Respecting Choices and Related Models of Advance Care Planning: A Systematic Review of Published Evidence.

All individuals should receive care consistent with their expressed preferences during serious and chronic illnesses. Respecting Choices (RC) is a well-known model of advance care planning intended to assist individuals consider, choose, and communicate these preferences to health-care providers. In this systematic review, we evaluated the published literature on the outcomes of the RC and derivative models utilizing criteria developed by the Cochrane Collaborative.

CE: Early Intervention in Patients with Poststroke Depression.

: Nearly one-third of stroke survivors experience depression. Poststroke depression is associated with longer hospital stays, poor physical and cognitive recovery, poor quality of life, high caregiver distress, increased risk of recurrent stroke, and higher rates of morbidity and mortality. Poststroke depression, however, often goes unrecognized and untreated because the physical and cognitive repercussions of stroke make it difficult to identify.

Clinician-Targeted Mobile Apps in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review.

Background: The availability of smartphone applications has increased rapidly including applications related to palliative care. The scope of these available apps has not been synthesized.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to identify and review available palliative care-related smartphone applications for clinicians.

Health-Care Utilization After Hospice Enrollment in Patients With Heart Failure and Cancer.

This study aimed to examine the role of diagnosis in health-care utilization patterns after hospice enrollment. Using 2007 National Home and Hospice Care Survey data from hospice patients with heart failure (n = 311) and cancer (n = 946), we analyzed emergency service use and discharge to hospital via logistic regression pre- and postpropensity score matching. Prematching, patients with heart failure had twice the odds of emergency services use than patients with cancer ( P < .

The Intergenerational Cycle of Obesity and Its Implications for Nursing Care of Childbearing Women.

Despite intensive focus and interventions at societal and individual levels, more than a third of people in the United States are overweight or obese, and childhood/adolescent obesity rates have dramatically increased during the past three decades. Biomedical research has shown a clear link between the prenatal environment and lifetime adiposity. Children born to overweight and obese women with impaired glucose metabolism show cardiometabolic consequences throughout their life spans that, in turn, affect their children's adiposity.

Unique Correlates of Heart Failure and Cancer Caregiver Satisfaction With Hospice Care.

Context: Heart failure patients, along with their informal caregivers are increasingly enrolling in hospice care. Caregiver satisfaction with hospice care is a key quality indicator. The role that diagnosis plays in shaping satisfaction is unclear.

Does Diagnosis Make a Difference? Comparing Hospice Care Satisfaction in Matched Cohorts of Heart Failure and Cancer Caregivers.

Background: Half of heart failure patients will die within five years of diagnosis, making them an ideal population for hospice to reach. Yet hospice originated in oncology, and problems have been noted with the enrollment of heart failure patients. Whether caregiver satisfaction, a key quality measure in hospice, differs between heart failure and cancer caregivers is unknown.