Pain General
Jun 29, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to give the previously identified quality measures (QMs) a higher priority among parents who had lost a child to cancer. They used a discrete choice experiment with max...
Jun 29, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to assess the prevalence of ACP and PC among adult KT candidates and recipients based on age and race. Through chart review, they analyzed the presence of ACP and PC in...
Jun 29, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to determine if a collaborative palliative care intervention improved the quality of life in outpatients with HF, COPD, or ILD when compared to standard treatment. With...
Jun 29, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to learn how hospital cultures affect the intensity of end-of-life (EOL) care. Four university hospitals in California and Washington participated in comparative ethnog...
Jun 29, 2022
In a large population-based study, researchers sought to investigate the characteristics associated with unmet support service needs among rural carers. They analyzed data from the Behavioral Risk Fac...
Jun 29, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to investigate the availability of Palliative care (PC) services in nursing home (NHs) with differing populations of Black and Hispanic citizens (aged 65+). A nationall...
Jun 28, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to identify potential lessons for the United States; they investigated the impact of family structure on the intensity of EoL experiences in Denmark, a country context ...
Jun 27, 2022
Palliative care (PC) is being used by more patients early in their illness progression. The Barretos Prognostic Nomogram (BPN) was created to bridge the gap between survival prognosis and months of li...
Jun 27, 2022
Although the association of Medicare Advantage (MA) with low-value care among hospitalized patients was unknown, it is caring for a growing share of traditional Medicare (TM) patients. For a study, re...
Jun 27, 2022
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICI) are acclaimed for producing long-lasting anti-tumor responses, but they also generate immune-related adverse events (irAEs), which can range in severity and have an ...
Jun 27, 2022
Patients can improve the quality of their dying by preparing for the end of life and their impending death. For a study, researchers sought to determine the never-before-seen relationships between can...
Jun 27, 2022
Opioid misuse and opioid-related consequences, including fatalities, are extensively established in the United States. Opioid consumption, particularly fentanyl, has been growing throughout the Europe...
Jun 27, 2022
During the early COVID-19 epidemic, many hospice patients were physically segregated from family members and healthcare staff. Researchers sought to evaluate the lived experience of physical separatio...
Jun 16, 2022
Despite advances in antiretroviral treatment, people living with HIV infection (PLWH) in the United States continue to have a high symptom load. For a study, researchers sought to determine if the qua...
Jun 16, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to determine the link between palliative care (PC), patient-reported variables (quality of life and functional status), and outcomes. They conducted a prospective cohor...
May 31, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to enhance the conceptual and practical definitions of the term "self-management of cancer pain" in the concept analysis article by identifying associated antecedents, ...
May 31, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to see if intravenous patient-controlled analgesia (IVPCA) in a fast-track joint replacement program was linked to more perioperative opioid intake and a longer stay in...
May 31, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to determine how the presence of a parent affected the level of a child's suffering during invasive treatments. The systematic review began in July 2019 and was updated...
May 31, 2022
For a study, researchers sought to look into the perceptions and experiences of emergency department (ED) patients about pain and emergency care to help build future psychosocial interventions that ba...
May 31, 2022
Post-operative discomfort was one of the most serious issues faced by patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. For a study, researchers sought to determine how post-operative pain interfere...