[Medical care of terminally ill patients].

Palliative care ethics: non-provision of artificial nutrition and hydration to terminally ill sedated patients.

Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya

BACKGROUND An advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates a person's health care preference while they are competent to make decisions for themselves and is used to guide decisions on life-sustaining treatment in the event that they become incapacitated. AD can take the form of a living will, a limitation of care document, a do-not-resuscitate order, or an app...

Managing end-of-life care: comparing the experiences of terminally Ill patients in managed care and fee for service.

There have been no published empirical studies comparing the experiences of terminally ill patients in managed care organizations (MCOs) and those in fee for service (FFS). This investigation represents the first empirical study to systematically compare substantive outcomes between populations of terminally ill patients enrolled in MCO and FFS healthcare delivery systems. The investigators int...

Needs of Terminally Ill Patients and Their Families: an Experience with Fifty Three Patients Attending a Newly Organized Palliative Care Service in Bangladesh

Objective. To identify the needed care of the terminally ill patients and their families in Bangladesh Design: Retrospective, descriptive cross-sectional study Setting: Out Patient Consultation, referred admitted patients and home care visits by the same palliative care team of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) Participants: 53 terminally ill cancer patients registered with th...

Care of the Terminally Ill Patient in India: Comments on the Proposed Legislation

The Government of India recently published a draft version of the Medical Treatment of Terminally-Ill Patients Bill for comments and feedback from the public. The bill, when enacted, will provide some clarity to end-of-life care in terminally ill patients in India and is intended to protect both physicians and patients frompotential liability. Such a law is relevant for the global oncology comm...

The provision of end-of-life care by medical-surgical nurses working in acute care: a literature review.

OBJECTIVE Caring for terminally ill patients is complex, stressful, and at times distressing for nurses. Acute care hospitals continue to be the predominant place of death for terminally ill patients in most Western countries. The objective of the present literature review was to explore and gain an in-depth understanding of the experience of providing end-of-life (EOL) care by medical-surgical...