Sökning: "palliative care and nausea"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden palliative care and nausea.
1. 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
2. Vård i livets slutskede på särskilt boende för äldre personer : närstående och vårdpersonals skattade och berättade erfarenheter
Sammanfattning : Bakgrund I Europa, blir det allt vanligare att äldre personer dör på särskilt boende i stället för på sjukhus. Särskilda boenden spelar därför en viktig roll när det gäller vård i livets slutskede. Målet med palliativ vård för personer med livshotande sjukdom och deras närstående är att öka livskvaliteten och lindra lidande. LÄS MER
3. Att leva med kroppsliga förändringar vid obotlig cancersjukdom med fokus på prostatacancer : ”jag är frisk – bortsett från att jag har cancer som är dödlig, men det är liksom en annan sak”
Sammanfattning : The overall aim of this thesis is to illuminate and describe bodily changes and problems in incurable cancer, with focus on prostate cancer, from the patient’s perspective. The thesis consists of four papers, each of which illuminates various aspects of the phenomenon studied. LÄS MER
4. The Impact of Advanced Home Care on Health-related Quality of Life. Reports in the end of life from palliative care patients with cancer
Sammanfattning : Aim of study - The aim of the present work was to compare patients with advancedcancer receiving specialized palliative home care with those receiving conventional carewith regard to time spent at home and place of death (Paper I), factors associated with thepatients’ choice of palliative care (Paper II), and to describe the health-related quality oflife (HRQL) and the occurrence and changes in symptoms over the last three months ofthe patients’ lives (Paper III). In addition, sociodemographic and clinical differencesbetween participants and dropouts were explored in order to establish whether themissing data could be regarded as missing at random (Paper IV). LÄS MER
5. Nutritional support among cancer patients enrolled in palliative home care services
Sammanfattning : Nutritional problems are common in palliative cancer care. Little is known about nutritional problems and nutritional support in home care. LÄS MER