نتایج جستجو برای: terminal patient
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The terminal care of patients with cancer has come to involve important medical and social problems. We evaluated our terminal care in 52 patients with head and neck cancer. The results were that pain couldn't be controlled in 40% of these patients. In the last two weeks before death, only 28.8% of the patients could take food orally and only 23.1% could speak. We also assessed dyspnea, mental ...
Differences in prescribing between 1981 and 1986 were examined for 100 terminal care patients admitted to a city hospice in each year. Prescribing before and after the patients were admitted to the hospice was also compared for the two years. Between 1981 and 1986 there was a large increase in the number of patients receiving morphine sulphate tablets and a reduction in the numbers receiving Br...
BACKGROUND Amyand's hernia, which is the presence of a normal or pathological appendix as a part of an inguinal hernia, is a rare clinical entity. We are reporting a very rare case of left-sided incarcerated Amyand's hernia with cecum and terminal ileum involvement. CASE PRESENTATION A 4-year-old male child with left inguinal swelling of 2-year duration presented to Goba Referral Hospital. Tw...
BACKGROUND Most people prefer to receive end-of-life care in familiar surroundings rather than in hospital. This study examines variation in place of death for people dying from Parkinson's disease (PD) across 11 European and non-European countries. METHODS Using death certificate data of 2008 for Belgium, France, Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic, New Zealand, USA, Canada, Mexico, South Korea a...
Survival AfterMultiple Hospitalizations for Infections andDehydration in NursingHome ResidentsWith Advanced Cognitive Impairment Multiple hospitalizations for complications from a terminal illness may be burdensome for elderly patients and reflect poor quality care. Infections and eating problems are 2 such complications characterizing the final stage of dementia.1 In a previous study,1 burdens...
BACKGROUND Methods to estimate the direct medical costs of cancer care have evolved into several commonly used methods. OBJECTIVES We describe the different estimation techniques briefly to contrast these approaches and provide a framework for other articles in this monograph. MEASURES AND RESULTS One can estimate costs for all individuals with a specific cancer in a fixed calendar period (...
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