quality of end-of-life care
Quality end-of-life care: A global perspective
... Palliative Care Program of Latin America, physicians, health care workers and government officials met to iden- tify problems and strategies for the delivery of palliative care ...pastoral ...
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Quality of dying and quality of end of life care of nursing home residents in six countries:an epidemiological study
... 16 Quality of end-of-life care reflects elements of the setting in which dying takes place whereas the quality of dying refers to symptom burden and other resident outcomes that can be ...
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Quality Standards for End of Life Care in Hospitals : Making end of life care central to hospital care
... advance care planning and preferred place of care/death, organ donation, post-mortems, funeral arrangements, wills, and legal and financial ...sensitive end-of-life care, privacy, ...
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Compassionate collaborative care: an integrative review of quality indicators in end-of-life care
... high quality healthcare. When combined in a compassionate collaborative care (CCC) practice framework, they are reported to improve health, strengthen care provision, and control health ...and ...
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Improving quality in hospital end-of-life care: honest communication, compassion and empathy
... deliver end-of-life ...that end-of-life care can be urgent care, where occur- rences of suffering or uncontrolled symptoms means that escalation to other teams in the hospital ...
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Improving the Quality of End-of-Life Care in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: Parents' Priorities and Recommendations
... and care coordination are central to any discussion of parent-identified priorities and are in- terrelated from a clinical ...child’s end-of-life ...
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Is palliative care support associated with better quality end-of-life care indicators for patients with advanced cancer? A retrospective cohort study
... palliative care referral date recorded on the PPM system was identified as a unique palliative care ...palliative care provision was esti- mated using general practitioner (GP) communications within ...
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Quality of transition to end-of-life care for cancer patients in the intensive care unit
... advanced care planning and discussions about EOLC with patients and their families remains infrequent [34– ...palliative care team forms an integral part of the service this issue remains ...liative ...
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A practical guide to implementing high quality end of life care for homeless people in our communities
... Joanne is 30 years old. She began drinking heavily at age 14 and for many years has been using substances such as crack cocaine and heroin. She was diagnosed with advanced liver disease 12 months ago. In a recent ...
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Volunteer Prisoners Provide Hospice to Dying Inmates
... The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) has developed "quality guidelines for hospice and end-of-life care in correctional settings", to e[r] ...
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End of life care in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: in search of a good death
... poor quality of life suffered by patient with ...of life, and in nearly half of these the breathlessness is unrelieved by treatment (Edmonds et al ...
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Feedback on end-of-life care in dementia: the study protocol of the FOLlow-up project
... for care quality ...the quality of care they provided and the possibility to improve ...the care staff, as well as grass- root support from the field and incorporation in the ...
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Is it recorded in the notes? Documentation of end-of-life care and preferred place to die discussions in the final weeks of life
... for care at the end of life. These include the National End of Life Care Pro- gramme launched in 2004 and the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) guidance on ...
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Advance directive: does the GP know and address what the patient wants? Advance directive in primary care
... A well-drafted advance directive has a prominent role in ACP and can provide an improvement in the quality of life. Although the public need is high, the number of for- mally drafted advance directives ...
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Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know
... implementing care for your patients? Although the nurse will not typically be the clinician who provides prognostic information to the patient answering the question “How long do I have?”, you should be prepared ...
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How can end of life care excellence be normalized in hospitals? Lessons from a qualitative framework study
... for end-of-life care was embedded in a large Australian teaching ...palliative care (medical 2, nursing 1) staff ...different care approach (cognitive ...patient care, but there ...
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Evaluating complex interventions in End of Life Care: the MORECare Statement on good practice generated by a synthesis of transparent expert consultations and systematic reviews
... unacceptable because of bias [27]. However, such a guide- line fails to distinguish the reasons for attrition. Data which are missed because patients have died is very differ- ent to that missed because a patient has ...
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Taking care of end-of-life settings
... palliative care seems to be perceived as something that creates barriers in the planning of palliative ...palliative care professionals also stated that they are not autonomous and recognized, because in ...
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Attitudes of Doctors in a Teaching Hospital in South India towards End Of Life care in people with Terminal Cancer: A Cross Sectional study
... End-of-life care has evolved as an important concept in developed and industrialized ...on end of life care ...improving end of life care is gradually ...
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Influence of health interventions on quality of life in seriously ill children at the end of life: a systematic review protocol
... (1) quality of life is defined as all measures or proxies of quality of life, care, or dying at the end of life, containing six domains (physical health, psychological ...
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