Nov 09, 2022

An intriguing strategy for symptom management in hospice and palliative care is subcutaneous medication injection. However, the majority of medications are taken off-label since they lack marketing ap...

Nov 08, 2022

With regard to the usefulness of Life Review Intervention (LRI) in enhancing cancer patients' psychological well-being, the emphasis has begun to shift. For a study, researchers sought to provide the ...

Nov 08, 2022

Palliative care units (PCUs) were proven to reduce hospital mortality costs, which are a considerable burden on the healthcare system. For a study, researchers sought t compare the PCU's costs with th...

Nov 08, 2022

A growing number of newborns with a chronic critical illness (CCI) make it out of the neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Little was known about the level of care provided to the families upon disc...

Nov 07, 2022

Although widespread, psycho-existential symptoms were frequently overlooked or ignored in palliative care. Finding and meeting the need could be accomplished through screening. For a study, researcher...

Oct 26, 2022

Disparities in racial pain make managing cancer symptoms difficult. Due to music's multicultural presence, music therapy has been shown to be effective in treating pain and is a promising therapeutic ...

Oct 26, 2022

Numerous obstacles prevent patients with housing instability from utilizing medical services. For a study, researchers sought to ascertain if patients with heart failure who get care at United States ...

Oct 26, 2022

Specialized palliative care (SPC) may be beneficial for children and adults with advanced cardiac or respiratory disease, but there hasn't been much SPC research in this field. For a study, researcher...

Oct 21, 2022

End-of-life (EOL) care is a significant consumer of healthcare resources, particularly for elderly cancer patients. The EOL treatment of these individuals is made more difficult by their diagnosis of ...

Oct 21, 2022

Individual perceptions of the desired judgments and behaviors that direct our attitudes and behavior are known as personal values. Advance care planning (ACP) currently places a strong focus on taking...

Oct 10, 2022

Understanding and expressing choices for future medical treatment is the process of advance care planning. For a study, researchers sought to investigate the consistency of end-of-life treatment prefe...

Oct 10, 2022

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) may be used to treat COVID-19 patients with severe respiratory failure who are resistant to traditional therapy. Requiring ECMO was linked to increased morta...

Oct 07, 2022

Noninvasive brain stimulations (NIBS) is being used more frequently on patients with neuropathic pain (NP), but there was debate over how well they work to treat the condition. For a study, researcher...

Oct 06, 2022

It was hypothesized that inflammation affects the tumor response to radiotherapy (RT). To comprehend the varying RT efficacy in patients with painful bone metastases, clinical investigations to examin...

Oct 06, 2022

It has been demonstrated that pediatric palliative home-based care enhances the quality of life, symptom management, and care coordination. Despite these achievements, hospitalization rates in the hom...

Oct 06, 2022

Healthcare systems should consider patient experiences while establishing care procedures to raise the standard of end-of-life care. Families and caregivers of recently deceased in-patients may be in ...

Oct 06, 2022

Variability in care intensity have been brought to light by the COVID-19 epidemic. For a study, researchers sought to describe the level of care given to COVID-19 individuals who were hospitalized. Ex...

Oct 06, 2022

The use of palliative care (PC) in developing environments is hampered by a lack of understanding of the practice. In a multi-site quality improvement initiative in India, it was important to recogniz...

Oct 06, 2022

There was little proof that severe COVID results in symptom management. Therefore, for a study, researchers sought to identify changes in symptoms, relationships to therapies, and survival rates among...

Oct 06, 2022

To supplement a clinician's prediction of survival (CPS), several prognostic models, including the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS), Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI), and Palliative Prognostic Scor...