Oct 21, 2022

End-of-life (EOL) care is a significant consumer of healthcare resources, particularly for elderly cancer patients. The EOL treatment of these individuals is made more difficult by their diagnosis of ...

Oct 21, 2022

Individual perceptions of the desired judgments and behaviors that direct our attitudes and behavior are known as personal values. Advance care planning (ACP) currently places a strong focus on taking...

Oct 10, 2022

Understanding and expressing choices for future medical treatment is the process of advance care planning. For a study, researchers sought to investigate the consistency of end-of-life treatment prefe...

Oct 10, 2022

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may be used to treat COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory failure who are resistant to traditional therapy. Requiring ECMO was linked to increased morta...

Oct 07, 2022

Noninvasive brain stimulations (NIBS) is being used more frequently on patients with neuropathic pain (NP), but there was debate over how well they work to treat the condition. For a study, researcher...

Oct 06, 2022

It was hypothesized that inflammation affects the tumor response to radiotherapy (RT). To comprehend the varying RT efficacy in patients with painful bone metastases, clinical investigations to examin...

Oct 06, 2022

It has been demonstrated that pediatric palliative home-based care enhances the quality of life, symptom management, and care coordination. Despite these achievements, hospitalization rates in the hom...

Oct 06, 2022

Healthcare systems should consider patient experiences while establishing care procedures to raise the standard of end-of-life care. Families and caregivers of recently deceased in-patients may be in ...

Oct 06, 2022

Variability in care intensity have been brought to light by the COVID-19 epidemic. For a study, researchers sought to describe the level of care given to COVID-19 individuals who were hospitalized. Ex...

Oct 06, 2022

The use of palliative care (PC) in developing environments is hampered by a lack of understanding of the practice. In a multi-site quality improvement initiative in India, it was important to recogniz...

Oct 06, 2022

There was little proof that severe COVID results in symptom management. Therefore, for a study, researchers sought to identify changes in symptoms, relationships to therapies, and survival rates among...

Oct 06, 2022

To supplement a clinician's prediction of survival (CPS), several prognostic models, including the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS), Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI), and Palliative Prognostic Scor...

Oct 06, 2022

Patients with advanced heart failure (HF) usually exhibit severe psychological symptoms that frequently match diagnostic standards for psychological disorders such as anxiety, sadness, and drug use di...

Oct 03, 2022

Patients with serious illnesses who have prioritized healthcare objectives and whose doctors are aware of them are probably in a better position to get the care that is goal-concordant. For a study, r...

Sep 06, 2022

Family members of dead intensive care unit (ICU) patients may have psychological effects due to their loved one's passing. For a study, researchers sought to provide an overview of various bereavement...

Sep 06, 2022

For COVID-19 patients, there are guidelines to help manage their symptoms as they approach death. However, little attention has been paid to the actual symptom patterns, level of adherence to drug usa...

Sep 06, 2022

In hospital settings, continuous opioid infusions are frequently used to treat end-of-life (EOL) symptoms. Nevertheless, prescription procedures differ, and even contemporary research offers contradic...

Aug 22, 2022

Children with life-threatening illnesses need the best pediatric palliative care (PPC) possible. Therefore, understanding the quality improvement (QI) efforts of PPC physicians and programs is crucial...

Aug 22, 2022

More than 74% of juvenile fatalities occur in intensive care units (ICU), 40% of which happen after the withdrawal of life-supporting therapies (WOLST). Yet, no requirements analysis identified provid...

Aug 22, 2022

For persons with dementia (PWD), who may be particularly vulnerable to getting care at the end of life that is not consistent with their wishes or that causes a greater strain on caregivers, less was ...