Issue 1/2011
Content (21 Articles)
"Card sorting": a tool for research in ethics on treatment decision-making at the end of life in Alzheimer patients with a life threatening complication
Lionel Pazart, Chrystelle Vidal, Didier Faivre Chalon, Sophie Gauthier, Florent Schepens, Elodie Cretin, Jean-Louis Beal, Pierre Pfitzenmeyer, Régis Aubry
The perspectives of clinical staff and bereaved informal care-givers on the use of continuous sedation until death for cancer patients: The study protocol of the UNBIASED study
Jane Seymour, Judith Rietjens, Jayne Brown, Agnes van der Heide, Sigrid Sterckx, Luc Deliens
The experience of palliative patients and their families of a family meeting utilised as an instrument for spiritual and psychosocial care: A qualitative study
Heather M Tan, Anne Wilson, Ian Olver, Christopher Barton
Palliative care making a difference in rural Uganda, Kenya and Malawi: three rapid evaluation field studies
Liz Grant, Judith Brown, Mhoira Leng, Nadia Bettega, Scott A Murray
Identifying bereaved subjects at risk of complicated grief: Predictive value of questionnaire items in a cohort study
Mai-Britt Guldin, Maja O'Connor, Ineta Sokolowski, Anders B Jensen, Peter Vedsted
Expert opinion on detecting and treating depression in palliative care: A Delphi study
Lauren Rayner, Annabel Price, Matthew Hotopf, Irene J Higginson
Intervention for depression among palliative care patients and their families: A study protocol for evaluation of a training program for professional care staff
David J Hallford, Marita P McCabe, David Mellor, Tanya E Davison, Denisa L Goldhammer, Kuruvilla George, Shane Storer
Hospital based palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa; a six month review from Malawi
Julia B Tapsfield, M Jane Bates
Study protocol: optimization of complex palliative care at home via telemedicine. A cluster randomized controlled trial
Froukje Duursma, Henk J Schers, Kris CP Vissers, Jeroen Hasselaar
The effect on survival of continuing chemotherapy to near death
Akiko M Saito, Mary Beth Landrum, Bridget A Neville, John Z Ayanian, Craig C Earle
The lived experience of breathlessness and its implications for care: a qualitative comparison in cancer, COPD, heart failure and MND
Marjolein H Gysels, Irene J Higginson
Piloting the role of a pharmacist in a community palliative care multidisciplinary team: an Australian experience
Safeera Y Hussainy, Margaret Box, Sandy Scholes
Age, gender, will, and use of home-visit nursing care are critical factors in home care for malignant diseases; a retrospective study involving 346 patients in Japan
Yuko Kodama, Tomoko Matsumura, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Morihito Takita, Shohei Kawagoe, Yukihiro Kimura, Satoshi Hirahara, Hiroshi Suzuki, Hideki Ohta, Shigeru Onozawa, Tadashi Wada, Yukiyasu Nakamura, Kazushi Nakano, Masahiro Kami, Koichiro Yuji
Is it recorded in the notes? Documentation of end-of-life care and preferred place to die discussions in the final weeks of life
Karen Cox, Nima Moghaddam, Kathryn Almack, Kristian Pollock, Jane Seymour
Knowledge and attitude of final - year medical students in Germany towards palliative care - an interinstitutional questionnaire-based study
Martin Weber, Sven Schmiedel, Friedemann Nauck, Bernd Alt-Epping
Talking about living and dying with the oldest old: public involvement in a study on end of life care in care homes
Claire Goodman, Elspeth Mathie, Marion Cowe, Alex Mendoza, Daphne Westwood, Diane Munday, Patricia M Wilson, Clare Crang, Katherine Froggatt, Steve Iliffe, Jill Manthorpe, Heather Gage, Stephen Barclay
Cancer Carepartners: Improving patients' symptom management by engaging informal caregivers
Maria J Silveira, Charles W Given, Kemp B Cease, Alla Sikorskii, Barbara Given, Laurel L Northouse, John D Piette
Mapping hospice patients' perception and verbal communication of end-of-life needs: an exploratory mixed methods inquiry
Bruce L Arnold
Palliative inpatients in general hospitals: a one day observational study in Belgium
Marianne S Desmedt, Yolande L de la Kethulle, Myriam I Deveugele, Emmanuel A Keirse, Dominique J Paulus, Johan J Menten, Steven R Simoens, Paul J vanden Berghe, Claire M Beguin
Predictors of dying at home for patients receiving nursing services in Japan: A retrospective study comparing cancer and non-cancer deaths
Sumie Ikezaki, Naoki Ikegami
End of life care in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review of the qualitative literature
Marjolein Gysels, Christopher Pell, Lianne Straus, Robert Pool