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| | Palliative care - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The patient and family are both the focus of palliative care, with emphasis placed upon the well-being of family caregivers as well as the patient. | | | Treatment that integrates complementary therapies with conventional cancer care is integrative oncology. | | | It is important to note that in the United States, while in hospice care, a Medicare patient gives up his or her claims to reimbursement for any treatment of the terminal condition, with the exception of what the hospice considers palliative treatment. |
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| | WHO Palliative care |
| | Palliative care improves the quality of life of patients and families who face life-threatening illness, by providing pain and symptom relief, spiritual and psychosocial support to from diagnosis to the end of life and bereavement. | | | Palliative care for children is the active total care of the child's body, mind and spirit, and also involves giving support to the family. | | | Effective approaches to palliative care are available to improve the quality of life for cancer patients. |
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http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/en
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| | Palliative Care - Wolper Jewish Hospital |
| | Specialist palliative care nurses are supported by a team of medical consultants trained to meet both the medical and personal requirements of patients and their families. | | | Wolper Jewish Hospital's long standing vision of a comprehensive health care facility has led to the development of a palliative care service - a new, distinctive discipline of medicine that not only caters for the medical and psychological needs of patients but also the concerns and anguish of their families. | | | The specialty of Palliative Care focuses on addressing and relieving the pain associated with incurable and progressive illnesses. |
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http://www.wolper.com.au/Services/Palliative_Care/palliative_care.html
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| | Palliative care |
| | Palliative care means continuing total care for a patient and his/her family when there is no longer a medical expectation of a cure. | | | Palliative care responds to physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs and extends to support in bereavement. | | | The Irish Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) is an all-Ireland body set up to promote education and research into palliative care and as a support organisation to those working in this field. |
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http://www.oasis.gov.ie/health/cancer_services/palliative_care.html
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| | Palliative Care |
| | Palliative care, also called comfort care, is primarily directed at providing relief to a terminally-ill person through symptom management and pain management. | | | When people enter a hospice or begin palliative care, their loved ones may begin to experience increased feelings of grief and bereavement. | | | Because medical needs vary depending on the disease that is leading toward death, specialized palliative care programs exist for common conditions such as cancer and AIDS. |
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http://www.growthhouse.org/palliat.html
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| | Mesothelioma Palliative Care |
| | Palliative care is a specialized form of care that alleviates pain and other symptoms. | | | During the course of a serious illness, patients and their families should realize that the goals of care can, and do, change, sometimes rapidly. | | | For the dying patient, it addresses the traditional roles of the hospice movement. |
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http://www.mesotheliomaweb.org/palliativecare.htm
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| | Palliative care |
| | Buckle (1997, p227) describes palliative care as "alleviating the effects of disease without curing" and refers to the holistic and caring approach needed to achieve this. | | | As treatment is palliative in nature, emotional needs are just as important as the physical needs which may are being looked after by conventional medication. | | | Much is based on early fears developed while aromatherapy training was beautician-based, with therapists having little knowledge about the pathology of disease and the effects of massage in 'spreading' cancerous cells. |
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http://www.aromacaring.co.uk/palliative_care.htm
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| | Palliative Care Service - Mayo-Roscommon Hospice, Ireland |
| | The goal of Palliative Care is to achieve the highest possible quality of life both for patient and family. | | | "the continuing active total care of patients and their families by a multi-professional team at a time when medical expectation is not a cure and the primary aim of treatment is no longer to prolong life. | | | Our specially trained Palliative Care Team works in co-operation with the Western Health Board's primary Health carers, family doctors, and public health nurses, caring for patients in their own homes. |
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http://www.hospice.ie/palative.htm
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| | Palliative Care |
| | It integrates the psychological and spiritual aspects of patient care. | | | End-of-life care issues, even the most seemingly difficult of issues, can be studied and addressed in an objective fashion.. | | | on palliative care clearly outlines the need for better care, education and research. |
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http://www.physiciansforlife.ca/pallcare.html
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| | Palliative Care |
| | Palliative Care Australia was formed in 1990 with the goal of working towards the relief of pain and suffering of dying people in Australia and the provision of the care they need. | | | Their aim is to promote better understanding of palliative care, to make it available to all those who need it, and to improve standards of care for patients and families. | | | It is aimed at both clinicians and researchers working in pain management, palliative care and hospice care, including oncologists, anaesthesiologists, neurologists, pharmacologists, nurses, therapists, psychologists and psychiatrists. |
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http://omni.ac.uk/browse/mesh/D010166.html
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| | Open Directory - Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Palliative Care |
| | Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care - US organization dedicated to improving healthcare for dying persons and their families through demonstration projects addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care. | | | Centre for Bioethics - Journal of Palliative Care - A Canadian-based, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary forum for practical, critical thought on palliative care and palliative medicine. | | | Stop Pain - Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain plus information on palliative care for those with long-term illness. |
