Sökning: "End of life care"
Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 205 avhandlingar innehållade orden End of life care.
16. Quality improvement in palliative care : the role of a national quality register and perceptions of information during palliative chemotherapy
Sammanfattning : IntroductionThere is a need in palliative care for development of structured methods to assess quality and support improvement. This need is present both within and outside specialised palliative care.Honest information from physicians is regarded as an important part of palliative care. LÄS MER
17. Balancing - Cancer from a primary care perspective. Diagnosis, posttraumatic stress, and end-of-life care
Sammanfattning : This thesis explores cancer from a primary care perspective covering three areas: diagnosis, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and end-of-life care. We analyzed patient records of every child diagnosed with a malignancy in a defined area. During 12 years 68 children were diagnosed (incidence 14/100,000). LÄS MER
18. Dignity in the end of life care : what does it mean to older people and staff in nursing homes?
Sammanfattning : The discussion of a palliative care and a dignified death has almost exclusively been applied to people dying of cancer. As people are getting older and are living longer, nursing homes have become an important place for end-of-life care and death. Dignity is a concept often used in health care documents but their meaning is rarely clarified. LÄS MER
19. Breakpoint communication about transition to end-of-life care : context, content and consequences
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20. Aspects of decisions to withhold and withdraw life-sustaining treatment in intensive care
Sammanfattning : End-of-life decision-making is required when the patient no longer benefits from available treatment options and there is a need to redirect medical treatment goals from cure to palliative care. End-of-life decisions are multifaceted and complicated processes for intensive care physicians. LÄS MER
