[PDF] Top 20 Symptomatic Control in End-of-Life Patients

... start of treatment with palliative sedation should be anticipated in the course of the disease, and professionals must follow this protocol: (a) evaluate the patient, seeking reversible or treatable ... See full document

... process of end-of-life care delivery to the families of elderly patients according to a Family Health Strategy (FHS) team, to identify the meanings the team attributes to the ... See full document

... total of 6,858 deaths were recorded. To include only patients who could have received EoL care, deaths registered as sudden and totally unexpected (n = 2243), or for which this information was missing (n = ... See full document

... quality of life are closely interrelated, and that diabetes is causally related to depression and vice ...complications of diabetes rather than comorbidities is of interest. In either ... See full document

... sample of 144 patients was recruited from three General Hospitals in the broader area of Athens, consisting of 84 patients ...undergoing in-centre haemodialysis (HD) and ... See full document

... safety of carbohydrate counting (CHOC) in the treatment of adult patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus ...review of randomized studies that compared CHOC with general dietary advice ... See full document

... number of studies have reported on the success of ethnographic techniques to address the complexities and challenges in the lives of individuals who face chronic illness, disability and death ... See full document

... quality of life (QoL) and search for possible associations in patients with end-stage renal disease undergoing ...study of 104 adult patients with end-stage renal ... See full document

... Standards of Joint Commission International (JCI) emphasize on the organizational performance level in basic functional domains including patient right, patient care, medical safety and infection ... See full document

... out in 1999 resul- ted in a cross-sectional descriptive study of a po- pulation in northeastern Brazil, and these patients’ demographic and clinic characteristics are presen- ted ... See full document

... limitations of our study, it is important to highlight the absence of a strict nutritional control among the study ...quality of life and consequently the life expectancy ... See full document

... tumors of the uterus primarily affecting the reproductive age group presenting with symptoms like menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain and pressure symptoms and frequently ...management of ... See full document

... effects of collaborative care model (CCM) on patients with CHF. A total of 114 CHF patients were enrolled in this study, and were randomly and equally divided into two groups: ... See full document

... characteristics of patients were computed, such as: age, gender, length of hospital stay, admission and length of stay in the ICU, prima- ry diagnosis, month, hour and place of ... See full document

... majority of patients died in the OR in a period between the first two and twenty-four hours, which is similar to other studies (18– ...agonising patients manifesting pain/discomfort ... See full document

... studies of neuroscience report that, in order to develop the process of acquiring the necessary competences for decision making that begins in childhood and improves with age, the child or ... See full document

... one of the leading causes of mortality in the world, imposes a substantial economic bur- den on each society, including ...aim of this study was to evaluate the major cancer cost drivers ... See full document

... stages of chronic kidney disease. Hypertension is present in >80% of patients with CKD, is usually re- lated to hypervolemia, and is occasionally the result of activation of ... See full document

... result of the present study was that the maintenance of teeth had a positive impact on the psychological and en- vironmental ...importance of preventive measures in order to prevent teeth loss ... See full document

... predictor in ESRD (3). In addition, the six-minute walk test (6MWT) has proved to be an excellent tool for functional capacity evaluation and has been widely used in patients with chronic ... See full document