Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
While medical end-of-life planning has been well characterized, less is known about non-medical planning to prepare for the end of life. To determine the prevalence of engagement in non-medical end-of-life (EOL) planning and its relationship to medical EOL planning. Three hundred and four persons age 65 and older recruited from physician offices an...
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
Family caregivers' distinct depressive-symptom trajectories are understudied and have been examined independently during end-of-life (EOL) caregiving or bereavement, making it difficult to validate two competing hypotheses (wear-and-tear vs. relief) of caregiving effects on bereavement. Existing studies may also miss short-term heterogeneity in dep...
Published in The American journal of hospice & palliative care
Caring for loved ones with palliative needs can be very stressful for carers'. To address this growing issue, an online Home Caregiver Support Program course was created to provide information to non-professional home caregivers about end-of-life care. To measure non-professional caregivers' perceived level of competence in addressing physical, psy...
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
Published in Journal of pain and symptom management
Minority patients receive more aggressive and potentially suboptimal care at the end of life (EOL). We investigated preferences about pharmacologic interventions at the EOL and their potential variation by sociodemographic factors among recently diagnosed cancer patients. A population-based cross-sectional survey of cancer patients identified throu...
Published in Journal of palliative medicine
Background: There have been few studies evaluating the costs of palliative care (PC) in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially for patients with cancer. Objectives: The objective of this study was to identify the sociodemographic and clinical variables that could explain the cost per day of PC for cancer in Brazil. Methods: This was a...
Ensuring high quality end of life (EOL) care is necessary for people with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), given its high incidence, mortality and symptom burden. Aggressive EOL care can adversely affect the quality of life of NSCLC patients without providing meaningful oncologic benefit. Objectives: (1) To describe EOL health services ...
Background：Patients with advanced kidney disease have a symptomatic and psychological burden which warrant renal supportive care or palliative care. However, the impact of do-not-resuscitate consent type (signed by patients or surrogates) on end-of-life treatments in these patients remains unclear. Objective. We aim to identify influential factors ...
Published in Open Forum Infectious Diseases
In a retrospective cohort, patients who indicated a preference for limited antimicrobials on a common order form for end-of-life treatments received fewer antimicrobial days of therapy in the 30 before death compared to patients who never completed the form.
Published in Journal of palliative medicine
Background: Little is known about end-of-life care experiences of Asian Americans and gaps in end-of-life care quality between Asians and non-Hispanic whites. Objective: Compare the perceptions of next-of-kin of Asian and non-Hispanic white decedents on end-of-life care quality. Design: Mortality follow-back survey. Setting/Subjects: Population-bas...
