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Mashup Score: 3Public Attitudes Toward End-of-Life Decision-Making for Neonates - 2 month(s) ago
This cross-sectional study examines the societal perspective on euthanasia and withdrawal of life-prolonging treatment for sick and extremely preterm newborns in Germany.
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Mashup Score: 3Preventing Future Harm: Identifying the Drivers of an Unsafe Discharge to Improve Safety on an Inpatient Oncology Service - 8 month(s) ago
Cancer Morbidity, Mortality, and Improvement Rounds is a series of articles intended to explore the unique safety risks experienced by oncology patients through the lens of quality improvement, systems and human factors engineering, and cognitive psychology. For purposes of clarity, each case focuses on a single theme, although, as is true for all medical incidents, there are almost always multiple, overlapping, contributing factors. The quality improvement paradigm used here, which focuses on root cause analyses and opportunities to improve care delivery systems, was previously outlined in this journal. This article describes the care of a young patient with aggressive breast cancer, declining performance status, and multiple hospital admissions who died shortly after being discharged home without essential medications or an adequate plan for follow-up. The patient’s death due to her malignancy was unavoidable, but she had inadequate resources before her death, leading to avoidable su
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Mashup Score: 2A Culture of Rescue: How Avoiding Distress in Prognostic Communication Shapes Caregiver Expectations | Cancer Nursing Today - 9 month(s) ago
Patients and caregivers hold optimistic expectations until late stages, highlighting the need for ongoing conversations.
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Mashup Score: 5GC-MS Techniques Investigating Potential Biomarkers of Dying in the Last Weeks with Lung Cancer - 1 year(s) ago
Predicting when a patient with advanced cancer is dying is a challenge and currently no prognostic test is available. We hypothesised that a dying process from cancer is associated with metabolic changes and specifically with changes in volatile organic compounds (VOCs). We analysed urine from patients with lung cancer in the last weeks of life by headspace gas chromatography mass spectrometry….
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Mashup Score: 1Aggressive End-of-Life Care Among Older Adults With Metastatic Cancer in Nursing Home and Community Settings - 1 year(s) ago
This cohort study uses data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results database to compare markers of aggressive end-of-life care between older adults with metastatic cancer who are nursing home residents and their community-dwelling counterparts.
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Mashup Score: 1Nurse Perspectives on Difficult Conversations: How Do I Tell My Kids That I Am Dying? - 1 year(s) ago
Anna Skwira-Brown, APRN, AOCNP, highlights the value of taking a moment to pause before embarking on a serious conversation with a patient during end-of-life care.
Source: Oncology Nursing NewsCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 2Wolters Kluwer Health - 1 year(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 2
Medicare decedents with cancer often receive intensive care during the last month of life; however, little information exists on longer end-of-life care trajectories.
Source: Journal of Geriatric OncologyCategories: Hem/Onc News and Journals, Latest HeadlinesTweet
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Mashup Score: 6Effect of Machine Learning–Triggered Nudges on Serious Illness Conversations With Patients With Cancer - 1 year(s) ago
This randomized clinical trial assesses the impact of behavioral nudges to clinicians on the rate of serious illness conversations and end-of-life outcomes among patients at high risk of death.
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Mashup Score: 0Rethinking End-of-Life Planning With The Digital Twin - 1 year(s) ago
How technology can help humanity in a difficult situation.
Source: MediumCategories: Future of Medicine, Latest HeadlinesTweet
Study suggests clinicians need to exert additional efforts to explain the legal & ethical framework of #EndOfLife decisions when counseling parents of periviable infants and that the large variability in attitudes warrants a highly individualized approach. https://t.co/4nY6TkrPBj