Palliative Care - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The need for hospital-based neonatal palliative care programs in Saudi Arabia.

30 Aug 2009 The terms palliative care, supportive care, and comfort care are used to describe individualized care that can provide a dying person the best quality of life until the end. The term "end-of-life care" is also used in a general sense to refer to all ... Read more...

Core attitudes of professionals in palliative care: a qualitative study.

30 Jul 2009 INTRODUCTION: Self-awareness of one's own reactions towards patients and their relatives is of paramount importance for all professionals in palliative care. 'Core attitude' describes the way in which a person perceives himself and the world, and ... Read more...

Palliative respite services using nursing staff reduces hospitalization of patients and improves acceptance among carers.

30 Jul 2009 People caring for palliative patients at home identify respite care as a key need. However, caregiver concern over the skill level of respite care providers has been cited as a common barrier to uptake and satisfaction with respite services. This ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Palliative Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• The need for hospital-based neonatal palliative care programs in Saudi Arabia. 30 Aug 2009
• Core attitudes of professionals in palliative care: a qualitative study. 30 Jul 2009
• Palliative respite services using nursing staff reduces hospitalization of patients and improves acceptance among carers. 30 Jul 2009
• The implementation of an end-of-life integrated care pathway in a Chinese population. 30 Jul 2009
• A review of paediatric palliative care nursing education in Latin America. 30 Jul 2009
• Advocating palliative nursing. 30 Jul 2009
• Palliative care matters. 30 Jul 2009
• Palliative care in Lebanon: knowledge, attitudes and practices. 29 Jun 2009
• Quality-of-life assessment in a palliative care setting in Germany: an outcome evaluation. 29 Jun 2009
• Developing meaningful learning experiences in palliative care nursing education. 29 Jun 2009
• Understanding the influence of palliative care nursing: a global perspective. 29 Jun 2009
• A passage to Switzerland. 29 Jun 2009
• A model to improve value: the interdisciplinary palliative care services agreement. 29 Jun 2009
• After hours palliative care. 29 Jun 2009
• Incorporating patients' spirituality into care using Gadow's ethical framework. 29 Jun 2009
• 2009 Circle of Life Awards. 29 Jun 2009
• [Care of the dying in the hospital: initial experience with the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) in Germany] 21 Jun 2009
• [Care networks, mobile palliative and supportive teams. What benefits are there for patients, natural caregivers and general practitioners in patient homes?] 18 Jun 2009
• Palliative care considerations in mass casualty events with scarce resources. 30 May 2009
• A unique milieu for perioperative care of adult congenital heart disease patients at a single institution. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Palliative Care'

Definition: Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)

Descriptor UI: D010166

Alternative terms: Palliative Care; Care, Palliative; Therapy, Palliative; Palliative Therapy; Palliative Treatment; Palliative Treatments; Treatment, Palliative; Treatments, Palliative; Palliative Surgery; Surgery, Palliative; Palliative Medicine; Medicine, Palliative;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.666; N02.421.585.666;

History Note: 96; was PALLIATIVE TREATMENT 1964-95 (Prov 1964-65)

Technical Notes: = relief without cure; coord IM with disease /ther or /surg or /drug ther or other specific qualif (IM); consider also PAIN /ther