 Subjects -> OCCUPATIONS AND CAREERS (Total: 33 journals)
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- A prognostic model using the neutrophil-albumin ratio and PG-SGA to
predict overall survival in advanced palliative lung cancer
Authors: Changyan Feng; Huiqing Yu, Haike Lei, Haoyang Cao, Mengting Chen Shihong Liu
Abstract: Inflammation and malnutrition are common in patients with advanced lung cancer undergoing palliative care, and their survival time is limited. In this study, we created a prognostic model using the Inflam-Nutr...
PubDate: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Compassion in healthcare: an updated scoping review of the literature
Authors: Sydney Malenfant; Priya Jaggi, K. Alix Hayden Shane Sinclair
Abstract: A previous review on compassion in healthcare (1988-2014) identified several empirical studies and their limitations. Given the large influx and the disparate nature of the topic within the healthcare literatu...
PubDate: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Eleven-year retrospective study characterizing patients with severe brain
damage and poor neurological prognosis -role of physicians’ attitude
toward life-sustaining treatment
Authors: Haruaki Wakatake; Koichi Hayashi, Yuka Kitano, Hsiang-Chin Hsu, Toru Yoshida, Yoshihiro Masui, Yasuhiko Taira Shigeki Fujitani
Abstract: Severe brain hemorrhage/infarction and cardiac arrest constitute the most critical situations leading to poor neurological prognosis. Characterization of these patients is required to offer successful end-of-l...
PubDate: 2022-05-18T00:00:00Z
- Guidance for family about comfort care in dementia: a comparison of an
educational booklet adopted in six jurisdictions over a 15 year timespan
Authors: Laura Bavelaar; Adrienne McCann, Nicola Cornally, Irene Hartigan, Sharon Kaasalainen, Hana Vankova, Paola Di Giulio, Ladislav Volicer, Marcel Arcand, Jenny T. van der Steen Kevin Brazil
Abstract: To support family caregivers of people with dementia in end-of-life decision making, a family booklet on comfort care has been adapted and adopted by several European jurisdictions since the original publicat...
PubDate: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
- “I want to get myself as fit as I can and not die just yet” –
Perceptions of exercise in people with advanced cancer and cachexia: a
qualitative study
Authors: Kelcey A. Bland; Meinir Krishnasamy, Evelyn B. Parr, Stella Mulder, Peter Martin, Luc J. C. van Loon, Prue Cormie, Natasha Michael Eva M. Zopf
Abstract: Cachexia is a prevalent muscle wasting syndrome among people with advanced cancer that profoundly impacts patient quality of life (QoL) and physical function. Exercise can improve QoL, physical function, and o...
PubDate: 2022-05-17T00:00:00Z
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