BACKGROUND Children dying of a life threatening disease suffer a great deal at the end of life. Symptom control is often unsatisfactory, partly because many caregivers are simply not familiar with paediatric palliative care. To ensure that a child with a life-threatening condition receives high quality palliative care, clinical practice guidelines are needed. The aim of this study is to improve...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore oncology nurses' perceptions about palliative care. RESEARCH APPROACH Descriptive study with narrative data analysis. SETTING Oncology units in three midwestern hospitals. PARTICIPANTS 33 actively practicing oncology nurses. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Oncology nurses participated in focus groups that elicited concrete experiences and reflections about palliative...

BACKGROUND According to EU policy, anyone in need of palliative care should be able to have access to it. It is therefore important to investigate which palliative care topics are subject to legislation and regulations in Europe and how these are implemented in (national) health care plans. This paper aims to deliver a structured overview of the legislation, existing regulations and the differe...

Palliative care of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is often undertaken by CF teams rather than palliative care teams because of the specialist nature of the disease and the potential role of lung transplantation. We developed an integrated model of provision of palliative care whereby most care is delivered by the CF team using palliative guidelines and pathways, with additional support avai...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The current review discusses the integration of guideline and evidence-based palliative care into heart failure end-of-life (EOL) care. RECENT FINDINGS North American and European heart failure societies recommend the integration of palliative care into heart failure programs. Advance care planning, shared decision-making, routine measurement of symptoms and quality of life ...

BACKGROUND In 2007, a first survey on undergraduate palliative care teaching in Switzerland has revealed major heterogeneity of palliative care content, allocation of hours and distribution throughout the 6 year curriculum in Swiss medical faculties. This second survey in 2012/13 has been initiated as part of the current Swiss national strategy in palliative care (2010 - 2015) to serve as a lon...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how palliative care is experienced by patients with head and neck cancer and their relatives. The aim of this retrospective study was to analyze this care from the point of view of surviving relatives. METHODS Fifty-five surviving relatives of patients with head and neck cancer treated at our department were enrolled in this study. Forty-five returned a comple...

conclusions these results show that maturity and birth weight are related to a decrease in the risk of developing a candidiasis infection. objectives the purpose of this study was to determine the rate, risk factors, and sources of colonization in low birth weight (lbw) and very low birth weight (vlbw) infants in an nicu. patients and methods all cases were classified in to 1 of 2 groups: lbw a...

BACKGROUND People with dementia may benefit from palliative care which specifically addresses the needs of patients and families affected by this life-limiting disease. On behalf of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), we recently performed a Delphi study to define domains for palliative care in dementia and to provide recommendations for optimal care. An international panel of ...

objectives the current study aimed to determine the incidence of neonatal infection (nicus) in south sinai neonatal intensive care units, egypt. methods the study included 1023 neonates admitted to neonatal intensive care units in the south sinai state hospitals from january 2010 to september 2014 and scanned for demographic data and the potential risk factors for neonatal septicemia. results t...