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Mashup Score: 3Anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in hospital staff: systematic review plus meta-analysis - 12 month(s) ago
Background This study was conducted to systematically review the existing literature examining the prevalence of anxiety among hospital staff and identifying the contributing factors to address the complications of this disorder and develop effective programmes for reducing the complications of this mental health problem. Methods We searched the electronic databases including PubMed, EMBASE,…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Latest Headlines, Palliative MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Patient awareness of palliative care: systematic review - 12 month(s) ago
Background One of the barriers to the integration of palliative care within the process of patient care and treatment is the lack of awareness of patients about palliative care. In order to develop efficient resources to improve patient awareness, comprehensive information is required to determine the specific aspects of palliative care where a paucity of evidence on patient awareness exists….
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Latest Headlines, Palliative MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 1Paediatric advance care planning in life-limiting conditions: scoping review of parent experiences - 12 month(s) ago
Background Advance care planning is considered best practice for children and young people with life-limiting conditions but there is limited evidence how parents’ perceive, understand and engage with the process. Aim To understand parents’ experience of advance care planning for a child or young person with a life-limiting condition. Design Scoping review, theoretically informed by Family…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Latest Headlines, Palliative MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Medical cannabis is effective for cancer-related pain: Quebec Cannabis Registry results - 1 year(s) ago
Objectives To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis (MC) in reducing pain and concurrent medications in patients with cancer. Methods This study analysed data collected from patients with cancer who were part of the Quebec Cannabis Registry. Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS-r) questionnaires, total medication burden (TMB) and…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Latest Headlines, Palliative MedicineTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Medical cannabis is effective for cancer-related pain: Quebec Cannabis Registry results - 1 year(s) ago
Objectives To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of medical cannabis (MC) in reducing pain and concurrent medications in patients with cancer. Methods This study analysed data collected from patients with cancer who were part of the Quebec Cannabis Registry. Brief Pain Inventory (BPI), revised Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS-r) questionnaires, total medication burden (TMB) and…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: General Medicine Journals and Societies, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 5
When patients become seriously ill, clinicians must engage in difficult conversations to ensure that the care provided aligns with patient expectations, goals and values. In these situations, clinicians tend to focus on medical facts, present treatment options like choices on a restaurant menu, give detailed explanations for each option and request that patients or surrogates choose among them by…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0
When patients become seriously ill, clinicians must engage in difficult conversations to ensure that the care provided aligns with patient expectations, goals and values. In these situations, clinicians tend to focus on medical facts, present treatment options like choices on a restaurant menu, give detailed explanations for each option and request that patients or surrogates choose among them by…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Medical oncologists and supportive/palliative care education: prevention of fragmented care’ - 1 year(s) ago
To the editor, The integration between oncology and palliative care is a pivotal issue of oncological practice. Among the various integration models proposed, one of the best known, widely cited in the literature, is the one developed by Hui and Bruera.1 Bruera represents the most effective model as a cube in whose surface the team dedicated to oncological therapies and the one dedicated to the…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Cardiologists, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 0Medical oncologists and supportive/palliative care education: prevention of fragmented care’ - 1 year(s) ago
To the editor, The integration between oncology and palliative care is a pivotal issue of oncological practice. Among the various integration models proposed, one of the best known, widely cited in the literature, is the one developed by Hui and Bruera.1 Bruera represents the most effective model as a cube in whose surface the team dedicated to oncological therapies and the one dedicated to the…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Hem/Oncs, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2
Objectives There have been many models of providing oncology and palliative care to hospitals. Many patients will use the hospital non-electively or semielectively, and a large proportion are likely to be in the last years of life. We describe our multidisciplinary service to treatable but not curable cancer patients at University Hospitals Sussex. The team was a mixture of clinical nurse…
Source: BMJ Supportive & Palliative CareCategories: Latest Headlines, Oncologists2Tweet
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