Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of the management of people with palliative care needs in the emergency department of a UK hospitalBMC Palliative Care - Tập 22 - Trang 1-13 - 2023
Jane Sausman, Azra Arif, Annie Young, John MacArtney, Cara Bailey, Jaimini Rajani, Rebecca Burt
The Emergency Department (ED) is not always the optimal place for people with palliative care needs but is the most common route for treatment when urgent care is sought. The aim of this study,’’REasons for PalLIative Care Admissions (REPLICA)’ was to explore the perspectives of ED healthcare professionals of hospital admission or discharge via ED for palliative care patients. This is a sequential...... hiện toàn bộ
Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care: a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods studyBMC Palliative Care - Tập 21 - Trang 1-15 - 2022
Katharine Weetman, Jeremy Dale, Sarah J. Mitchell, Claire Ferguson, Anne M. Finucane, Peter Buckle, Elizabeth Arnold, Gemma Clarke, Despoina-Elvira Karakitsiou, Tracey McConnell, Nikhil Sanyal, Anna Schuberth, Georgia Tindle, Rachel Perry, Bhajneek Grewal, Katarzyna A. Patynowska, John I. MacArtney
The provision of palliative care is increasing, with many people dying in community-based settings. It is essential that communication is effective if and when patients transition from hospice to community palliative care. Past research has indicated that communication issues are prevalent during hospital discharges, but little is known about hospice discharges. An explanatory sequential mixed met...... hiện toàn bộ
Action research study on advance care planning for residents and their families in the long-term care facilityBMC Palliative Care - Tập 18 - Trang 1-14 - 2019
Hsin-Tzu Sophie Lee, Ting-Ru Chen, Chia-Ling Yang, Tai-Yuan Chiu, Wen-Yu Hu
Research in Taiwan has indicated that advance care planning is rarely undertaken in long-term care facilities. The purpose of this study was to develop an advance care planning interview guideline and care model to facilitate the process of advance care planning for residents and their families in long-term care facilities. This study follows an action research design. Cycles of planning, action, ...... hiện toàn bộ
The end of life experiences of people living with socio-economic deprivation in the developed world: an integrative reviewBMC Palliative Care - Tập 21 - Trang 1-25 - 2022
Sarah P Bowers, Ming Chin, Maire O’Riordan, Emma Carduff
Those experiencing socioeconomic deprivation have poorer quality of health throughout their life course which can result in poorer quality of death – with decreased access to palliative care services, greater use of acute care, and reduced access to preferred place of care compared with patients from less deprived populations. To summarise the current global evidence from developed countries on en...... hiện toàn bộ
When dying does not go well: a qualitative studyBMC Palliative Care - - 2024
Christof Breitsameter
Several studies deal with the question of what constitutes a "satisfactory death". A smaller number of studies deal with unsatisfactory dying processes. And only a few shed light on unsatisfactory deaths that take place in hospices and palliative care units, which see themselves as places conducive to a "good" death. What also remains largely undiscussed are the ethical aspects that accompany the ...... hiện toàn bộ
Palliative care in the Eastern Mediterranean: comparative analysis using specific indicatorsBMC Palliative Care - Tập 21 - Trang 1-11 - 2022
Miguel Antonio Sánchez-Cárdenas, Nasim Pourghazian, Eduardo Garralda, Danny van Steijn, Slim Slama, Edgar Benítez, Marie-Charlotte Bouësseau, Carlos Centeno
Monitoring the development of palliative care (PC) illustrates the capacity of health systems to respond to the needs of people experiencing serious health-related suffering. To analyse comparatively the situation of PC in the countries of the Easter Mediterranean region using context-specific indicators. An online questionnaire with 15 context-specific PC indicators investigating service provisio...... hiện toàn bộ
Frames and counter-frames giving meaning to palliative care and euthanasia in the NetherlandsBMC Palliative Care - Tập 20 - Trang 1-11 - 2021
Baldwin Van Gorp, Gert Olthuis, Anneleen Vandekeybus, Jelle van Gurp
Based on the case of palliative care and euthanasia in the Netherlands, this paper presents an analysis of frames and counter-frames used in the ongoing public debate about these two intertwined topics. Each (counter)frame presents a cultural theme that can act as a prism to give meaning to palliative care and/or euthanasia. Each frame comprehends a different problem definition, consequences and p...... hiện toàn bộ