While we all can understand how belittling that experience must have been, shooting the messenger is never the recommended palliative. |
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The hospital management and the council seem in agreement that cash is a palliative but not a panacea. |
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This course may be punctuated by the positive or negative effects of palliative oncological treatment. |
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A form detailing palliative care management should be completed by the patient's general practitioner. |
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After ten years of palliative measures, the fundamental problems of the Japanese economy are nowhere near a solution. |
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The dim lights and subdued strains of music wafted across the hall, giving a palliative effect. |
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Focus groups were used in an exploratory study to examine the perceptions of palliative care among cardiorespiratory nurses. |
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The management of pain from gastric carcinoma follows established palliative care practice. |
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With every new tragedy, state officials respond with palliative measures and assurances that the issue will be studied further. |
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The typical model of cancer palliative care might not suit people who have a gradual, progressive decline with unpredictable exacerbations. |
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As a practical matter, the current legal regime substitutes palliative euphemisms for useful controls on police discretion. |
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She was referred to her local palliative care team and was delighted at their positive and unpatronising attitude. |
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If treatment cannot provide the patient a quality life, then it is considered better to give no treatment beyond palliative measures. |
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In patients with advanced colorectal cancer, chemotherapy is delivered with palliative rather than curative intent. |
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It demonstrates that the use of blood transfusion in palliative care requires further discussion. |
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We have many palliative drugs, and many ways of suppressing the symptoms of illness, but hardly any cures. |
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The patient may be required to consider specific palliative treatment and the effect of their request on their family. |
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We included data on oesophageal and gastric operations for malignant and benign disease with palliative or curative intent. |
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They studied 48 patients attending hospital clinics for respiratory, cardiac, general, or palliative medicine in Australia. |
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Every time the boys' boredom threatens to go off like a klaxon, she produces another palliative. |
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More than anything, the book is a testimony to the therapeutic and palliative effects of time and travel. |
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If not, the measure would be a simple ineffective palliative, but not a solution to the problem. |
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But sometimes it can be a rude awakening for students who think of spirituality as a palliative, a pill, or a magic healer of emotional ills. |
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Disgusted with the bland, palliative Lutheranism of his day, he stresses duty, self-sacrifice, and total commitment. |
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It would have, in essence, offered a short-term palliative to a longer-term problem. |
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Most palliative care units try to involve family members and friends who are important and close to the person dying. |
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Not all hospitals and healthcare facilities offer palliative care services. |
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Because of his unresponsiveness to treatment and further progression of disease, the patient chose to receive only palliative medical care. |
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Even in cases of incurable cancer, palliative or experimental therapy may improve quality and extent of life. |
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In effect he found that feeding via intravenous drip constitutes medical treatment, not palliative care. |
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Optimising quality of life before a timely, dignified, and peaceful death are the primary aims of palliative care. |
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The emergence of terminal and hospice care, and subsequent endorsement of the specialty of palliative medicine, is a clear expression of this. |
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Poland also has three chairs in palliative medicine and a substantial programme of medical teaching. |
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In the past, treatment consisted of palliative therapy with pain relievers and folic acid supplements. |
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Physicians are believed to know how to ensure a painless death, and they are in a position to offer palliative care knowledgeably. |
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Their comments illustrate how difficult and controversial paediatric palliative care still is. |
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Because of the poor prognosis, palliative methods are needed to maintain airway patency. |
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Such prescriptions may affect two thirds of inpatients in specialist palliative care units. |
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Even exercising our vote may turn out to be no more than palliative in a democracy continually subverted by the power of money. |
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The patient was discharged to the nursing home under the care of the palliative care team. |
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She willingly lectures at conferences on palliative care, oncology nursing, and pain management. |
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Such considerations did not seem to apply to events of overt polymedication or of palliative care. |
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Promoting spiritual health care in palliative medicine for terminally ill patients who undergo physical and psychological suffering. |
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This applies in particular to volunteering in palliative care, i.e. for visitation of seriously or terminally ill patients. |
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The purpose of palliative care is to improve the quality of remaining life rather than to prolong it or affect a cure. |
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Provincial and territorial funding for research on hospice palliative care is clearly either extremely limited or completely nonexistent. |
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The perception is that somehow it is substandard care and that curative treatment and palliative care are mutually exclusive. |
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At best they are palliative and patronising, at worst they reinforce the victimhood of Africans and the saviour status of westerners. |
