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Physician board certification in hospice and palliative medicine

The American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (ABHPM) was formed in 1995 to establish and implement standards for certification of physicians practicing hospice and palliative medicine and, ultimately, accreditation of physician training in…

Adult education program in palliative care for nursing facility physicians: design and pilot test

Nursing facilities (NF) are important sites for the care of dying patients. Curricula likely to improve end-of-life care are needed for NF physicians. To this end, a model medical school palliative care curriculum was modified for experienced NF…

Your child is dead

OBJECTIVE--To determine parent's views on how death of their children should have been handled. DESIGN--Retrospective questionnaire survey of parents who had experienced death of their child. SETTING--Charitable organisation of bereaved parents.…

Continuity of care: influence of general practitioners' knowledge about their patients on use of resources in consultations.

OBJECTIVE--To examine the relation between general practitioners' knowledge about their patients and the use of resources in consultations. DESIGN--A cross sectional evaluation of consultations. SETTING AND SUBJECTS--A representative sample of 133…

Why should doctors read medical books?

1997

Tags: 1997, Annals Of Internal Medicine, Backlog, Cassell EJ, Humans, Journal Article, Medicine, Physicians, Textbooks

Symptoms and Suffering at the End of Life in Children with Cancer

Cancer is the leading cause of nonaccidental death in childhood.1 There has, however, been little evaluation of the overall experience at the end of life of children who are dying of cancer or of their symptoms other than pain.2,3 A number of studies…

Tags: 2000, Anorexia/etiology/therapy, Backlog, Boston, Child, Children's Hospital (Boston), Clodronate, Constipation/etiology/therapy, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (Boston), Death and Euthanasia, Diarrhea/etiology/therapy, Dyspnea/etiology/therapy, Ellenbogen JM, Emanuel EJ, Empirical Approach, Fatigue/etiology/therapy, Grier Holcombe E, Health Care Surveys, home care services, Humans, Journal Article, Klar Neil, Levin SB, Logistic Models, Longitudinal Studies, Neoplasms/complications/therapy, New England Journal Of Medicine, Non-U.S. Gov't, Oncology at EOL, P.H.S., Pain/etiology/therapy, Palliative Care/standards/statistics & Numerical Data, Parents, Physicians, Professional Patient Relationship, Psychological, Quality Of Health Care, Quality Of Life, Questionnaires, Research Support, Salem-Schatz S, Stress, Terminal Care, U.S. Gov't, Weeks Jane C, Withholding Treatment, Wolfe J

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…

Parental Involvement In Neonatal Critical Care Decision-making.

The article analyses the decision-making process between doctors and parents of babies in neonatal intensive care. In particular, it focuses on cases in which the decision concerns the redirection of care from full intensive care to palliative care…

Moral Distress In The Everyday Life Of An Intensivist

A regular work day for intensivists can be emotionally draining, as we witness suffering, fear, pain,
tragedies, unfair treatment of children, death…. We may experience the mental stress of dealing with
nursing shortages, increasing family demands,…

Tags: 2016, Critical Care Medicine, Daniel Garros, Decision Making, Decision-making, End-of-life Care, Ethics, Frontiers in Pediatrics, Judgment (ethics), Medical, Moral Distress, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Pediatric Research, Physicians, Practice, Research, Rj1-57, September 2016 List

Early Introduction Of Palliative Care And Advanced Care Planning For Children With Complex Chronic Medical Conditions: A Pilot Study.

BACKGROUND:
Children with complex chronic medical conditions benefit from early introduction of palliative care services and advanced care planning for symptom management and to support quality of life and medical decision-making. This study…

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