Articles: palliative-care.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2022
A race-conscious approach toward research on racial inequities in palliative care.
Racial inequities in palliative and end-of-life care have been well-documented for many years. This inequity is long-standing and resistant to many intervention efforts. ⋯ Public Health Critical Race Praxis (PHCRP) offers researchers new routes of inquiry to broaden the scope of research priorities in palliative care and improving racial outcomes through a novel conceptual framework and methodology. PHCRP, based off critical race theory (CRT), contains 10 principles within four foci to guide researchers toward a more race conscious approach for the generation of research questions, research processes, and development of interventions targeting racial inequities.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · May 2022
Home-based Palliative Care Team Perspectives on Challenges in Patient Referral and Enrollment.
As funding for home-based palliative care continues to expand, there is an increasing need to understand barriers to patient referral to and acceptance of home-based palliative care. ⋯ HBPC providers identified a myriad of barriers that preclude patient access to HBPC. With growing provision of HBPC services, greater efforts to overcome these barriers are needed.
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Therapeutic presence is one of the fundamental skills that palliative care providers have to offer. The COVID-19 pandemic has created many barriers to connection that impact the way providers practice. This narrative piece about a remote cross-country palliative care encounter offers reflections on creating therapeutic presence amidst the current pandemic.
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This series will focus on addressing the intersection of race and racism in palliative care through a series of roundtable discussions with interdisciplinary clinicians, researchers, educators, and leaders in palliative care. These short discussions are intended to stimulate readers to examine issues of race and racism within the field of hospice and palliative care - in the various forms that it appears - as well as serve as a continual call to action to facilitate and promote equity.
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Palliative medicine · May 2022
Engagement of specialized palliative care services with the general public: A population-level survey in three European countries.
There is growing recognition of a need for community capacity development around serious illness, dying and loss, complementary to strategies focussing on health services. Hitherto, little is known about how and to what extent palliative care services in different countries are adopting these ideas in their practices. ⋯ An expansion of the mandate of specialized palliative care services beyond a traditional clinically-oriented focus towards one inclusive of community capacity building around serious illness, dying and loss is occurring in different countries, albeit to different degrees and with different intensities.