Marie Curie (March 2012) promotes senior HCAs roles within palliative care services, providing a robust service dealing with challenges of crisis and avoiding hospital admission for patients with life ...

Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review ...

Objectives To examine whether use of a hand-held fan (‘fan’) improves breathlessness and increases physical activity. Methods A secondary exploratory analysis using pooled data from the fan arms of ...

Objectives Advance care planning (ACP) can be a way to meet patients’ end-of-life preferences and enhance awareness of end-of-life care. Thereby it may affect actual place of death (APOD) and decrease ...

Objectives Terminally ill patients may require sedation to relieve refractory suffering. The prevalence and modalities of this practice in palliative care services remain unclear. This study estimated ...

Objectives Depression is associated with unhealthy autonomic regulation. However, whether patients with breast cancer (BC) with different degrees of depression can be identified from linear and ...

Objectives To evaluate factors associated with high-dose opioid use in patients with advanced cancer and examine the effect of high-dose opioid use on patients’ survival. Methods This study ...

Background Often, family members and friends gather around a dying hospice patient to say goodbye in what is known as a death vigil. The purpose of this study is to explore the stories and experiences ...

Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of oral (PO) and subcutaneous (SC) lacosamide for refractory symptoms in the palliative setting. Methods We conducted a retrospective chart review of ...

As we approach 2034, we anticipate significant advancements in digital technologies and their impact across various domains, including palliative and end-of-life care and perhaps higher education more ...

1 PhD candidate of nursing, Department of Pediatric Nursing, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran (the Islamic Republic of) Background Cystic fibrosis (CF) in children requires complex ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the relationship between nurses’ spiritual well-being and their competence in providing spiritual care, and to identify influencing factors among Turkish ...