Sökning: "palliative care communication"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 27 avhandlingar innehållade orden palliative care communication.
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. Existential Issues in Palliative Care
Sammanfattning : The main purpose of this dissertation is to describe how terminally ill patients experienced their situation, and what their views about the future were. Further, the experiences and attitudes of relatives of such patients, and of health care professionals, were also central. LÄS MER
3. COMPETENCE AND COMMUNICATION : Do Not Resuscitate Decisions in Cancer Care
Sammanfattning : Within cancer care, do not resuscitate (DNR) decisions are frequently made. DNR decisions can be ethically difficult and lead to conflicts of interest and disagreements within the medical team. LÄS MER
4. Specialized palliative home care teams : Complementary perspectives of team functions and influences on patients and families
Sammanfattning : Persons with life-threatening illness are increasingly being cared for and dying at home. Palliative care strives to cater to multiple dimensions such as physical, psychosocial and spiritual or existential, and meeting these needs in patients and families requires multiple competencies. LÄS MER
5. Bereaved family members’ VOICES of support and care during the last three months of life for people with advanced illness
Sammanfattning : This thesis is in the subject of palliative care within the research field ‘The individual in the Welfare society’. The overall aim was to investigate bereaved family members’ experiences of support and care during the last three months of life for people with advanced illness. LÄS MER