Publications by authors named "Tania Dos Santos Afonso"
Article Synopsis
- Patients nearing end-of-life often end up in emergency departments due to insufficient community support and palliative care resources.
- Researchers conducted a literature review and consulted palliative care experts to define 'avoidable admissions' for these patients.
- The study concluded that emergency admissions are avoidable if symptoms can be managed at home or in primary care, especially if immediate medical attention isn't required.
Non-communicable chronic diseases (NCCDs) are the main cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Demographic aging has resulted in older populations with more complex healthcare needs. This necessitates a multilevel rethinking of healthcare policies, health education and community support systems with digitalization of technologies playing a central role.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Nurses have an important role in maintaining a patient's nutrition near the end of life.
Aims: To define nursing nutrition strategies with the person near the end of life and their families; systematise the elements to be considered in artificial nutrition decision-making and evaluate the nursing interventions' influence on therapeutic obstinacy risk.
Methods: A sample of 11 articles were selected and the results considered strategies to promote oral feeding before artificial nutrition; the follow-up of the health-disease process by nurses and described the nurse's role as a privileged patient advocate in the defence of the ethical principles of decision-making.