Publications by authors named "Meg Brassil"
Article Synopsis
- The study looked at how different people, like patients and nurses, felt about a special treatment to prevent delirium (a confused state) in cancer patients at the end of their lives in Australia.
- Researchers talked to 39 people involved in a pilot trial to understand what worked well and what didn't, using ideas from psychology to analyze their answers.
- The findings showed that the treatment fit well with the caring nature of palliative care, but also highlighted some challenges in how the treatment was carried out and understood by everyone involved.
Delirium is a common debilitating complication of advanced cancer. To determine if a multicomponent nonpharmacological delirium prevention intervention was feasible for adult patients with advanced cancer, before a phase III (efficacy) trial. Phase II (feasibility) cluster randomized controlled trial.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Delirium is a significant medical complication for hospitalised patients. Up to one-third of delirium episodes are preventable in older inpatients through non-pharmacological strategies that support essential human needs, such as physical and cognitive activity, sleep, hydration, vision and hearing. We hypothesised that a multicomponent intervention similarly may decrease delirium incidence, and/or its duration and severity, in inpatients with advanced cancer.
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