Prolonged intravenous line access in a terminally ill patient, consequences and suggestions

Rights of the terminally ill patient.

Depression, anxiety, and delirium in the terminally ill patient.

Fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva: Case report of a Terminally-ill patient.

Mujer de 29 años, con antecedentes personales de diabetes tipo 1 A y amenorrea primaria secundaria a agenesia cervical. A los 10 años de edad consultó por aparición de tumoración en la región cervical, sin traumatismo previo; se realizó estudio radiológico y biopsia ósea que resultó compatible con miositis osificante. A lo largo de los años fueron apareciendo osificaciones ectópicas de gran tam...

The right to information for the terminally ill patient.

OBJECTIVES To analyse the attitudes of medical personnel towards terminally ill patients and their right to be fully informed. DESIGN Self-administered questionnaire composed of 56 closed questions. SETTING Three general hospitals and eleven health centres in Granada (Spain). The sample comprised 168 doctors and 207 nurses. RESULTS A high percentage of medical personnel (24.1%) do not thi...

Organizational culture in a terminally ill hospital.

This study analyzed an organizational culture in a community hospital in Texas to measure organizational culture change and its impact on Patient Satisfaction (PS). The study employed primary and secondary data, combining quantitative and qualitative methods for a case study. Participant observation was used and archival data were collected to provide a better understanding of the organizationa...