[PDF] Top 20 Palliative care in South Asia: a systematic review of the evidence for care models, interventions, and outcomes

... of evidence in terms of palliative care outcomes, and the lack of data from beyond India, highlight the urgent need for greater research investment and activity to guide the development of ... See full document

... The QualSyst tool was an appropriate tool for asses- sing study quality; however it did lack the ability to iden- tify specific biases in the papers. This may have resulted in papers having inflated quality grades. On ... See full document

... existing evidence was organised to address: (1) opportunities to alleviate physical and emotional symptoms, improve communication, and provide sup- port for patients and families; (2) models and specific ... See full document

... of interventions in agriculture on nutrition outcomes is of particular relevance in South Asia where agriculture-related activities are a major source of livelihoods for large sections of ... See full document

... of interventions in agriculture on nutrition outcomes is of particular relevance in South Asia where agriculture-related activities are a major source of livelihoods for large sections of ... See full document

... Studies with lower graded evidence also showed favourable trends in outcomes of interventions for carers. While these designs were limited by less rigorous approaches, such studies will potentially ... See full document

... evaluated interventions aimed at improving end-of-life care outcomes for people with dementia living at home; three involving specialist palliative care services and five non-specialist ... See full document

... cation interventions among the included studies may have been an important ...home care programs [34] may improve the success of women’s groups on maternal health care ...community ... See full document

... tive care in a care home setting. A review of the effectiveness of specialised palliative care which concluded that “the evidence for a benefit from specialised palliative ... See full document

... physiotherapist interventions in the treatment and management of palliative ...care. Palliative care is regarded as a holistic practice which involves caring of the people living with ... See full document

... of care, parental involvement), symptom management, reduce long- term parental grief Parents highly rated communication ...the palliative phase were fatigue (75%), pain (74%), anxiety being alone (52%), and ... See full document

... advance care planning and palliative care interventions on ICU admission and ICU LOS for patients with life-limiting ...the interventions themselves are heterogeneous, assessment of the ... See full document

... the review definition of advanced dementia was reanalysed (Hanson ...some evidence that a decision aid helps to reduce decisional conflict in surrogates and leads to increased discussions between surrogates ... See full document

... require palliative care, unsurprisingly we identified that they were indeed present, despite under-reporting of their characteristics and ...their outcomes in this review was that the studies ... See full document

... differentiate models of antenatal ...these interventions, something we believe will be of interest to service designers and those planning further antenatal care model ...different care ... See full document

... differentiate models of antenatal ...these interventions, something we believe will be of interest to service designers and those planning further antenatal care model ...different care ... See full document

... limited evidence related to this ...included systematic re- views highlighted several criticalities related to meth- odological aspects having an impact on the quality of the primary studies included in ... See full document

... this review has some limitations. Ini- tially, the review was not prospectively ...of outcomes and therapies and the difference in methods among the studies would have affected this meta analysis; ... See full document

... the evidence and inform assessment of the suitability of the preference-based instruments for measuring care-related outcomes in palliative ... See full document

... the interventions we investigated might be deemed worthy of further investigation based on their positive outcomes but none could be recommended for routine ...this evidence motivates further ... See full document