Palliative Care - Standards
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Medicine residents' self-perceived competence in end-of-life care.

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: Internal medicine residents frequently provide end-of-life care, yet feel inadequately trained and uncomfortable providing this care, despite efforts to improve end-of-life care curricula. Understanding how residents' experiences and ... Read more...

[Care of the dying in the hospital: initial experience with the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) in Germany]

21 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: In the last few years public interest in the care of severely ill and dying patients has been growing. The aim of palliative medicine is to improve the care of the dying. However, this is still not achieved in many general ... Read more...

A national facilitation project to improve primary palliative care: impact of the Gold Standards Framework on process and self-ratings of quality.

30 May 2009 BACKGROUND: Improving quality of end-of-life care is a key driver of UK policy. The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) for Palliative Care aims to strengthen primary palliative care through facilitating implementation of systematic clinical and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Palliative Care - Standards'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicine residents' self-perceived competence in end-of-life care. 30 Oct 2009
• Personalizing cancer care: American Society of Clinical Oncology presidential address 2009. 4 Jul 2009
• Article highlights barriers to quality end-of-life care. 29 Jun 2009
• Palliative care: Where have we come from and where are we going? 26 Jun 2009
• [Care of the dying in the hospital: initial experience with the Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) in Germany] 21 Jun 2009
• A national facilitation project to improve primary palliative care: impact of the Gold Standards Framework on process and self-ratings of quality. 30 May 2009
• Adherence to medication guideline criteria in cancer pain management. 30 May 2009
• Measuring impacts of value to patients is crucial when evaluating palliative care. 30 May 2009
• Key stakeholders' experiences and views of the NHS End of Life Care Programme: findings from a national evaluation. 30 May 2009
• Quality medical care in gastroenterology: lessons from palliative medicine. 30 May 2009
• Practice paper of the American Dietetic Association: Home care--opportunities for food and nutrition professionals. 30 May 2009
• Palliative cancer care a decade later: accomplishments, the need, next steps -- from the American Society of Clinical Oncology. 16 May 2009
• Cancer care. 29 Apr 2009
• Improving palliative care. 29 Apr 2009
• [Palliative care, an unfair decree] 29 Apr 2009
• Pain management within the palliative and end-of-life care experience in the ICU. 29 Apr 2009
• Meeting information needs of patients with incurable progressive disease and their families in South Africa and Uganda: multicentre qualitative study. 20 Apr 2009
• Quality measures for supportive cancer care: the Cancer Quality-ASSIST Project. 6 Apr 2009
• Ratings of symptoms and comfort in dementia patients at the end of life: comparison of nurses and families. Apr 2009
• Providing good palliative care for patients at home. 30 Mar 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