Identifying Persons with Diabetes Who Could Benefit from a Palliative Approach to Care

A practical tool to identify patients who may benefit from a palliative approach: the CARING criteria.

Palliative care is often offered only late in the course of disease after curative measures have been exhausted. To provide timelier symptom management, advance care planning, and spiritual support, we propose a simple set of prognostic criteria that identifies persons near the end of life. In this retrospective cohort study of five prognostic indicators, the CARING criteria (Cancer, Admissions...

Identifying patients who may benefit from treatment

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Palliative care: meaningful benefit in oncology care.

Palliative care addresses the symptoms of cancer throughout the course of the disease. Moreover, rather than just improving end-of-life care, palliative care also improves survival. It has long been established that a patient’s survival is dependent on the palliation of symptoms caused by cancer therapy, such as neutropenia and chemotherapy-induced nausea. However, the relief of other symptoms,...

A Consensus-Based Approach To Providing Palliative Care to Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity

Making palliative care decisions for a patient who lacks decision-making capacity presents several challenges. Other people, such as family and caregivers, must choose for the patient. The goals and values of these decision makers may conflict with those of each other and with those of the patient, who now lacks the capacity to participate in the decision. This paper presents a case study of a ...