definition of palliative care

oxford handook of palliative care 2nd ed

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Tài liệu The Cinema in the Teaching of Medicine: Palliative Care and Bioethics pptx

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... “balancer” of concern in the face of death; it helps to produce hope, creates a feeling of perspective and of control of the situation and gives the person a better understanding of himself and ... suicide of an Argentinean veteran in the Falklands war; Born on the Fourth of July (1989) by Oliver Stone, on the consequences of the Vietnam war Reviews of the suffering of veterans or victims of ... and care of patients and their families, while facilitating the acquirement of skills that allow the professionals to offer ethical responses to the concern and dilemmas proper to this stage of...

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Community Palliative Care The Role of the Clinical Nurse Specialist pptx

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... members of the primary health care team and professionals involved in palliative care, on the role of the community palliative care clinical nurse specialist Palliative care is the active, total care ... services Palliative care Palliative care is an important part of the every-day work of most health care professionals, whether they work in the hospital or community setting The word palliative ... the palliative care linchpin of the primary care team and can be considered the key person in the provision of palliative care in the home Specialist palliative care has a variety of functions:...

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báo cáo hóa học: " Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale" pptx

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... undertaken in palliative care sites, in South Africa and in Uganda, based in rural, periurban and urban areas, including homecare, day care and inpatient facilities Two of the sites provide care from ... 3Witwatersrand Palliative Care, PO Box 212, Pimville, Soweto 1808, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa 4African Palliative Care Association, PO Box 72518, Kampala, Uganda 5Hospice Palliative Care Association ... application of appropriate outcome tools Progress in Palliative Care 2007, 15:55-59 12 Collins K, Harding R: Improving HIV management in sub-Saharan Africa: How much palliative care is needed? AIDS Care...

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báo cáo khoa học:" Quality of life among patients receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda: a multi-centred study" ppt

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... multi-dimensional palliative care provided by a multi-professional team Palliative care providers in sub-Saharan Africa are directed to local guidance on supportive and palliative care [77], spiritual care ... a key outcome of palliative care and should be assessed in future research evaluating interventions and models of care in Africa, in order to inform the provision of palliative care in the region ... 15:1188-1195 22 WHO definition of palliative care [http://www.who.int/cancer /palliative/ definition/ en/] 23 Higginson IJ, Carr AJ: Measuring quality of life: Using quality of life measures in...

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Báo cáo y học: "The epidemiology of intensive care unit-acquired hyponatraemia and hypernatraemia in medical-surgical intensive care unit"

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... laboratory values and level of care (full care, full care without cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), comfort care) Severity of illness at inception (within the first day of ICU admission) was assessed ... Serum creatinine, median (IQR) μmol/L Level of care, number (%) Full care 887 (97) 4799 (95) 2018 (94) Full care, but no CPR 30 (3) 258 (5) 135 (6) Comfort care (0) 11(0) (0) *Results reported as ... intensive care during the first 50 days ofserum sodium Proportion of intensive care unit (ICU) patients with serum sodium valvalues outside the normal range during the first 50 days of ICU stay*...

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The Definition of Biotechnology

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... thought of as the manufacturing end of the life sciences industry.” —University of Michigan, School of Medicine “Body of methods and techniques that employ as tools the living cells of organisms ... Department of Commerce made the following observations about the global biotechnology market (U.S Department of Commerce, Survey of the Use of Biotechnology in U.S Industry and U.S Bureau of Labor ... take care of animal diseases The European Community has developed a classiﬁcation of biotechnology according to a particular industrial strategy unique to that type of biotechnology This system of...

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Tài liệu Transformation through Integration An Activity Theoretical Analysis of School Development as Integration of Child Care Institutions and the Elementary School ppt

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... all children above the age of 1.5 years would be offered some kind of public child care not later than the fall of 1991 This was a political statement meaning that child care is an important societal ... the goal of integration were taken in 1996 and 1998: the authority of the child care institutions was transferred from the National Swedish Board of Health and Welfare to the Ministry of Education ... The purpose of that study was to understand school development as an aspect of implementation of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) In the spring of 1998 the principal of North Valley...

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Tài liệu The Tax Credit (New Category of Child Care Provider) Regulations 1999 pptx

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... evidence of status and commitment to equality of opportunity Description of the system Details of the training of independent quality assessors Membership of the awarding panel Details of any charges ... approval for the remainder of the period of approval, unless the Secretary of State is of the opinion that such approval was improperly granted (3) Where the Secretary of State is of such an opinion ... members independent of the organisation and an independent expert with experience of out of school child care provision for children over the age of seven, to approve child care providers; set...

