Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2021
Stress and Perception of Procedural Pain Management in Chinese Parents of Children with Cancer.
Children with cancer are exposed to repeated painful and invasive procedures. This study examines Chinese parents' stress and perception toward their children's procedural pain control. ⋯ Our findings suggested that subgroups of Chinese parents demonstrated distress with their child's pain and harbored misconceptions over analgesics use. Future work includes devising targeted psychoeducation interventions for these parents.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2021
Trends in Place of Death for Individuals with Deaths Attributed to Advanced Chronic or End-Stage Kidney Disease in the United States.
An important aspect of end-of-life care, place of death is understudied in advanced chronic (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). ⋯ Hospitals remain the most common place of death from advanced CKD/ESKD; however, the proportion of home, nursing facility, and hospice facility deaths have increased.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jan 2021
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyThe effect of disclosing life expectancy information on patients' prognostic understanding: secondary outcomes from a multicenter randomized trial of a palliative chemotherapy educational intervention.
Many advanced patients with cancer have unrealistic prognostic expectations. ⋯ Offering LE information within a PC educational intervention had no effect on patients' prognostic expectations.