Terminally Ill
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial.

17 Aug 2009 CONTEXT: There are few randomized controlled trials on the effectiveness of palliative care interventions to improve the care of patients with advanced cancer. OBJECTIVE: To determine the effect of a nursing-led intervention on quality of life, ... Read more...

Utilization of acute and long-term care in the last year of life: comparison with survivors in a population-based study.

3 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: It is well-known that the use of care services is most intensive in the last phase of life. However, so far only a few determinants of end-of-life care utilization are known. The aims of this study were to describe the utilization of ... Read more...

Hope, life, and death: a qualitative analysis of dying cancer patients' talk about hope.

30 Jul 2009 Although deemed vital to patient well-being, hope in persons who are terminally ill is often thought to be problematic, particularly when centered on cure. As part of a study on end-of-life decision-making, we asked 28 patients with cancer, believed ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Terminally Ill'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A piece of my mind. A gift of time. 26 Oct 2009
• [Treatment of incurable ill patients at intensive care units] 17 Oct 2009
• Large amelanotic melanoma and vitiligo. 29 Sep 2009
• Assisted dying debate. A baroness replies. 12 Sep 2009
• Assisted dying debate. Doctors' attitudes surveyed. 12 Sep 2009
• Assisted dying: what's disability got to do with it? 24 Aug 2009
• Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial. 17 Aug 2009
• Utilization of acute and long-term care in the last year of life: comparison with survivors in a population-based study. 3 Aug 2009
• Assisted suicide. Clinicians need clarification. 2 Aug 2009
• Dying together. Aug 2009
• Methylnaltrexone: new drug. Opiate-induced constipation: barely more effective than placebo. 30 Jul 2009
• Hope, life, and death: a qualitative analysis of dying cancer patients' talk about hope. 30 Jul 2009
• Exploring preferences for place of death with terminally ill patients: qualitative study of experiences of general practitioners and community nurses in England. 13 Jul 2009
• Serotonin transporter 5-HTTLPR polymorphism and response to citalopram in terminally ill cancer patients: report of twenty-one cases. 29 Jun 2009
• JPM patient information. Seizures at the end of life. 29 Jun 2009
• Suffering and healing--our core business. 29 Jun 2009
• Going to meet death: the art of dying in the early part of the twenty-first century. 29 Jun 2009
• Rewriting the end. 29 Jun 2009
• Until the last breath: exploring the concept of hope for parents and health care professionals during a child's serious illness. 29 Jun 2009
• A new era of for-profit hospice care--the Medicare benefit. 23 Jun 2009

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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