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Quality time for the dying.
first met Janet and Robert when one of our Mercy Hospice nurses said she was concerned that Robert was thinking of killing himself. Robert, who was terminally ill, had just started using the hospice program. When I arrived at their home for a special meeting, I realized that Robert was very serious about suicide. He was suffering a great deal of pain and did not want to be a burden to his wife....
متن کاملEvaluating the quality of dying and death.
We propose a model for evaluating the quality of dying and death based on concepts elicited from literature review, qualitative interviews with persons with and without chronic and terminal conditions, and consideration of desirable measurement properties. We define quality of dying and death as the degree to which a person's preferences for dying and the moment of death agree with observations...
متن کاملQuality of dying in the ICU: ratings by family members.
STUDY OBJECTIVES To explore the quality of the dying experience and associations to higher quality ratings for people who died in an ICU. DESIGN Retrospective study using medical record review and surveys of family members with the Quality of Dying and Death (QODD) instrument. SETTING Four ICUs affiliated with a university and a Veterans Affairs Medical Center. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-four fa...
متن کامل[Quality of care for the dying in a hospital].
Aim. To analyse the accounts of the relatives of patients who died during one year in a hospital in Navarre, within a study of the quality of care for the dying. Method. A telephone interview was conducted with the person dearest to the patients who had died in the course of one year in the hospital. The TOOLKIT survey, previously validated, was used to this end. In all cases a maximum of three...
متن کاملMeasuring and improving the quality of dying and death.
Improving end-of-life experience is a major challenge to successful aging. Deaths that are reasonably free of discomfort, in accordance with patients' wishes, and within acceptable professional and ethical standards are high-quality deaths. The authors developed a 31-item measure of the quality of dying and death and applied it in a community sample and a sample of hospice enrollees. Scores on ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Psychosomatic Obstetrics & Gynecology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0167-482X,1743-8942
DOI: 10.1080/01674820701243887