Management of hiccups in palliative care patients
Treatment algorithm for persistent and intractable hiccups in palliative care patients. PPI, proton pump inhibitor. If intractable hiccups are caused by a central type of condition, baclofen (level II) is recommended as first-line treatment. It is the only drug that …
Anticipatory prescribing in community end-of-life care: systematic ...
Background The anticipatory prescribing of injectable medications is recommended practice in controlling distressing symptoms in the last days of life. A 2017 systematic review found practice and guidance was based on inadequate evidence. Since then, there has been considerable additional research, warranting a new review. Aim To review the evidence published since 2017 concerning anticipatory ...
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4 days ago · BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care is a Plan S compliant Transformative Journal.. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care holds an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care research and we are able to call on expertise to critique the whole range of methodologies within the subject, including those working in transitional research, clinical trials, epidemiology, behavioural sciences, ethics and ...
Impact of dementia on informal care: a systematic review of family ...
Introduction Caregivers play a major role in providing all the support and care in daily activities for their relatives with dementia. To fully describe the influence of dementia caregiving on family caregivers’ life, we conducted a systematic review including caregivers’ perceptions about the positive and negative aspects of caring and the expressed factors. Materials and methods We ...
Ethical dilemmas for palliative care nurses: systematic review
Mar 27, 2024 · Background Nurses play a unique and critical role in palliative care, and it is noteworthy that nurses often encounter ethical dilemmas in this field. Objective This review aims to conduct a summarised synthesis of the latest research on the ethical considerations nurses faced in palliative care. Methods We conducted a rigorous systematic review of relevant existing studies published in high ...
Timely community palliative and end-of-life care: a realist synthesis
Background Community-based and home-based palliative and end-of-life care (PEoLC) services, often underpinned by primary care provision, are becoming increasingly popular. One of the key challenges associated with them is their timely initiation. The latter requires an accurate enough prediction of how close to death a patient is. Methods Using ‘realist synthesis’ tools, this …
Palliative care in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease: looking back, thinking ...
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. However, it is difficult to diagnose and is unique in that it is both a genetic and transmissible disease. The disease is characterised by symptoms of a rapidly progressive dementia. Palliation is the only treatment and early diagnosis is an important aspect in relation to gaining speedy ...
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Published quarterly in print and continuously online, BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care aims to connect many disciplines and specialties throughout the world by providing high quality, clinically relevant research, reviews, comment, information and news of international importance. We hold an inclusive view of supportive and palliative care ...
Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool prognostic value in ...
May 31, 2021 · Background An increasing number of older patients are hospitalised. Prognostic uncertainty causes hospital doctors to be reluctant to make the switch from cure to care. The Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool (SPICT) has not been validated for prognostication in an older hospitalised population. Aim To validate SPICT as a prognostic tool for risk of dying within one year in older ...
Frailty and palliative care | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Frailty is a syndrome evident when a threshold number of regulatory systems required to maintain human body homoeostasis are compromised by intercurrent and chronic diseases and physiological ageing. As a result, someone with frailty becomes vulnerable to adverse outcomes when exposed to stressors like an acute illness or treatment(s).1 2 Frailty can also have significant personal impact ...