Kent Academic Repository Page 1 Oliver, David J. (2018) Improving patient outcomes through
palliative care integration in other specialised health services: what we have learned so …

… that families of decedents who received palliative care … palliative care on end-of-life outcomes
in a large, national cohort of patients undergoing surgery. We focused on 90-day outcomes …

… are distributed between well-functioning, intermediate, and dysfunctional types – levels of
functioning defined in this way are predictive of psychosocial outcomes during palliative care …

… Our initial study found that palliative care needs were … with more family conferences and a
trend toward more palliative care … We compared outcomes of patients and family members on …

… better integrate palliative care and intensive care unit (ICU) care have … review summarizes
these studies and their outcomes. … and family care goals and whether or not the palliative care …

… The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization’s statement calling for … palliative
care states that integrating family goals and values into the care plan can foster good outcomes, “…

Purpose We describe the key elements of early palliative care (PC) across the illness trajectory
and examine whether visit content was associated with patient-reported outcomes and …

… palliative care and family-centered outcomes following hospital discharge. To better
understand the role of specialty palliative care in supporting family … of specialty palliative care …

… for facilitating family meetings. Palliative care nurses were trained to conduct family meetings
… to demonstrate the following outcomes: 1) Family carers reported reduced care needs, 2) …

… palliative care by offering a one-to-one psycho-educational intervention. We hypothesised
that primary family … decreased psychological distress (primary outcome), fewer unmet needs …