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Tài liệu AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing_1 doc

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Tài liệu AACN Essentials of Critical Care Nursing—Pocket Handbook doc

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... Consultant, Critical Care Nursing and Clinical Research Gainesville, Florida Suzanne M Burns RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM, FAANP Professor of Nursing, Acute and Specialty Care School of Nursing ... similar damages that result from the use of or inability to use the work, even if any of them has been advised of the possibility of such damages This limitation of liability shall apply to any claim ... Assistant Professor University of Florida and Florida A&M University Tampa, Florida Suzanne M Burns, RN, MSN, RRT, ACNP, CCRN, FAAN, FCCM, FAANP Professor of Nursing, Acute and Specialty Care Advanced...

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Tài liệu DIVISION OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND POLICY MEDICAID AND NEVADA CHECK UP FACT BOOK pdf

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... areas of responsibility are Managed Care, medically necessary transportation, and dental benefits for Medicaid and NCU recipients Managed Care Managed care is a method of payment and a care delivery ... delivery of healthcare through managed care organizations for certain Medicaid and Nevada Check Up populations The objectives for the program are to improve access to care and coordination of care, ... reviews of all additional programs under the Continuum of Care Unit Facility Care Unit The Facility Care Unit is responsible for the following programs: Nursing Facilities, Intermediate Care Facilities...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: "Structural Definition of Affixes from Multisyllable Words" docx

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... classification of the weak suffixes by degree of weakness as a means of approaching the suffix-incontext problem Table 2, which reviews the prefixes and suffixes defined by Resnikoff and Dolby, ... sake of consistency but also because it was proven effective The definition for weak affixes has also been extended to include two-syllable affixes Weak affixes are so classified because their definition ... that these definitions exclude admissible final strings from C2 or C3 for prefixes, and admissible initial strings from C2 or C3 for suffixes, in order to increase the reliability of the definition...

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BETTER PALLIATIVE CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE pot

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... The range of settings for care 10 Palliative care: the needs and rights of older people and their families Palliative care The needs of older people at the end of life The needs of caregivers ... decision-making Lack of home care Lack of access to specialist services Lack of palliative care within nursing and residential homes 20 Evidence of effective care solutions Palliative care skills of individual ... (1,2) Palliative care should be offered as needs develop and before they become unmanageable Palliative care must not be something that only specialized palliative care teams, palliative care...

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Evidence-Based Medicine and the Changing Nature of Health Care: Meeting Summary docx

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... the development of a learning healthcare system by taking up this obvious opportunity to improve care quality The High Price of a Lack of Evidence Improving the quality of health care and reducing ... problems in health care Although all healthcare professionals want the best care for their patients, the structure of the healthcare system, payment methods, and expectations of patients for an ... several of the key issues introduced by Cortese: the tremendous negative economic consequences of the rising, unsustainable costs of health care; implications of the variations in healthcare spending...

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Frameworks of Integrated Care for the Elderly: A Systematic Review potx

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... range of terms combined with “integration,” “frameworks of care, ” “models of care, ” “coordination” and care of the elderly” or care of those with chronic conditions” or “continuing care of the ... Social Care of the Elderly 3.3 Reports of Surveys of Features of Integrated Care Models 3.3.1 OECD Survey of Care Coordination 3.3.2 European Union Survey of Integrated Care Approaches ... and social care models; and • articles presenting frameworks of health and social integrated care for seniors 3.0 Results 3.1 Trials of Integrated Models of Care of the Elderly Each of the studies...

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THE FACTORS AFFECTING THE USE OF ELDERLY CARE AND THE NEED FOR RESOURCES BY 2030 IN FINLAND pot

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... estimate on care and resources needed for publicly provided elderly care services Figure Number of elderly using care Domicile care Institutional care Trend 500000 400000 300000 300000 Shift in care ... Figure 29 Number of employees needed Domicile care Institutional care Trend 90000 45000 Good care 35000 Shift in care years by 2030 30000 25000 20000 Shift in care years by 2030, good care 15000 10000 ... take care of 344 000 patients Three years postponement in the use of care would keep the required number of employees approximately at current level, leaving room to improve the quality of care...

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Frail homebound elderly: basic nursing challenges of home care doc

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... level of care The principle of the lowest effective level of care (LEON ) was first introduced in a White Paper (22) and has since been one of the basic principles of Norwegian health care policy ... responsibility for care This thesis compares formal and informal care across the sites related to care burden Home is looked upon as the lowest level of care However, the care often carried out ... lowest rates of urinary catheter use were found in Helsinki and Stockholm (IV) Caregivers of individuals with urinary and faecal incontinence reported stress more often than caregivers of continent...

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Elderly people´s definition of quality of life potx

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... ‘as the components of the quality of life are personal, the most adequate procedure to measure it seems to be the use of the individual definitions of each interviewed.’ The aim of this study was ... theory of the 60’s that situates the ‘activity’ as a determinant of well-aging, developed by a group of researchers of Chicago According to a review by Neri,18 the basic notion of this theory of ... demonstrating that there is no agreement about what is a measure of the quality of life The validity of the measurements of quality of life is difficult to be established as there are no ways to...

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