A Universal Need

AN Gustin - Difficult Decisions in Cardiothoracic Critical Care …, 2019 - Springer
… USA based national organization best practice guidelines propose that palliative care
should be integrated into the care of any patient with chronic disease or critical illness. From the …

Impact of critical care medicine training programs' palliative care education and bedside tools on ICU use at the end of life

HL Saft, PS Richman, AR Berman… - Journal of …, 2014 - meridian.allenpress.com
… Our findings demonstrate that the quality of palliative care education in critical care medicine
… the practice of critical care physicians and quality of education related to palliative care.13 …

Development of the palliative care of dying critically ill patients algorithm: Implications for critical care nurses

S Grossman - Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing, 2013 - journals.lww.com
… in comfort with their palliative care skills. Based on the success of this pilot program, focused
palliative care simulated cases will be repeated in the critical care nursing course in the …

[PDF][PDF] Discourse/Discours-Chronic Illness, Palliative Care, and the Problematic Nature of Dying

KI Stajduhar - Canadian Journal of Nursing Research Archive, 2011 - cjnr.archive.mcgill.ca
Palliative care is for people with … care, in places (hospices, palliative care units, home)
where dying people should be cared for. These notions are reflected in interviews with acutecare

Identifying and overcoming the barriers to high-quality palliative care in the intensive care unit

JE Nelson - Critical care medicine, 2006 - journals.lww.com
… It is for these reasons that integration of palliative care throughout the course of critical
illness is increasingly advocated as a general strategy for improving the quality of end-of-life …

Proactive palliative care in the medical intensive care unit: effects on length of stay for selected high-risk patients

SA Norton, LA Hogan, RG Holloway… - Critical care …, 2007 - journals.lww.com
… The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of proactive palliative care
consultation on length of stay for high-risk patients in the medical intensive care unit (MICU). …

Integrating palliative care in the ICU: the nurse in a leading role

JE Nelson, TB Cortez, JR Curtis… - … Hospice & Palliative …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… Nurses can be particularly effective in providing information about critical illness and treatment
in clear terms that laypeople understand, with sensitivity and compassion. After a family …

Palliative and end-of-life care: prioritizing compassion within the ICU and beyond

RA Aslakson, CE Cox, JG Baggs… - Critical care medicine, 2021 - journals.lww.com
… and skills in palliative care (“specialty” palliative care, ie, practitioners of the specialty of …
in 3-month psychologic symptoms with the critical illness education program. There were no …