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A permanent fixture, everything is explained in it, from the basic principles of palliative care to its origin and evolution. |
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Protective and palliative care includes moisturizing and padding callused skin. |
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The palliative care consulting team was led by the director of geriatrics. |
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It is a useful visual aid to help explain palliative care to patients and families, and for the general public. |
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We must avoid making palliative care the automatic fate of certain groups deemed somehow undeserving of full and complete conventional care. |
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This confusion and reluctance to talk about how things are going may cause unnecessary delay in providing palliative care. |
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Consequently, their expectations regarding medicine and technology can sometimes seem excessive and be a hindrance to timely palliative care. |
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There is more work needed to be done in these areas as most of these strategies pay little attention to the issue of hospice palliative care. |
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This video can be used to heighten awareness about palliative care and address some of the common questions and concerns about it. |
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It can be as simple as an hour spent reading a book with a younger sibling or as complex as providing palliative care to an ailing elder. |
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Patients and families were reluctant to accept palliative care, as this meant accepting that death was imminent. |
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Bereavement programs are often part of the comprehensive care offered as part of palliative care. |
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It is essential that we include bereavement services as part of the basket of palliative care services. |
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The choice of radiotherapy regimen was left to the local radiotherapist, but the two regimens shown in previous trials to have good palliative effect were recommended. |
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Canadians are still being presented with the hospital as their best or only choice for palliative care in many parts of Canada. |
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Hospitals are viewed as dehumanized environments where the status of palliative care nurses is very low. |
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The goals of home and community care nursing can be preventative, curative, rehabilitative, palliative or supportive. |
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Untimely referral to hospice and palliative care is a form of underuse as is inattention to patient and family needs for nonmedical support. |
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In early stages, palliative measures such as pain control may be only a small part of overall care. |
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Room and board as well as support services must meet palliative care quality norms and standards. |
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The product has potential applications in other dermatological indications such as a palliative in eczema. |
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As hospice palliative care providers, we will respect their right to choose and will not abandon them. |
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More often palliative than reparative, action is taken only after changes to the environment have been observed. |
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I would also co-locate palliative care clinicians with relevant departments such as oncology, geriatrics and general practice. |
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Readers are cautioned that therapies and clinical recommendations in geriatrics and palliative care are constantly evolving. |
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The disciplines of geriatrics, gerontology and palliative care, in large measure, work in isolation from each other. |
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Their health is put at risk because their nutritional needs are not met, and palliative and home-based care may be disrupted. |
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In many cases, physicians are reluctant to refer patients to palliative care for fear that the demand will outstrip resources. |
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If a patient expects CPR, then care likely will be provided in a setting other than a palliative care unit. |
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This report sets out a vision for palliative care in the future with realistic and attainable goals. |
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Palliative care is a basic service in all provinces and territories, so there's no charge for palliative care in a hospital. |
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This was followed by a positive discussion around the real issue of access to hospice palliative care. |
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The point to be made is that euthanasia and assisted suicide is not and never will be a part of hospice palliative care. |
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The lack of access to quality palliative care has contributed to the resurgence in the debate on euthanasia and assisted suicide. |
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One particular area of home care, palliative home care, bears special mention. |
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It's important to check with your father's palliative care team to find out the steps you need to follow. |
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Another factor to take account of is that many institutions have reduced palliative care beds. |
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Provincial home palliative care programs may place limits on the amount of professional and personal support services paid for publicly. |
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Some of us students volunteered to visit the hospital, and to spend time with people who were in palliative care, and dying from cancer. |
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In a palliative care setting, helping the dying to die with dignity is the highest ethical imperative. |
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A palliative care physician is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide advice and expertise. |
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The patient received palliative radiation to the neck and systemic chemotherapy, but she died of widely metastatic disease approximately 2 years after the thyroidectomy. |
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Many of these speak of palliative care interchangeably with, and sometimes as distinct from, end-of-life care. |
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The goal of palliative care is to provide comfort and dignity for the patient. |
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As I have already said, we can support the ideas on palliative care that you mentioned in the debate. |
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Note: Attending to patients in palliative care in Salzburg requires several years of training. |
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I invite all members of Parliament to join the parliamentary committee on palliative and compassionate care. |