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http://dmoz.org/Health/Medicine/Medical_Specialties/Palliative_Care
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| | Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies |
| | To provide prompt, interdisciplinary, and comprehensive palliative care consultation services that meet the needs of BIDMC patients and families who confront life-threatening or life-limiting illness, and that enhance the clinical excellence of physicians, nurses, and others who are responsible for their care. | | | Palliative care should reach patients throughout the hospital, should encourage collaboration across clinical and administrative boundaries, and should foster respect for patients' and families' wishes. | | | The second is to improve the quality of end-of-life care by developing integrated systems that identify patients who need help earlier in the acute care process; build and coordinate the religious and community resources needed for comprehensive outpatient and inpatient palliative care; and incorporate palliative care into the larger health care system. |
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http://www.milbank.org/pppc/0011pppc.html
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| | palliative care - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about palliative care |
| | Palliative care also involves consideration of any emotional, social, or family problems that the patient is experiencing. | | | Many patients prefer to receive palliative care in their own homes. | | | In medicine, care aimed at reducing the suffering of those patients with terminal illnesses (those from which there is no hope of recovery). |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/palliative+care
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| | Ketamine in Palliative Care |
| | It is because of the unique properties of ketamine that this drug has become of interest to palliative care physicians who are always on the lookout for drugs to assist patients with severe and sometimes difficult to control pain. | | | However research is still underway to clearly define where this drug fits into the drug therapy for palliative care patients. | | | Until we hear more it is appropriate to just be aware that this drug is being trialled in the palliative care setting. |
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http://www.medicineau.net.au/clinical/palliative/ketamine.html
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| | Palliative Care News |
| | The journal Pediatrics takes on the hard-to-take topic of end-of-life care for children in its March issue, with a study indicating that palliative care is sorely lacking. | | | The Marshfield Clinic hosted a palliative care conference for about 100 doctors and nurses from all over Wisconsin. | | | The death of a child is the worst thing that most parents can imagine, except maybe watching that child die in pain over a long period of time in your care. |
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http://www.topix.net/med/palliative-care
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| | Palliative Care Matters - pallcare.info |
| | But the Association of Palliative Medicine accuses the organisation of trying to suggest dignity in terminal illness can only be won by euthanasia. | | | Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) is to endorse the Gold Standard Framework (GSF) in Palliative Care, firmly embedding it into real life primary care. | | | Euthanasia is extremely rare in the UK and few doctors want to see it legalised, a study says. |
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http://www.pallcare.info
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| | Center for Palliative Care |
| | Our work focuses on improving patient-provider communication and the quality of end-of-life care, including discussions of care planning, pain management in seriously ill patients, and addressing psychosocial and spiritual needs of dying patients. | | | Our mission is to conduct research and provide educational tools that help to improve the understanding of communication in the medical setting and the quality of care at the end of life. | | | Provide training in the science and art of communication and palliative care for both physicians and physicians in training; and |
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http://hsrd.durham.med.va.gov/palliative/palliative.asp
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| | BioMed Central BMC Palliative Care |
| | BMC Palliative Care is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in the clinical, scientific, ethical and policy issues, local and international, regarding all aspects of hospice and palliative care for the dying and for those with profound suffering related to chronic illness. | | | The construct validity of a questionnaire to assess the pain and symptom control of people with HIV suggests that the selected measures can be used in population-based surveys to monitor HIV/AIDS palliative care programs in developing countries. | | | An assessment of food supplementation to chronically sick patients receiving home based care in Bangwe, Malawi : a descriptive study |
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http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcpalliatcare
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| | StopPain.org |
| | Visit our subpage for professionals in pain medicine and palliative care. |
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http://www.stoppain.org
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| | International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care |
| | Many people do not know what hospice / palliative care is, and what it is not; what its essential features are and how it can be provided. | | | Our Hospice and Palliative Care Clearing House Program has been a success. | | | Your membership provides credibility to IAHPC and improves our ability to help promote hospice and palliative care in the World. |
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http://www.hospicecare.com
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| | Palliative Care Victoria |
| | The key objective of the Palliative Care Communications Strategy is to increase the awareness and understanding of Palliative Care within the general community and the health care system. | | | Respite care can be provided to support families. | | | Caring for someone with a lifelimiting illness can be emotionally and physically exhausting. |
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http://www.pallcarevic.asn.au
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| | Palliative Care |
| | Palliative care is the total care of patients who are not responsive to curative treatment. | | | The goal of palliative care is to achieve the highest quality of life possible. | | | Patients may be treated at home, in the hospital, or in an inpatient hospice care facility. |
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http://www.stoppain.org/palliative_care
