Current status and physician's attitude toward advance care planning in hospice palliative care units in Japan

Palliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions

Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...

Physicians as patients in advance care planning.

Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Patients' perceptions of care quality within and across settings are important for the further development of palliative care. The aim was to investigate patients' perceptions of palliative care quality within settings, including perceptions of care received and their subjective importance, and contrast palliative care quality across settings. METHOD A cross-sectional study includi...

Palliative Medicine and Hospice Care

1Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA 2Associate Professor of Gerontology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, Winston-Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC 27110, USA *Corresponding author Cecile N. Yancu, PhD Associate Professor of Sociology Department of Behavioral Sciences Winston-Salem State Uni...

Update in Hospice and Palliative Care.

The objective of this update, presented at the 2017 Annual Assembly of the American Association of Palliative and Hospice Medicine (AAHPM) and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA), is to identify, summarize, and critique a sampling of research from the prior year that has the potential for marked impact on hospice and palliative clinical practice. Eight reports of original resea...