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A comprehensive or complete strategy for treatment will go beyond medication to include other forms of therapy and palliative care. |
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Control of disease-related conditions, for example, the advancement of knowledge in the field of palliative medicine and care. |
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The goal of the project is to improve the care and well-being of seniors requiring palliative care and their families. |
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This study is important because of the increasing need for hospice palliative care in homes and communities. |
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However, palliative care is increasingly being provided in a home setting by a spouse or other primary caregivers, such as a family member. |
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She was offered palliative chemotherapy and radiation therapy. |
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Other measures focus on early detection of cancers, augmentation of treatment facilities and establishment of equitable pain control and a palliative care network. |
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Skills in palliative care are an important component of good management in the terminal stages of the condition, and communication is particularly crucial at this point. |
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He had been discharged from the tertiary unit for palliative care. |
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The socially defined knowledge and experience of nurses was explored to determine the collective perception of palliative care in cardiorespiratory disease. |
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Hospice services are provided for patients with a predicted life expectancy of 6 months or less who have elected palliative rather than curative care. |
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Some are specific to cancer, others are adjunctive or palliative. |
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He is a registrar doing advanced training in palliative medicine. |
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Making appreciable impact on the quality of patients' lives with relatively small interventions will always be one of the joys of working in palliative medicine. |
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Complementary treatments have many advocates in palliative medicine, and many hospice services offer, or are under pressure to offer, such treatments. |
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A quarter of all prescriptions in palliative medicine are for licensed drugs that are used for unlicensed indications or that are given by an unlicensed route. |
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It had to resort to palliative measures such as social assistance, and a restructuring plan for the Belgian industry, which was hardest hit by the crisis. |
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I'll be interested to see if it offers any greater palliative effect. |
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If this palliative censorship worked at all, it worked to alleviate some symptoms manifest in racist broadcasts at the dawn of commercial television. |
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Nor does the structure admit individual improvement of caste, as a palliative measure, though the possibility of change of an entire caste is apparently recognized. |
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The solution should be sought in fast and radical changes to the law on the health insurance system, not in palliative measures like deferment or waiver of debts. |
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The local standard of care for HIV and AIDS includes only palliative care. |
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The NHS can also commission the expertise of organisations in the voluntary sector to compliment palliative care. |
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All palliative care services provide support for both the patient and their relatives during and after the dying process. |
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Common treatments include palliative care, surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation therapy. |
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These medicine kits are kept in locked boxes which are left in the home with the palliative patient and contain medications such as pain killers, sedatives, and antinausea medications. |
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In addition to palliative care for the terminally ill, the centre will provide specialized technical and psychological support to the afflicted families. |
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People should have the freedom to choose palliative care and pain relief, but they should also be free to choose other alternatives, including euthanasia. |
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Complementary therapies are often used in palliative care or by practitioners attempting to manage chronic pain in patients. |
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Integrative medicine is considered more acceptable in the interdisciplinary approach used in palliative care than in other areas of medicine. |
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The NHS also provides end of life palliative care in the form of Palliative Care Specialist Nurses. |
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Despite their names, these services are designed for all palliative conditions, not exclusively cancer. |
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Hospital does not mean any establishment used mainly as a clinic, extended or palliative care facility, rehabilitation facility, addiction treatment centre, convalescent, rest or nursing home, home for the aged or health spa. |
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Whether educating future health care professionals or consumers of health care, Canada has some of the most impassioned champions of palliative care in the world. |
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Much more than an intervention technique that is often inefficient when it is not supported with symbolic and interrelational work, palliative care consist first and foremost of mannerism and state of mind. |
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It may be affiliated with a hospital or other palliative care program. |
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Dr. Cornie Woelk is an award-winning rural family practice physician, with more than 20 years of experience in rural palliative and cancer care, and with regional, provincial and national medical organizations. |
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What options are available for palliative care or symptom control? |
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Furthermore, they think that the legalization of euthanasia and assisted suicide could lead to a decrease in palliative care services and research investment in the field. |
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Pamidronate prevents skeletal complications and is effective palliative treatment in women with breast carcinoma and osteolytic bone metastases. |
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The emphasis on beneficence rather than patient autonomy in parental substitute decision-making leads to a prima facie bias toward curative rather than palliative options. |
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According to him, the goal of palliative care is to offer medical care by a multidisciplinary team and to surround terminal patients with human warmth. |
