Palliative medicine
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Palliative medicine · Dec 2018
A qualitative exploration of patient and healthcare professionals' views and experiences of palliative rehabilitation during advanced lung cancer treatment.
Limited evidence exists on the impact of palliative rehabilitation during systemic treatment of advanced cancer. ⋯ Patients described personal benefits associated with setting their own goals for physical activity and dietary intake. Healthcare professionals who initially expressed a negative or indifferent stance towards palliative rehabilitation, displayed a mind-set change and were keen to explore further opportunities to expand the evidence base.
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Palliative medicine · Dec 2018
Communicating end-of-life care goals and decision-making among a multidisciplinary geriatric inpatient rehabilitation team: A qualitative descriptive study.
In geriatric inpatient rehabilitation settings, where the goal is to optimise function, providing end-of-life care can be challenging. ⋯ Clinicians reported difficulties recognising patient deterioration towards death. Uncertainty and inconsistent communication among clinicians about patient deterioration negatively impacted team understanding, decision-making, and patient and family communication. Further education for all members of the multidisciplinary team focusing on how to recognise and communicate impending death will aid multidisciplinary teams to provide quality end-of-life care when required.
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Since the latter part of the twentith century, international research, education and practice of advance care planning has experienced a diversity of developments and defintions. Whilst this variety may seem bewildering, a continued commitment to accurate, focussed research enables better care through better understanding and better evidence.