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Hospital care of patients with dementia.

2000

Tags: 2000, Acute Disease, Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Backlog, Dementia/co [Complications], Dementia/mo [Mortality], DNAR, Double Effect Principle, Hip Fractures/co [Complications], Hip Fractures/th [Therapy], Hospitalization, Humans, JAMA, Journal Article, Palliative Care, Patient Care, Pneumonia/co [Complications], Pneumonia/th [Therapy], Prognosis, Riesenberg D

The effects of the Palliative Medicine Consultation on the DNR status of African Americans in a safety-net hospital.

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effectiveness of palliative medicine consultation on completion of advance directives/do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders by racial/ethnic minorities., METHOD: A sample of 1999 seriously ill African American and Hispanic…

End-of-life decision-making in Canada: the report by the Royal Society of Canada expert panel on end-of-life decision-making.

This report on end-of-life decision-making in Canada was produced by an international expert panel and commissioned by the Royal Society of Canada. It consists of five chapters. Chapter 1 reviews what is known about end-of-life care and opinions…

A pilot study of palliative medicine fellows' hospice home visits.

This was a prospective descriptive study of hospice physician home visits (HVs) conducted by Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellows. Our objectives were 1) to improve our knowledge of hospice care at home by describing physician HVs 2) to identify…

Physician-older patient communication at the end of life.

Communication with dying patients and their families requires special skills to assist them in this extremely stressful period. This article begins with a case that illustrates many of the challenges of communicating with the dying. It then reviews…

Experience in the use of the palliative care outcome scale.

GOALS OF WORK: The objective of the study is to assess the Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) as a potential audit tool within a specialist cancer centre. It also aims to answer the following questions: does the tool identify problem areas and…

Palliative medicine consultation for preparedness planning in patients receiving left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the benefit of proactive palliative medicine consultation for delineation of goals of care and quality-of-life preferences before implantation of left ventricular assist devices as destination therapy (DT)., PATIENTS AND METHODS:…

Impact of a palliative care initiative on end-of-life care in the general wards: A before-and-after study._

BACKGROUND: Data on deaths in the general wards of our hospital in 2007 revealed infrequent discussions on end-of-life care and excessive burdensome interventions., AIM: A physician order form to withhold inappropriate life-sustaining interventions…

Tags: 2014, Advance Care Planning/st [Standards], Advance Care Planning/standards, Aged, Asian, Backlog, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Chronic Disease/ep [Epidemiology], Chronic Disease/epidemiology, Chronic Disease/th [Therapy], Chronic Disease/therapy, Chua G, Clinical Audit, Comorbidity, DNAR, DNAR Outcomes, Do-not-resuscitate Orders, Female, Forms and Records Control, general wards, Hospital Mortality/td [Trends], Hospital Mortality/trends, Humans, Journal Article, Life Support Care/methods, Life Support Care/mt [Methods], Life Support Care/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data], Life Support Care/statistics & numerical data, Lim Tow K, Logistic Models, Male, Palliative Care, Palliative Medicine, Patient Admission/statistics & numerical data, Patient Admission/td [Trends], Patient Admission/trends, Phua J, Program Evaluation, Resuscitation Orders, Retrospective Studies, Seah A, Singapore/ep [Epidemiology], Singapore/epidemiology, Social Class, Tan A, Withholding Treatment/sn [statistics & Numerical Data], Withholding Treatment/statistics & Numerical Data

Cardiopulmonary resuscitation in patients with cancer.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in the United States, with most of these deaths taking place in the hospital setting. Discussions on end-of-life care and on cardiopulmonary resuscitation in particular are an important component in the…

Tags: 2007, Backlog, Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, Decision Making, DNAR, Humans, Journal Article, Marik PE, Neoplasms/th [therapy], Palliative Care, Quality Of Life, Resuscitation Orders, The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, Varon J

Communication and advanced care planning in palliative and end-of-life care.

Communication about and planning for the end of life has evolved with medical and technological changes. This article presents a focused literature review of Advance Directives (ADs), Advanced Care Planning (ACP), and communication in palliative and…

Tags: 2012, Advance Care Planning, Advance Directives, Backlog, Clinical Nursing Research, Communication, DNAR, Humans, Journal Article, Meeker MA, Nursing Outlook, Palliative Care, Terminal Care, United States, Waldrop DP

Impact of writing "comfort measures only" orders in a community teaching hospital.

OBJECTIVES: We compared end-of-life care for patients with and without orders for "comfort measures only" (CMO) and evaluated whether standards for palliative medicine were met., DESIGN: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 40 patients, 20 with…

Advance directives in a pediatric emergency department.

Parents of children with terminal illnesses are not always present when a life-threatening event occurs. For many of these children, an advance directive specifying alternate code orders has been written by the parent or legal guardian (hereafter the…

Easing of suffering in children with cancer at the end of life: is care changing?.

PURPOSE: In the past decade studies have documented substantial suffering among children dying of cancer, prompting national attention on the quality of end-of-life care and the development of a palliative care service in our institutions. We sought…

Ethnicity, race, and advance directives in an inpatient palliative care consultation service.

OBJECTIVE: Although race and ethnic background are known to be important factors in the completion of advance directives, there is a dearth of literature specifically investigating the effect of race and ethnicity on advance directive completion rate…

Tags: 2013, 80 And Over, Adult, Advance Directives/eh [Ethnology], African Americans/statistics & numerical data, Aged, Asian Continental Ancestry Group/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data], Attitude to Death/eh [Ethnology], Backlog, Cooper LB, Cross-cultural Comparison, Decision Making, DNAR, European Continental Ancestry Group/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data], Female, Hispanic Americans/sn [Statistics & Numerical Data], Humans, Journal Article, Lesser ML, Liberman T, Male, Middle Aged, Mir Tanveer P, New York/ep [Epidemiology], Nouryan CN, Palliative & Supportive Care, Palliative Care/og [Organization & Administration], Pekmezaris R, Program Evaluation, Referral and Consultation/og [Organization & Administration], Resuscitation Orders, Sison CP, Spirituality, Terminal Care/og [organization & Administration], Wolf-Klein GP, Zaide GB

The use of pediatric advance directives: a tool for palliative care physicians.

Although laws such as the Patient Self-Determination Act encourage individuals to address their end-of-life treatment preferences using advance directives, the wishes of children have traditionally been ignored or, perhaps even worse, overruled.…

Tags: 2008, Advance Care Planning/es [Ethics], Advance Care Planning/og [Organization & Administration], Backlog, Child, Child Advocacy, Child Advocacy/es [Ethics], Child Advocacy/lj [Legislation & Jurisprudence], Child Advocacy/px [Psychology], Decision Making, DNAR, Humans, Journal Article, Minors/lj [legislation & Jurisprudence], Minors/px [Psychology], Palliative Care/es [Ethics], Palliative Care/og [Organization & Administration], Palliative Care/px [psychology], Parental Consent/es [Ethics], Parental Consent/lj [Legislation & Jurisprudence], Parental Consent/px [Psychology], Patient Participation/lj [Legislation & Jurisprudence], Patient Participation/px [Psychology], Pediatrics/es [Ethics], Pediatrics/og [Organization & Administration], Personal Autonomy, Right to Die/es [Ethics], Right to Die/lj [Legislation & Jurisprudence], The American Journal of Hospice & Palliative Care, United States, Zinner SE

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