Pain and symptom management in palliative care and at end of life

DJ Wilkie, MO Ezenwa - Nursing outlook, 2012 - Elsevier
The purpose of this review is to provide a literature update of the research published since
2004 on pain and symptom management in palliative care and at end of life. Findings …

Site of death, place of care, and health care transitions among US Medicare beneficiaries, 2000-2015

JM Teno, P Gozalo, AN Trivedi, J Bunker, J Lima… - Jama, 2018 - jamanetwork.com
Importance End-of-life care costs are high and decedents often experience poor quality of
care. Numerous factors influence changes in site of death, health care transitions, and …

Patient navigation: a culturally competent strategy to address disparities in palliative care

SM Fischer, A Sauaia, JS Kutner - Journal of palliative medicine, 2007 - liebertpub.com
THERE IS GROWING acceptance and increasing ap-plication of patient navigation in the
care of underserved populations. Navigators (also called Promotoras, Comadres …

Shifting place of death among children with complex chronic conditions in the United States, 1989-2003

C Feudtner, JA Feinstein, M Satchell, H Zhao, TI Kang - Jama, 2007 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe place where children with complex chronic conditions are dying may be shifting
toward residential homes due to the evolving epidemiology of life-threatening childhood …

Hospice use and outcomes in nursing home residents with advanced dementia

DK Kiely, JL Givens, ML Shaffer… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
OBJECTIVES: To identify characteristics of nursing home (NH) residents with advanced
dementia and their healthcare proxies (HCPs) associated with hospice referral and to …

An examination of Latino-advanced cancer patients' and their informal caregivers' preferences for communication about advance care planning: A qualitative study

MJ Shen, C Gonzalez, B Leach… - … & supportive care, 2020 - cambridge.org
ObjectivesLatino-advanced cancer patients engage in advance care planning (ACP) at
lower rates than non-Latino patients. The goal of the present study was to understand …

Racial and ethnic differences in hospice use among patients with heart failure

JL Givens, J Tjia, C Zhou, E Emanuel… - Archives of Internal …, 2010 - jamanetwork.com
Background Heart failure is the leading noncancer diagnosis for patients in hospice care
and the leading cause of hospitalization among Medicare beneficiaries. Racial and ethnic …

Perceptions of the pediatric hospice experience among English-and Spanish-speaking families

R Thienprayoon, E Marks, M Funes… - Journal of palliative …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Objective: Many children who die are eligible for hospice enrollment but little is known about
parental perceptions of the hospice experience, the benefits, and disappointments. The …

Willingness of older KoreanAmerican adults to use hospice

Y Jang, DA Chiriboga, JY Allen, J Kwak… - Journal of the …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Responding to an urgent need for more research on endoflife concerns of racial and
ethnic minorities, the present study explored predictors of willingness of older Korean …

Racial differences in hospice use and in-hospital death among Medicare and Medicaid dual-eligible nursing home residents

J Kwak, WE Haley, DA Chiriboga - The Gerontologist, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Purpose: We investigated the role of race in predicting the likelihood of using hospice and
dying in a hosptial among dual-eligible (Medicare and Medicaid) nursing home residents …