Terminally Ill Patients
The Proper Focus for FDA Regulations: Why the Fundamental Right to Self Preservation Should Allow Terminally Ill Patients with No Treatment Options to Attempt to Save Their Lives
... The Proper Focus for FDA Regulations Why the Fundamental Right to Self Preservation Should Allow Terminally Ill Patients with No Treatment Options to Attempt to Save Their Lives SMU Law Review Volume[.] ...
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MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSION IN TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS – A CRITICAL REVIEW
... of patients at this stage of disease are not referred for psychosocial or psychiatric care and most of those referred do not receive adequate treatment for depression ...in terminally ill ...
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Role of Green Exercises to Promote Well-Being in Terminally Ill Patients
... patient, terminally ill or ...etc. Terminally ill patients go through stress and other psychological implications especially those patients who are at final stage of the ...
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Addressing the needs of terminally-ill patients in Bosnia-Herzegovina: patients’ perceptions and expectations
... elderly, patients with incurable conditions and terminally-ill patients who stay at home with little support or wait to be admitted in a ...
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Nonspecific changes in clinical laboratory indicators in unselected terminally ill patients and a model to predict survival time based on a prospective observational study
... Modern medicine, particularly medical research, re- quires a reliance on objective laboratory testing rather than experience and judgment alone for the diagnosis of disease. Laboratory test indicators have sensitive, ...
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GPs' views on transfer of information about terminally ill patients to the out-of-hours co-operative
... their terminally ill patients was reported by 82% of the GPs and 5% did not do so for any of their ...and terminally ill status of the ...
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Characteristics of Nursing Care for Terminally Ill Patients in Hospice/Palliative Care Unit
... for terminally ill patients [8], families and health care providers [9] [10] have suggested the importance of care to support the process of the patient’s “good ...of terminally ...
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Disclosure Preferences Towards Terminally Ill Patients in Singapore: Are We Ready to Confront the “Elephant in the Room”?
... cantonese. Patients and most of the family members and palliative care professional participants were recruited through two hospices in ...the patients and family members group and 40 for the palliative ...
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Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya
... of terminally ill patients with AD and to identify the factors that influence the completion of AD amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in ...
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Cash Me Outside, Howbow Dah?–An Alternative to Wasteful Medical Spending In Terminally Ill Patients
... which patients determine treatment plans—rather than viewing additional medical intervention merely as an option among several ...allows patients to reap a longer lifespan, living longer is not necessarily ...
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Recruiting Terminally Ill Patients into Non-Therapeutic Oncology Studies: views of Health Professionals
... seriously ill patients to participate, then medical science could not advance, at least in those fields where the only possible avenue for re- search (at least at this time) requires the use of diseased ...
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Reasons for transferral to emergency departments of terminally ill patients - a French descriptive and retrospective study
... and patients ’ outcomes after the medical ...whether patients called the hospital-at-home service before going to the emergency ...of patients from home to emergency ...of patients returned ...
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Death by Any Other Name: The Federal Government's Inconsistent Treatment of Drugs Used in Lethal Injections and Physician-Assisted Suicide
... Critics may argue that the practice of PAS will lead to involuntary euthanasia, jeopardizing the lives of patients who do not want to hasten their deaths. This is a point that can be legitimately argued, but there ...
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What a wish to die can mean: reasons, meanings and functions of wishes to die, reported from 30 qualitative case studies of terminally ill cancer patients in palliative care
... why terminally ill patients express a wish to die (WTD), there is broad consensus regarding the need for more detailed knowledge about the factors that might influence the occurrence or the intensity ...
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Caring for the carer in the era of HIV diagnosis
... The care of terminally ill patients can be physically, emotionally as well as psychologically exhausting. In the era where everyone is busy with his or her hectic daily schedule, caring for someone ...
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The assessment of spiritual well-being in cancer patients with advanced disease: which are its meaningful dimensions?
... for patients suffering from life-threatening ...for terminally ill patients, their spiritual needs are rarely addressed in clinical ...in patients with advanced ...cancer ...
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The Last Best Place to Die: Physician-Assisted Suicide and Montana's Constitutional Right to Personal Autonomy Privacy
... 1 4 9 Therefore, if the right to phy- sician-assisted suicide for terminally ill patients was deemed fundamental, and is consistent with Montana's right to personal a[r] ...
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Exploring health care providers’ perceptions about home-based palliative care in terminally ill cancer patients
... with patients…” ...for terminally ill patients ...the patients should die, where they should die ... about which patients should be resuscitated and which ones shouldn’t ...some ...
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An analysis of common ethical justifications for compassionate use programs for experimental drugs
... to patients with no other means to access the ...beneficence. Terminally ill patients, one could argue, stand to benefit greatly and risk rela- tively little (as they are already facing ...
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The supportive relationship between palliative patients and family caregivers
... dying patients and their family caregivers has been reported. Terminally-ill patients have expressed concerns about the burden they impose on family caregivers whilst family caregivers have ...
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