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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...
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BACKGROUND A multidisciplinary European Association of Palliative Care Taskforce was established to scope the extent of and learn what facilitates and hinders the development of palliative care in the community across Europe. AIM To document the barriers and facilitators for palliative care in the community and to produce a resource toolkit that palliative care specialists, primary care healt...
متن کامل[Palliative and support care at home in primary care].
OBJECTIVES To estimate the proportion of people requiring palliative and support care at home in primary care and to describe their characteristics. METHODS A descriptive study was carried out by five Spanish sentinel networks between October 2007 and March 2008 in 282,216 people attended by 218 general practitioners and nurses. Patients receiving comprehensive, active and continued care at h...
متن کاملPalliative care symposium: promoting joint palliative care.
Dr Lesley Colvin (Senior Lecturer in Anaesthesia, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh) discussed the challenges of pain management in patients with a history of addiction. Similar to other chronic conditions, substance misuse often follows a relapsing course. Pain is a frequently associated comorbidity. Mortality rates are high but can be reduced by successful methadone maintenance programmes, ...
متن کاملNurses’ Knowledge of Palliative Care and Its Related Factors
Introduction: Palliative care is the science of promoting the patient’s quality of life. It can improve the quality of life of a patient, which is effective not only in patient’s late-life but also useful in dealing with a chronic illness over many years. In this regard, nurses, as the largest providers of health care services, play an important role in palliative care. Objective: This study a...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0885-3924
DOI: 10.1016/s0885-3924(01)00380-3