Palliative care
AH Moss, JL Holley, SN Davison, RA Dart… - American Journal of …, 2004 - ajkd.org
… and impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems, physical, psychosocial,
and spiritual. … Terminal care protocols including hospice or a palliative care approach. …
and spiritual. … Terminal care protocols including hospice or a palliative care approach. …
Palliative care
PA Kvale, M Simoff, UBS Prakash - Chest, 2003 - Elsevier
… 37 If patients with brain metastases are not treated, neurologic deterioration occurs quickly.
39 There are four methods currently available to treat patients with metastatic lung cancer to …
39 There are four methods currently available to treat patients with metastatic lung cancer to …
The benefits of rehabilitation for palliative care patients
E Barawid, N Covarrubias… - … Hospice and Palliative …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
… to provide the best care for patients with life-threatening illnesses. Like palliative medicine,
rehabilitation also uses an interdisciplinary approach to treating patients with chronic illnesses…
rehabilitation also uses an interdisciplinary approach to treating patients with chronic illnesses…
Palliative care
A Davies, F Bailey - Handbook of Metastatic Breast Cancer, 2006 - taylorfrancis.com
… Studies suggest that the WHO guidelines are generally effective, with 69–100% of patients
achieving ‘adequate analgesia’.A number of strategies are available to treat patients with …
achieving ‘adequate analgesia’.A number of strategies are available to treat patients with …
What is palliative care?
JA Billings - Journal of palliative medicine, 1998 - liebertpub.com
… treat a patient's severe pain or dysbad palliative care, but do not constitute es- pnea may
cause drowsiness and reduced insential parts of a definition. They seem to im- take of food and …
cause drowsiness and reduced insential parts of a definition. They seem to im- take of food and …
Palliative care and rehabilitation
J Santiago‐Palma, R Payne - … International Journal of the …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
… palliative care for patients who have progressive disease is anachronistic. New models of
patient care… , integrate disease-specific treatments with palliative care and rehabilitation. These …
patient care… , integrate disease-specific treatments with palliative care and rehabilitation. These …
Defining the palliative care patient: a systematic review
W Van Mechelen, B Aertgeerts… - Palliative …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… patients’ readiness to accept palliative care and a vision of palliative care shared by the
patient … Whereas two decades ago palliative care was mainly confined to the treatment of pain …
patient … Whereas two decades ago palliative care was mainly confined to the treatment of pain …
Palliative care: views of patients and their families.
I Higginson, A Wade, M McCarthy - British Medical Journal, 1990 - bmj.com
… Introduction Care of terminally ill patients and their families places many difficult demands
on the health services.' Palliative treatment of such patients has grown rapidly in the past …
on the health services.' Palliative treatment of such patients has grown rapidly in the past …
Early palliative care in cancer treatment: rationale, evidence and clinical implications
L Howie, J Peppercorn - Therapeutic Advances in Medical …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
… -directed therapy, and care delivery that matches the patients’ preferences. This review …
initiation of palliative care in patients with advanced cancer and ongoing barriers to care in …
initiation of palliative care in patients with advanced cancer and ongoing barriers to care in …
Access to palliative care among patients treated at a comprehensive cancer center
… patients with access to palliative care according to tumor type. We found significant differences
in palliative care … We found significant differences in palliative care access by tumor type (…
in palliative care … We found significant differences in palliative care access by tumor type (…