Palliative care in heart failure: what triggers specialist consultation?

MA Psotka, KY McKee, AY Liu, G Elia… - Progress in …, 2017 - Elsevier
… – for example, by a patient's primary care physician or cardiologist. Specialized palliative
care consultation is commonly requested by the primary patient care team and often only exists …

Effectiveness of specialized palliative care: a systematic review

C Zimmermann, R Riechelmann, M Krzyzanowska… - Jama, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
… We selected reports of RCTs evaluating intervention of a specialized palliative care service,
… with care, or economic cost. A specialized palliative care service was defined as a service of …

… review of models of effective community specialist palliative care services for evidence of improved patient-related outcomes, equity, integration, and health service …

S Iupati, J Stanley, R Egan, R MacLeod… - … of palliative medicine, 2023 - liebertpub.com
specialist palliative care improves patients' symptom score/quality of life and reduces secondary
service utilization when compared with usual carecare coordination enables patients to …

Generalist versus specialist palliative medicine

VS Periyakoil, CF Gunten, S Fischer… - … of Palliative Medicine, 2022 - liebertpub.com
… Is it a better way to promote wide access to specialty palliative care? Looking … palliative
care and reserve specialty palliative care to patients who will benefit most from this level of care? …

Specialist palliative care nursing and the philosophy of palliative care: a critical discussion

J Robinson, M Gott, C Gardiner… - … journal of palliative …, 2017 - magonlinelibrary.com
… Specialisation in palliative care has also been influential in the development of specialist
palliative care nursing roles which require a different set of skills and knowledge. For example, …

Specialized palliative care services are associated with improved short-and long-term caregiver outcomes

AP Abernethy, DC Currow, BS Fazekas… - Supportive Care in …, 2008 - Springer
experience with patients and caregivers in palliative care, the published literature, and
pilot testing of the Health Omnibus Survey [40]. These categories map to the five domains of …

Breaking significant news: The experience of clinical nurse specialists in cancer and palliative care

N Mishelmovich, A Arber, A Odelius - European Journal of Oncology …, 2016 - Elsevier
… of specialist nurses in cancer and palliative care experiences of breaking significant news
to patients with … of these nurses' experiences. The research question was ‘what is it like for …

Issues in prognostication for hospital specialist palliative care doctors and nurses: a qualitative inquiry

D Pontin, N Jordan - Palliative medicine, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… This study highlights the anxiety and uncertainty experienced by specialist hospital palliative
care staff and suggests similar issues affect non-specialists. Further work is required to …

National survey of the current provision of specialist palliative care services for patients with end-stage renal disease

K Hobson, S Gomm, F Murtagh… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) experience a … of specialist palliative care
(SPC) services with these patients … to SPC services for ESRD patients in the UK and considers …

Specialist palliative care needs of whole populations: a feasibility study using a novel approach

DC Currow, AP Abernethy, BS Fazekas - Palliative Medicine, 2004 - journals.sagepub.com
specialized palliative care services (SPCS) have unmet needs is crucial in planning and
evaluating palliative care. … Of those who identified that a palliative service had not been used (38…