The European Portuguese Posthumous Dignity Therapy Schedule of Questions: Initial development and validation.

Objective: Dignity therapy (DT) is a brief psychotherapeutic intervention with beneficial effects in the end-of-life experience. Since it provides a continuing bond between the bereaved and their loved ones, we speculated that it could be offered as a novel bereavement intervention following the patient's death. We aimed to develop, translate, and validate the Posthumous DT Schedule of Questions (-DT-SQ), for administration with bereaved relatives or friends.

Facial edema as an adverse drug reaction to olanzapine in a patient with cancer receiving palliative care.

Objective: Atypical neuroleptics such as olanzapine are indicated for the treatment of various psychiatric disorders and have been used in the palliative care setting also for several clinical indications. Peripheral and facial edema are a rare side effect of the treatment with olanzapine. We report a case of an advanced cancer patient cared receiving palliative care who developed severe facial edema after initiating a low dose of olanzapine in monotherapy.

Portuguese Patient Dignity Question: A cross-sectional study of palliative patients cared for in primary care.

Introduction: The Patient Dignity Question (PDQ) is a clinical tool developed with the aim of reinforcing the sense of personhood and dignity, enabling health care providers (HCPs) to see patients as people and not solely based on their illness.

Objective: To study the acceptability and feasibility of the Portuguese version of the PDQ (PDQ-PT) in a sample of palliative care patients cared for in primary care (PC).

Method: A cross-sectional study using 20 palliative patients cared for in a PC unit.