Background: Interdisciplinary team involvement is commonplace in many palliative care
settings across the world. Teamwork is perceived by many experts as an indispensable …

BACKGROUND Patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have a
poor quality of life and limited life expectancy. This study examined whether these patients …

Waiting for any news can be a difficult experience, and waiting for health-related news
presents additional challenges due to the potentially life-changing implications of diagnostic …

Conclusions Parents place the highest priorities on quality of life, likelihood of improvement,
and perception of their child's pain when considering withdrawal of life support. Parents …

Social workers from clinical, academic, and research settings met in 2002 for a national
Social Work Leadership Summit on Palliative and End-of-Life Care. Participants placed the …

Objective To explore the experiences and perceptions of general practitioners and
community nurses in discussing preferences for place of death with terminally ill patients …

Objective To examine how much oncologists tell patients about the survival benefit of
palliative chemotherapy during consultations at which decisions about treatment are made …

Handling collusion among patients and family members is one of the biggest challenges that
palliative care professionals face across cultures. Communication with patients and relatives …

Context: Review of published research indicates the need to better incorporate patient and
caregiver perceptions when providing end-of-life (EOL) care. Although considerable …

BACKGROUND: Few data have been published on the association of variables of the
metabolic syndrome and infection with Helicobacter pylori, a putative risk factor for …