5 results match your criteria: "The Palliative Care Center[Affiliation]"
Specialized palliative outpatient clinic care involvement associated with decreased end-of-life hospital costs in cancer patients, a single center study.
BMC Palliat Care
December 2024
The Palliative Care Center, Päijät-Häme Wellbeing Services County, Lahti, Finland.
Background: Studies show that hospital deaths bring significant health care costs, and the involvement of specialized palliative care can help to reduce these costs. The aim of this retrospective registry-based study was to evaluate end-of-life hospital costs in patients dying in a university hospital oncology ward, with or without specialized palliative outpatient clinic contact at any timepoint.
Methods: The study population consists of all patients who died in the Kuopio University Hospital oncology ward in the years 2012-2018 (n = 457).
Twelve Years of Postgraduate Palliative Medicine Training in Finland: How International Guidelines Are Implemented.
Palliat Med Rep
September 2021
Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
The European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) published recommendations for postgraduate education in palliative medicine in 2009. However, it is currently unknown how the EAPC remommendations are implemented in national programs, as audits of them are lacking. In Finland, the national society of palliative medicine has been organizing postgraduate palliative medicine training for experienced physicians since 2008, but the program has not been audited.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImpact of Dying Neonates on Doctors' and Nurses' Personhood: A Systematic Scoping Review.
J Pain Symptom Manage
January 2022
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Center Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Division of Cancer Education, National Cancer Center Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, Singapore; Palliative Care Institute Liverpool, Academic Palliative & End of Life Care Center, University of Liverpool, Cancer Research Center, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom; Center of Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore; PalC, The Palliative Care Center for Excellence in Research and Education, Singapore, Singapore. Electronic address:
Context: Caring for dying neonates is distressing for healthcare professionals (HCP)s. Yet, the extent of these effects is poorly understood, compromising support of HCPs. To better understand and support HCPs, a systematic scoping review (SSR) of prevailing data is proposed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPrognostication in Home-Dwelling Patients with Advanced Dementia: The Palliative Support DEMentia Model (PalS-DEM).
J Am Med Dir Assoc
February 2021
Department of Palliative Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; The Palliative Care Center for Excellence in Research and Education, Singapore; Dover Park Hospice, Singapore.
Objective: Difficulties with prognostication prevent more patients with advanced dementia from receiving timely palliative support. The aim of this study is to develop and validate a prognostic model for 6-month and 1-year mortality in home-dwelling patients with advanced dementia.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Evaluating the Outcomes of an Organizational Initiative to Expand End-of-Life Resources in Intensive Care Units With Palliative Support Tools and Floating Hospice.
Dimens Crit Care Nurs
March 2021
Natalie S. McAndrew, PhD, RN, ANCS-BC, CCRN-K, is an assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Nurse Scientist at Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. Dr McAndrew's program of research focuses on developing, testing and translating interventions to increase collaborative palliative care for patients and their families in acute and critical care. Colleen McCracken, BSN, RN, CMSRN, CHPN, OCN, is a nurse educator for an inpatient oncology and palliative care unit at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. As a palliative and hospice expert she focuses on improving patient access to these services and supporting high quality palliative and hospice nursing care. Aniko Szabo, PhD, is an associate professor and director of the Biostatistics Consulting Service at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr Sabo's research interests are in statistical modeling of biomedical data. She collaborates with biomedical investigators across the entire spectrum of translational research. Balaji Narayanan, MS, IE, is a process improvement leader and Six Sigma Black Belt at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. Mr. Narayanan is interested in supporting the growth of palliative and hospice care within healthcare organizations. Wendy Peltier, MD, is an associate professor of Medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Section Head of the Palliative Care Center in the Division of Hematology and Oncology. Dr Peltier has extensive background in medical education, leadership and neuromuscular neurology. She is interested in the development of models for 'upstream' palliative care in serious illness and inpatient hospice for critically ill patients. Jane Leske, PhD, RN, ACNS-BC, FAAN, is professor Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee College of Nursing and a Nurse Scientist at Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee. Dr Leske is well known for her 30-year history of research focused on family needs in the ICU. Her research has been central to changes in the care for families of critically ill individuals worldwide.
Background: There is evidence that palliative care and floating (inpatient) hospice can improve end-of-life experiences for patients and their families in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, both palliative care and hospice remain underutilized in the ICU setting.
Objectives: This study examined palliative consultations and floating hospice referrals for ICU patients during a phased launch of floating hospice, 2 palliative order sets, and general education to support implementation of palliative care guidelines.