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. …

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 …

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…

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Access to palliative care among patients treated at a comprehensive cancer center

D Hui, SH Kim, JH Kwon, KC Tanco, T Zhang… - The …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
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 (…