Found 12 datasets matching "palliative-care".
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Background Prognosis estimates are used to access services, but are often inaccurate. This study aimed to determine the accuracy of giving a prognosis range. ...
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Background Palliative medicine is assuming an increasingly important role in patient care. The Education for Physicians in End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project is an ambitious program to...
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Background Quality of life is an important concept which is subjective and personal; what is an acceptable quality of life to one may be 'worse than death' to another. The objective of...
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Objectives To determine the factors associated with a home death among older adults who received palliative care nursing home services in the home. Methods ...
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Background Intensivists must provide enough analgesia and sedation to ensure dying patients receive good palliative care. However, if it is perceived that too much is given, they risk...
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Home Health Agencies (HHA) provide at home skilled nursing, personal care and therapeutic services. Hospices provide palliative care and alleviate the physical, emotional, social and spiritual...
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Home Health Agencies (HHA) provide at home skilled nursing, personal care and therapeutic services. Hospices provide palliative care and alleviate the physical, emotional, social and spiritual...
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The resources listed here are organizations that provide in-home healthcare for homebound older adults and individuals with advanced illness in need of hospice services or home-based palliative...
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In 1982, the author attended a lecture by Professor Joseph Civetta dealing with the concept that, at times, the goal of care should be comfort rather than cure, and that inappropriate care...
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Background Quality end-of-life care has emerged as an important concept in industrialized countries. Discussion We argue quality end-of-life care...
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This dataset shows characteristics of hospice providers such as address, phone number, ownership data and more.
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Managing death in the intensive care unit: bringing back the humanity
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