News tagged with palliative care
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Americans are treated, and overtreated, to death
(AP) -- The doctors finally let Rosaria Vandenberg go home. For the first time in months, she was able to touch her 2-year-old daughter who had been afraid of the tubes and machines in the hospital. The little girl climbed ...
Jun 28, 2010 |
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Attitudes must change if we are to achieve a good death for all, say experts
Society's attitudes towards dying, death and bereavement need to change if we are to achieve a good death for all, say experts in a special series of articles published in the British Medical Journal today in the first BMJ "S ...
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Living wills are poor predictors of actual treatment preferences at the end of life
Living wills often do not represent a patient's actual treatment preferences when faced with real end-of-life circumstances and should be redesigned to guide more realistic advance decision-making, according to a study published ...
May 19, 2010 |
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Mayo Clinic review of ethical decision making with end-of-life care
In a review article published in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Mayo Clinic physicians differentiate the ethical and legal permissibility of withholding or withdrawing life-sustaining treatments and accept ...
Oct 01, 2010 |
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Suffering caused by dialysis for nursing home seniors may outweigh its benefits, researchers find
Older Americans living in nursing homes experience a significant decline in their ability to perform simple daily tasks — such as feeding themselves, getting dressed or brushing their teeth — after starting dialysis, say ...
Oct 14, 2009 |
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Is patient coding making hospitals appear better than they are?
In this week's BMJ, Nigel Hawkes, freelance journalist and Director of Straight Statistics, a campaign for the better use of statistical data, investigates how the way that patients are allocated diagnostic codes by a hosp ...
Apr 25, 2010 |
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Exposure to death and dying can have a positive impact
Exposure to death and dying does not negatively affect palliative and hospice care professionals and can actually have positive benefits, states an article in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
Dec 06, 2010 |
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Relationships hold key to spiritual care
Relationships hold the key to giving terminally ill patients the spiritual care they need. However, researchers have pinpointed a mismatch between patients' expectations and understanding when it comes to spirituality, and ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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