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Terminally Ill - Statistics & numerical data
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Definition of 'Terminally Ill'Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780) Common names: Terminally Ill; Ill, Terminally |
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10 Jun 2009 
BACKGROUND: Few data have been published about terminally ill patients with gastrointestinal tumors treated in palliative care units. PATIENTS AND METHODS: We analyzed the data of 737 admissions of 435 patients that were treated in a palliative care ... Read more...
Clinical pathology differences in laboratory utilization in hospice and nonhospice units.
30 Mar 2009 A significant difference can be observed between hospice and nonhospice philosophy. Nonhospice units direct its effort to cure and sustain patient's life using disease-modifying therapeutic procedures, while hospice units focus on patient's quality ... Read more...
11 Mar 2009 BACKGROUND: We used case-control design to compare utilization of health and social services between older decedents and survivors, and to identify the respective impact of age and closeness of death on the utilization of services. METHODS: Data ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Terminally Ill - Statistics & numerical data'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- A new era of for-profit hospice care--the Medicare benefit.
23 Jun 2009 - Presentation, treatment, and analysis of prognostic factors of terminally ill patients with gastrointestinal tumors. 10 Jun 2009
- Clinical pathology differences in laboratory utilization in hospice and nonhospice units. 30 Mar 2009
- Age and closeness of death as determinants of health and social care utilization: a case-control study. 11 Mar 2009
- Predicting factors in the last week of survival in elderly patients with terminal cancer: a prospective study in southern Taiwan.
27 Feb 2009 - Vulnerability and access to care for South Asian Sikh and Muslim patients with life limiting illness in Scotland: prospective longitudinal qualitative study. Feb 2009
- Where the dying live: a systematic review of determinants of place of end-of-life cancer care. 30 Dec 2008
- Dyspnea--a bad prognosis symptom at the end of life. 27 Dec 2008
- Consistent and breakthrough pain in diverse advanced cancer patients: a longitudinal examination. 30 Nov 2008
- [The end of life in Dutch nursing homes] 29 Nov 2008
- Depression in women with metastatic breast cancer: a review of the literature. 29 Nov 2008
- Barriers to hospice enrollment among lung cancer patients: a survey of family members and physicians. 29 Nov 2008
- How do-not-resuscitate orders are utilized in cancer patients: timing relative to death and communication-training implications. 29 Nov 2008
- Hospitalization pattern in a hospital-based palliative care program: an example from Saudi Arabia. 20 Oct 2008
- Predicting impending death: inconsistency in speed is a selective and early marker. 30 Aug 2008
- Shared priorities for the end-of-life period. 20 Aug 2008
- Too quietly into the night. 3 Aug 2008
- Looking beyond where children die: determinants and effects of planning a child's location of death. 4 Jun 2008
- Age and gender differences in medicare expenditures and service utilization at the end of life for lung cancer decedents. 29 Apr 2008
- Socioeconomic differences in service use, payment and receipt of illness-related benefits in the last year of life: findings from the British Household Panel Survey. 30 Mar 2008
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Technical information about 'Terminally Ill'
Definition: Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon: Dictionary of Health Care Terms, Organizations, and Acronyms for the Era of Reform, 1994, p780)
Descriptor UI: D019452
Alternative terms: Terminally Ill; Ill, Terminally;
Allowable Qualifiers: classification; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data;
Tree Number: M01.873;
History Note: 97
Technical Notes: the terminal patient himself; care of the terminal patient = TERMINAL CARE