Articles: palliative-care.
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Islam is the fastest-growing religion across the world and in the United States. Adherents of Islam are known as Muslims. ⋯ This article outlines 10 basic principles held by many Muslim patients and their families that can allow for palliative care to be delivered in a culturally inclusive way. This article should serve as a point of initiation for further exploration of their needs as it is not a comprehensive guide.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2022
Observational StudyIntelligent Palliative Care Based on Patient-Reported Outcome Measures.
The growth of patient reported outcome measures data in palliative care provides an opportunity for machine learning to identify patterns in patient responses signifying different phases of illness. ⋯ These preliminary results, when coupled with the latest technological developments in mobile apps and wearable technology, could point the way to increased use of digital therapeutics in continuous palliative care monitoring.
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COPD is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States and is a serious respiratory illness characterized by years of progressively debilitating breathlessness, high prevalence of associated depression and anxiety, frequent hospitalizations, and diminished well-being. Despite the potential to confer significant quality-of-life benefits for patients and their care partners and to improve end-of-life (EOL) care, specialist palliative care is rarely implemented in COPD, and when initiated, it often occurs only at the very EOL. ⋯ This review solidifies that palliative care is much more than hospice and EOL care and demonstrates that early palliative care is appropriate at any point during the COPD trajectory. We emphasize that palliative care should be integrated long before the EOL to provide comprehensive support for patients and their care partners and to prepare them better for the EOL.