Palliative care development and services were reviewed in the region represented by the six
members of the Middle East Cancer Consortium: Cyprus, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, the …

Terminal dönem kanser hastalarının ölüme huzur ve saygınlık içinde ulaşması sürecinde
hasta ve hasta yakınlarının yapacağı ölüm yeri tercihi, ölüm zamanındaki yaşam kalitesini …

Background: In Turkey, which is a secular, democratic nation with a majority Muslim
population, euthanasia is illegal and regarded as murder. Nurses and students can be faced …

Introduction Turkey is constitutionally secular with a Muslim majority. There is no legal basis
for limiting life-support at the end-of-life (EOL) in Turkey. We aimed to investigate the …

Background The demographic transition in Turkey is shifting the burden of diseases towards
non-communicable diseases including cancer. Palliative care (PC) as a component of …

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the attitudes of nurses in Turkey to
death, and the factors affecting this. Methods: The research was conducted with 390 nurses …

Patients with cancer are still suffering a lot, especially those in developing countries. The
concept of palliative care has improved and disseminated slowly in Turkey since the early …

With a rate of 13 percent, cancer is the second most frequent cause of mortality in Turkey,
after cardiovascular disease. The incidence of cancer is 180 per 100,000, which, in a total …

Özet Yoğun bakım ünitelerimizde ekip ve ekipman sorunlarının sıkça yaşanması nedeni ile
hekimler sağlık kaynaklarının dağıtımıyla ilgili birçok etik problemle karşılaşmaktadır. Bir …

There has been a growing awareness for the need to develop a palliative care service in
Turkey. But a significant proportion of the Turkey population still does not have access to …