Symptom and problem burden, performance status and palliative care phases in specialist palliative care: cross-sectional analysis of care episodes ...

Objectives Despite rapid expansion of treatments for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and the importance of symptom management for enhancing quality of life, few studies have ...

Results Our search yielded 171 results, of which seven met the inclusion criteria. Four were retrospective chart reviews, one was a retrospective cohort study, one was a case series and one was a ...

Background Despite legal advancements like gay marriage, LGBTQ+ individuals often face significant barriers in accessing equitable end-of-life care, exacerbated by healthcare professionals’ limited ...

Introduction Individuals with chronic physical illness are at increased risk of negative psychological sequelae. Immersive virtual reality (VR) is an emerging treatment that might reduce these ...

Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and function between patients ...

2 Spiritual Care St Joseph's Healthcare, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada Objective The Word Cloud is a frequent wish in the 3 Wishes Project developed to nurture peace and ease the grieving process for ...

4 Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 5 Programme for Health Services & Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Objective In Asian cultures, the belief ...

Objectives Assisted dying has been legally available in Oregon in the USA for 25 years, since when official reports have been published each year detailing the number of people who have used this ...

Objective To describe the strategies used by a collection of healthcare systems to apply different methods of identifying seriously ill patients for a targeted palliative care intervention to improve ...

Importance Limb spasticity is a common issue among stroke patients. Transcutaneous electrical acupoint stimulation (TEAS) is recommended as an alternative therapy for managing upper limb spasticity ...