Crawford, G B Lakhani, A Palmer, L Sebalj, M Rolan, P
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Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer
Breakthrough cancer pain (BtCP) is a prevalent health issue which is difficult to manage. A plethora of quantitative research in this area exists. There is a paucity of research on the perspectives of health professionals and patients surrounding domains impacting effective treatment, including definitions of BtCP, treatment, and education opportun...
Dijxhoorn, Anne-Floor Raijmakers, Natasja van der Linden, Yvette Leget, Carlo Brom, Linda
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Palliative & supportive care
Many aspects of palliative care, such as managing (complicated) symptoms, conducting goals-of-care conversations, and repeated exposure to loss, can be stressful to clinicians. Previous research on the emotional impact of providing palliative care was mainly done in specialist settings. However, the majority of palliative care is provided by clinic...
Jorgensen, Tyler
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Journal of pain and symptom management
Kamp, Marcel A Golla, Heidrun Dinc, Nazife Goldbrunner, Ronald Senft, Christian Hellmich, Martin Voltz, Raymond
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World neurosurgery
Delgado-Corcoran, Claudia Wawrzynski, Sarah E Flaherty, Brian Kirkland, Brandon Bodily, Stephanie Moore, Dominic Cook, Lawrence J Olson, Lenora M
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Cardiology in the young
Compare rates, clinical characteristics, and outcomes of paediatric palliative care consultation in children supported on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation admitted to a single-centre 16-bed cardiac or a 28-bed paediatric ICU. Retrospective review of clinical characteristics and outcomes of children (aged 0-21 years) supported on extracorporeal m...
Coventry, Alysia Gerdtz, Marie McInnes, Elizabeth Dickson, Jessica Hudson, Peter
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Intensive & critical care nursing
Families who perceive themselves as prepared for an impending death experience reduced psychological burden during bereavement. Understanding which interventions promote death preparedness in families during end-of-life care in intensive care will inform future intervention development and may help limit the burden of psychological symptoms associa...
Rodríguez-Mayoral, Oscar Galindo-Vázquez, Oscar Espinoza-Bello, Marcos Allende-Pérez, Silvia Pascual-Ramos, Virginia Monforte-Royo, Cristina
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Palliative & supportive care
The Schedule of Attitudes Toward Hastened Death (SAHD) has emerged as a valid and reliable tool to assess the wish to hasten death (WTHD) among patients diagnosed with advanced cancer; however, the instrument has never been culturally adapted and validated for patients in Mexico. This study sought to validate and abbreviate the SAHD tool for use am...
Uchida Miwa, Michelle Paiva, Carlos Eduardo Ferreira, Ana Julia Sucupira Julião, Miguel Chochinov, Harvey Max Paiva, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro
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Palliative & supportive care
Dignity therapy (DT) was developed to help patients at their end of life to reframe and give meaning to their illness process. The DT question protocol focuses on personhood and important aspects of the individual's life. This study aimed to translate and culturally adapt the Dignity Therapy Question Protocol (DTQP) to Brazilian Portuguese. This wa...
Sadowska, Anna Krzykwa, Izabella Czarkowska-Pączek, Bożena
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Journal of cancer education : the official journal of the American Association for Cancer Education
During nursing education, few practical hours are devoted to comprehensively preparing students to care for a dying patient. Contact with a dying patient is a key element of the job of every working nurse in the profession. Therefore, it is necessary to properly prepare nurses to care for a dying patient. This study aimed to assess the professional...
Hill, Kylie N Olsavsky, Anna Barrera, Maru Gilmer, Mary Jo Fairclough, Diane L Akard, Terrah Foster Compas, Bruce E Vannatta, Kathryn Gerhardt, Cynthia A
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Palliative & supportive care
We identified types of interventions used by bereaved family members and examined associations with demographic and medical factors. Furthermore, we examined associations between distress and intervention use among bereaved families. Bereaved families (n = 85) were recruited from three children's hospitals 3-12 months after their child died of canc...
