The importance of a continuum of rehabilitation from diagnosis of advanced cancer to palliative care.

Purpose: Identifying the evidence found in the international scientific literature, referring to the concept of rehabilitation in the setting of oncologic palliative care.

Methods: Integrative literature review based on articles published in indexed journals on the electronic databases: LILACS, CINAHL and PubMed/MEDLINE, WEB OF SCIENCE, OTSEEKER and PEDRO, following the PRISMA criteria. The quantitative articles were evaluated using the McMaster form for quantitative studies and the qualitative studies were assessed by the Critical Appraisal Skills Program.

Assessment of total pain in people in oncologic palliative care: integrative literature review.

The promotion of comfort and quality of life of people with cancer in palliative care requires flawless evaluation and management of pain, understood in its multidimensionality and integrality. The objective of this study was to present an overview of the scientific production referring to evaluation of the pain and total pain of patients with advanced cancer in palliative care. The study involved an integrative literature review, searching the databases and using the descriptors , and To select the studies, the authors used the reference manager Mendeley and the application Rayyan™, as well as blind and independent peer review.

The Palliative Outcome Scale (POS) applied to clinical practice and research: an integrative review.

Objective: to identify and evaluate the evidence found in the international scientific literature on the application of the Palliative Outcome Scale (POS) in clinical practice and research in Palliative Care (PC).

Method: integrative literature review, through the search of publications in journals indexed in PubMed / MEDLINE, LILACS, SciELO and CINAHL databases, between the years 1999 and 2014.

Results: the final sample consisted of 11 articles.

Evaluation of quality of life in a palliative care context: an integrative literature review.

The use of scales that have been validated and standardized for different cultures is very useful for identifying demands in the field of Palliative Care and implementing the most appropriate care. This integrative literature review focuses on instruments assessing the Quality of Life of patients under Palliative Care through a journal search in electronic databases. The study consisted of 49 papers identified in Medline/PubMed, of which 18 met the inclusion criteria previously defined.