Purpose: to describe the speech therapy aspects of patients treated by the palliative care
team in a hospital. Methods: an observational and cross-sectional study, performed from …

The aim of this study was to integrative review of publications concerning the role of speech
and language therapists in regards to communication strategies in palliative care, as well as …

Introduction: Palliative care is described as an approach that aims to promote quality of life,
when facing life-threatening diseases, in order to prevent and relieve suffering. The speech …

Purpose: To identify speech-language pathologists' perception on their performance in
palliative care at a public hospital in Santa Catarina State, Brazil. Methods: It is a descriptive …

Objective: to describe the profile of patients treated by Speech-Language therapists in a
Critical Patient Unit. Methods: an ex post facto, observational and descriptive study was …

Objetivo Caracterizar as alterações relacionadas à deglutição e as principais intervenções e
condutas fonoaudiológicas em pacientes em cuidados paliativos, com disfagia orofaríngea …

Introduction: palliative care is provided by a multidisciplinary team that consists of Nursing,
Psychology, Physiotherapy, Social work, and Medicine. Although this type of therapy is …

Introduction: Many of the symptoms presented by palliative patients culminate in dysphagia
and communication disorders. Purpose: To analyze the opinion of palliative care patients …

Introduction: Palliative care aims at keeping the quality of life and comfort of patients
confronting life-threatening diseases. Patients in palliative care usually develop dysphagia …

ABSTRACT Patients in Palliative Care (PC) represent a public whose demand is great for
speech therapy, and because there is no standardized instrument for assessing the …