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Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) regime was introduced in 2016 and expanded in 2021. Within its framework, euthanasia accounts for almost all cases. MAiD operates through two legal pathways ...
Background Improving community palliative care outside of normal working hours is a patient and family priority. Aim To explore patient and families’ perspectives of four different UK models of out-of ...
Results Despite the severe symptoms and poor prognosis associated with inoperable malignant bowel obstruction, in hospitals, early involvement of palliative care teams was often resisted. Patients can ...
1 Palliative and End of Life Care Group in Cambridge (PELiCAM), Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK 2 Nottingham Centre for ...
Background Intraoperative deaths, though statistically rare, may evoke varied emotions among operating room (OR) staff that remain underrecognized and inadequately addressed. Aim To synthesise the ...
Objective Palliative care enhances the quality of life for individuals with life-limiting illnesses, but frequent exposure to death and suffering poses emotional challenges for professionals. This ...
Objectives Assess the palliative care needs of patients with progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) and corticobasal syndrome (CBS), focusing on symptom burden, quality of life, caregiver strain and ...
Background The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) ran a national Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service evaluation from 2013, using the Family Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care (FAMCARE-2) ...
Objectives The objective of this study was to assess the palliative care needs of patients with neurological conditions through the application of the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool ...
Background There is evidence that opportunities learners have to practice key skills in a range of situations will equip them more effectively for the workplace (Chernikova, Heitzmann, Stadler, et al.
2 Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Objective To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use ...