Background: Ethical problems routinely arise in the healthcare profession and more so in
hospitals providing cancer diagnosis and care. Literature study indicates that almost all …

Context Nearly 70% of do-not-resuscitate (DNR) directives for chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease (COPD) patients are established during their terminal hospitalization. Whether …

Objective To discover the experiences of end-of-life patients attended by the emergency
services, through the discourse of the family caregivers who accompanied the family …

Supportive care tends to be conceptualized from the diagnosis of individuals with advanced
incurable cancer through to death and the mourning period Active treatment in the early …

Objective To evaluate the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the care delivered to
hospitalized cancer patients in end-of-life. Methods A retrospective analysis of data of …

Objetivo Conocer las vivencias de los pacientes que se encontraban al final de la vida y
fueron atendidos por los servicios de urgencias, mediante los discursos de sus cuidadores …

Objectives Financial pressures and competing demands for limited resources highlight the
importance of defining the unmet need for specialty inpatient palliative care (PC) …

Background Bereavement is a physiological process of great importance in palliative care;
grief-processing disorders can be diagnosed after at least 6 months after death and have …

Introduction Supportive care development has created new needs in patients' care pathway.
In order to anticipate, evaluate, and take care of patients' needs, a supportive care dedicated …

There is variability in the frequency of autopsies and place of death among countries around
the world. Purpose. To conduct a comparative analysis of the place of death and the …