Palliative care most effective when invisible
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The invisible homebound: setting quality-of-care standards for home-based primary and palliative care.
Approximately four million adults in the United States are homebound, and many of them cannot access office-based primary care. Home-based medical care can improve outcomes and reduce health care costs, but this care operates in a quality measurement desert, having been largely left out of the national conversation on care quality. To address this shortcoming, two of the authors created the Nat...
متن کاملPalliative Care in Neonatal Intensive Care Units: Challenges and Solutions
Palliative care is a series of actions aiming to offer support to parents and their infants in order to improve their quality of life. Despite optimal outcomes, the provision of palliative care for infants and achieving these outcomes may be hardly feasible. The present study aimed to investigate the barriers to palliative care and gain insight into the solutions. Accordingly, the obstacles wer...
متن کاملFamily meetings in palliative care: are they effective?
Despite the promotion of family meetings as an essential tool for information sharing and planning in palliative care, minimal evidence exists to show their effectiveness. We sought to rectify this gap in evidence-based practice by evaluating recently developed clinical guidelines for facilitating family meetings. Palliative care nurses were trained to conduct family meetings using the guidelin...
متن کاملElements of effective palliative care models: a rapid review
BACKGROUND Population ageing, changes to the profiles of life-limiting illnesses and evolving societal attitudes prompt a critical evaluation of models of palliative care. We set out to identify evidence-based models of palliative care to inform policy reform in Australia. METHOD A rapid review of electronic databases and the grey literature was undertaken over an eight week period in April-J...
متن کاملThe need for an effective palliative care strategy in Pakistan.
The development of palliative care around the world, or lack thereof, is an important public health problem. We are pleased that the Journal of Public Health Policy has provided a public health lens to the need for palliative care in developing countries in a Special Section of the Journal (January 2007, Number 1, Volume 28). The issue presented a range of topics from more generic issues in pal...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Medical Association Journal
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0820-3946,1488-2329
DOI: 10.1503/cmaj.1150118