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The earlier palliative group not only had better quality of life based on the Functional assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, but the palliative care group also had less depressive symptoms (16% vs. 38%, P=0.01) despite having received less aggressive end-of-life care (33% vs. 54%, P=0.05) and ...
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a care pathway in the United Kingdom (excluding Wales) covering palliative care options for patients in the final days or hours of life. It was developed to help doctors and nurses provide quality end-of-life care, to transfer quality end-of-life care from the hospice to hospital ...
Palliative care (from Latin root palliare "to cloak") is an interdisciplinary medical caregiving approach aimed at optimising quality of life and mitigating or reducing suffering among people with serious, complex, and often terminal illnesses. [1]
The International Journal of Palliative Nursing is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering palliative care nursing. It was established in 1995 and is published by the Mark Allen Group . The editor-in-chief is Brian Nyatanga (of the University of Worcester ).
Ambler, a Stanford University medical student, has pioneered an innovative approach to palliative care by transforming patients' life stories into spontaneous musical compositions. She has paused ...
Palliative care got its start as hospice care delivered largely by caregivers at religious institutions. The first formal hospice was founded in 1948 by the British physician Dame Cicely Saunders in order to care for patients with terminal illnesses. [2] She defined key physical, emotional, social, and spiritual dimensions of distress in her work.
Traditional state-based legal protections for such health care quality improvement activities, collectively known as peer review protections, are limited in scope: They do not exist in all States; typically they only apply to peer review in hospitals and do not cover other health care settings, and seldom enable health care systems to pool data ...
The Journal of Palliative Medicine (JPM) is the journal of both the Center to Advance Palliative Care and the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association. JPM covers aspects of end of life medical care. Until 2008, JPM was the official journal of the American Association of Hospice and Palliative Medicine.