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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.02.012 | DOI Listing |
Support Care Cancer
January 2025
Department of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine, Nihon University Itabashi Hospital, Tokyo, Japan.
Purpose: For cancer patients, prognostication by physicians constitutes a fundamental basis of decision-making to manage the cancer journey, especially with advanced stages of cancer. Various tools such as the palliative prognostic index (PPI) have been established to estimate patient survival. Such reliable and widely applied tools unfortunately provide unexpected results of prognosis predictions in some cases.
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December 2024
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Importance: Previous research suggests that a greater capacity of health care organizations to address patients' health-related social needs (HRSNs) is associated with lower physician burnout. However, individual physician-level engagement in addressing HRSNs has not been fully characterized, and its association with physician burnout remains understudied.
Objective: To characterize physicians' engagement in addressing HRSNs and examine its association with burnout.
J Palliat Med
January 2025
Section of Geriatrics and Palliative Care, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
Cardiogenic shock (CS) is one of the leading causes of death in patients with myocardial infarction, myocarditis, and congestive heart failure. The utilization patterns of specialist palliative care (PC) consultation in these patients are currently unknown. To determine the utilization of PC in patients with CS and the overall comorbidities of that population.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlzheimers Dement
December 2024
Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Background: The WHO's Global Dementia Action Plan comprises seven action areas, including dementia diagnosis, treatment, care, and support. Palliative care is called for as a core component of the care continuum from the diagnosis to the end of life. Japan has pursued a holistic care approach in dementia policies.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFInt J Ment Health Nurs
February 2025
Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Knowledge is needed about end-of-life care among patients with pre-existing severe mental disorders: Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression. This study aimed to explore the experiences with end-of-life care for patients with severe mental disorders, their relatives, specialised palliative care nurses and physicians, and general practitioners. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis, hereby six interviews with patients, three with relatives, five with general practitioners, and six with specialised palliative healthcare professionals.
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