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A national public homecare program should provide a continuum of services, including health promotion and prevention and curative, rehabilitative, and palliative services. |
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Therapeutic obstinacy, the refusal or withdrawal of treatment, living wills, palliative care, and sedation: this short list gives an idea of the subject's breadth. |
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The only palliative so far licensed by the Food and Drug Administration is an ointment called acyclovir, made by Burroughs Wellcome, which relieves the symptoms during an initial attack of herpes. |
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She believes timely education, emotional support and community services are fundamental to enabling family members to provide palliative care in the community setting. |
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All these professionals also have training in palliative care, in areas such as pain management, grief, spirituality, and helping patients and their families make decisions about end-of-life care. |
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We also wish to stress the dedication of the people who accompany palliative care patients right up to their last breath, a reality we were able to glimpse during the hearings. |
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Given that most people who do not die suddenly may need palliative care at least for a short while, it is not hard to imagine the effects this phenomenon may have on palliative care. |
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When presented with a choice, Canadians, by more than a three-to-one margin, think that the greater priority for government should be investing in palliative care rather than legalizing euthanasia. |
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Known for his compassion and empathy for all people, Dr. Mount pioneered the palliative care movement in North America and has spent more than 30 years advocating for quality care when cure is not possible. |
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Oxycodone is a narcotic frequently used as a pain reliever for the treatment of moderate to severe short-term and long-term pain as well as palliative care for the terminally ill. |
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A specialist palliative care team usually includes a physician, clinical nurse specialist or nurse, social worker, spiritual advisor and volunteers. |
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The lack of palliative care content in professional health education curricula and lack of palliative care training for nonprofessional caregivers has negative implications for seniors who are at the end of life. |
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We believe that the option of staying at home as long as is possible, and perhaps dying at home as most Canadians wish, needs to be supported with increased resources and specialized hospice palliative care resources. |
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The palliative care unit has become a financial black hole. |
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This occasion gives Canadian hospice palliative care programs and services the opportunity to showcase their accomplishments and promote discussion of palliative care issues. |
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The Government was working on developing stronger palliative care as an alternative to euthanasia, but was not considering revising the euthanasia law. |
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Should Parliament decide to legalize euthanasia and assisted suicide before ensuring that every Canadian has access to palliative care, our government will not be allowing individuals a truly free choice. |
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The same story holds true for palliative care as it does for home care. |
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Living well until the end is the goal of palliative care. |
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Parliament finally adopted a motion mandating the Government to submit proposals for legislation on indirect and passive euthanasia and to take measures to promote palliative medicine. |
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One analogy that has been presented is that of a 'dimmer switch' instead of an 'onoff switch' model of palliative care, such that palliative measures are introduced simultaneously with potentially curative treatments. |
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The overall goals of palliative and end of life care are to improve the quality of living and dying for people with dementia and to minimize unnecessary suffering. |
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This initiative is breaking new ground in Canada, as a means of developing collaborative models to share knowledge around hospice palliative care. |
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The second assessment tool, the palliative performance scale, will be introduced with the collaborative care plans, increasing consistency in practice and communication. |
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The inclusion of some of their law as part of the Salic Law must have served as a palliative. |
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The focus will include professional issues in the family nursing role, and the nursing interventions of promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, palliative and supportive care services. |
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One of the barriers to incorporating palliative care services more effectively into the system is the lack of education and training in palliative care. |
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Cutaneous vesicostomy for palliative management of hemorrhagic cystitis and urinary clot retention. |
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Hospice care is a form of palliative care for people who are dying, but palliative care isn't about dying. |
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Related: I faced a difficult choice – become a GP or give up on a career in the NHS The GP who gives his home phone number to palliative care patients' families at weekends in case they need him. |
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On the living-room table lies a palliative care pocket guide. |
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As a result, our palliative team implemented a three tiered interactive palliative training program which was made available to staff and family caregivers. |
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We meet those needs through continuing care, palliative care, stroke and geriatric rehabilitation, long-term care, hospices, home care and family medicine. |
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Lymphoedema is a chronic condition occurring in some metastatic cancers and is found in around five to 10 per cent of all new palliative patients. |
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It will also be shared via the National Hospice Foundation and social media sources to help people understand the many benefits of hospice and palliative care. |
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If local findings, the absence of peritonitis, and the clinical picture permit it, cases of this type can be managed by a radical curvative or palliative resection. |
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Fifty 35-74 yr old terminally ill cancer patients received either routine medical and psychological palliative care or standard care plus hypnosis. |
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