Category Archive for: "palliative care"

Integrating Spiritual Care into Palliative Consultation: A Case Study in Expanded Practice

October 17, 2017 palliative care, spiritual care

Recognizing and addressing spiritual needs has long been identified as a key component of palliative care (PC). More often than not, the provision of spiritual care involves referral to a [...]
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Evaluation of a chaplain residency program and its partnership with an in-patient palliative care team

October 17, 2017 education, palliative care

In 2009 a Consensus Conference of experts in the field of spiritual care and palliative care recommended the inclusion of Board-certified professional chaplains with at least 1,600 hours of [...]
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Religious coping and use of intensive life-prolonging care near death in patients with advanced cancer

October 17, 2017 palliative care

CONTEXT: Patients frequently rely on religious faith to cope with cancer, but little is known about the associations between religiouscoping and the use of intensive life-prolonging care at the [...]
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Preparing for the end of life: preferences of patients, families, physicians, and other care providers

October 13, 2017 palliative care

To examine patients’, families’, and health care providers’ preferences regarding preparation for the end of life, attributes of preparation were generated in qualitative focus [...]
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Initial assessment of a new instrument to measure quality of life at the end of life

October 13, 2017 palliative care

PURPOSE: We conducted this study to pilot a new multidimensional instrument to assess the quality of life at the end of life. METHODS: Items were derived from focus groups and a national survey [...]
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