Palliative care in the emergency department: A systematic literature qualitative review and thematic synthesis

Understanding the role of the volunteer in specialist palliative care: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

BACKGROUND Volunteers make a major contribution to palliative patient care, and qualitative studies have been undertaken to explore their involvement. With the aim of making connections between existing studies to derive enhanced meanings, we undertook a systematic review of these qualitative studies including synthesising the findings. We sought to uncover how the role of volunteers with direc...

Palliative Care in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Systematic Review of the Qualitative Literature

Palliative care in the emergency department.

The Emergency Department (ED) is the place where people most frequently seek urgent care. For patients living with chronic disease or malignancy who may be in a crisis, this visit may be pivotal in determining the patients' trajectory. There is a large movement in education of emergency medicine physicians, hospitalists, and intensivists from acute aggressive interventions to patient-goal asses...

Key performance indicators of emergency department: A literature review

Abstract Aim. The purpose of this study was to investigate the key performance indicators in the emergency department. Background. Health care organizations are confronted with various phenomena such as the rapid promotion of technology, changing demographic factors and changing lifestyles. On the other hand, the health care system has become one of the largest and most expensive industries in ...

The effect of palliative care on the quality of life of cancer patients: A systematic review

Back grand & Aim: Recently, palliative care has become more important in relation to the quality of life of cancer patients, and there are studies that determine the optimal quality of life for the patient and his family. The aim of this study is to systematically review the Effect of palliative care on the quality of life of cancer patients. Methods:In this systematic review, we used keywords ...