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| | Palliative _Care |
| | Kenyan patients thought that their psychological, social, and spiritual needs were met by their families, local community, and religious groups... | | | Experts Meeting About Palliative Care and Cancer Pain | | | Nursing Competency in Pain Control and Palliative Care |
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http://www.worldoncology.net/palliative__care.htm
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| | Palliative Care Australia - Home Page |
| | PCA encourages the dissemination of information to the general community about palliative care and to professional, para-professional and volunteer caregivers through education and awareness. | | | Use our site to find out more about palliative care, who provides it, where it is given, or how you can obtain further information on how to train in the field. | | | Palliative Care Australia is the National peak body representing the interests of palliative care service providers including anyone with an interest in palliative care both nationally and internationally. |
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http://www.pallcare.org.au
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| | Here nurses may share information with other professionals about initiatives related to improving patient care at the end of life. | | | Each fact sheet shares insights into other cultures by highlighting choices and behaviors of diverse populations at the end of live. | | | The report also explores key themes from the conference and highlights the need for further research. |
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http://www.palliativecarenursing.net
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| | What is Palliative Care? |
| | Palliative care provides comfort and support to the person and family. | | | We subscribe to the HONcode principles of the Health On the Net Foundation. | | | The goals of palliative care are to; ease pain and other symptoms (such as depression, upset stomach) |
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http://www.palliative.org/PC/GeneralPublic/PalliativeCare/WhatIsPC.html
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| | Pain and Palliative Care Reporter |
| | For purposes of this website, "palliative care" is the entire bundle of services that ease pain and provide comfort to an individual who has a serious illness or long-term chronic pain. | | | We encourage multi-disciplinary content that will help lawyers, doctors, patients and regulators understand one another better as they work to improve access to palliative care. | | | We are the on-line element of the Project on Palliative Care Law of the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. |
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| | Palliative Care |
| | MacEwan's Palliative Care education program addresses the management of the physical, psychosocial and spiritual concerns of these persons. | | | Our Palliative Care graduates are changing how care is delivered within institutions and in the community! | | | Palliative care aspires to relieve the suffering and enhance the quality of life in persons living with acute or chronic life threatening illnesses, as well as during their death and in the bereavement processes. |
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http://www.gmcc.ab.ca/web/hcs/palliative/home/index.cfm
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| | HMS Center for Palliative |
| | Practical Aspects of Palliative Medicine: Integrating Palliative Care into Clinical Practice | | | Not only did it address the needs of the learner regarding best educational practices, it also addressed the spiritual, emotional and social needs of the learner, reinforcing our commitment to palliative care education." | | | The Art and Science of Palliative Care Nursing |
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http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare
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| | The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization |
| | Caring Connections, NHPCO's consumer education program provides information about: Advance Care Planning, Hospice and Palliative Care, Caregiving, Grief, and more. | | | Visit Caring Connections for comprehensive information on end-of-life. |
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| | Palliative Care Council of South Australia Inc |
| | Palliative care aims to comfort, not to cure; to relieve pain and distress for people who are dying, and to support parents, families and friends in approaching death and healing grief. | | | In our website you will find a valuable information resource on palliative care services provided in South Australia and nationally. | | | The Palliative Care Council of South Australia is a voluntary organisation of more than 500 members. |
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http://www.pallcare.asn.au
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| | Center to Advance Palliative Care |
| | CAPC provides health care professionals with the tools and training necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs. | | | Clinical Practice Guidelines for Palliative Care - Evidence-based guidelines developed by experts in the field as part of the National Consensus Project. | | | Crosswalk of JCAHO Standards and Palliative Care - with Palliative Care Policies, Procedures and Assessment Tools. |
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| | Palliative Care |
| | Home > For Consumers > Education and Prevention > Patient Education > Palliative Care > Palliative Care | | | Palliative care - quality of life for people with a life-limiting illness, their families and carers. | | | A description of what is meant by the term palliative care, when and where it is provided and by whom. |
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http://health.gov.au/internet/wcms/publishing.nsf/Content/Palliative+Care-1
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| | Palliative Care |
| | For patients with a terminal illness, and their families, who desire assistance in the last stages of life, to live with dignity, comfort, and grace. | | | Nurses, Dieticians, Chaplains, Recreational Therapists, Social Workers, and Volunteers - our Palliative Care Team | | | Materials on this web site are for informational purposes and are not a substitute for consulting your personal physician. |
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| | RWJF - Newsroom - Features - A Record of Accomplishment in End-of-Life Care |
| | Last Acts created a wealth of useful Web content—for health care consumers, health-care practitioners, policy-makers and employers. | | | The articles are presented primarily for their historical interest, to illustrate the depth of the Foundation’s long commitment to quality end-of-life care. | | | Many of the articles remain current, but readers are advised that some of the information could be dated. |
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http://www.rwjf.org/newsroom/featureDetail.jsp?featureID=886&type=3
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| | Palliative.info |
| | A very helpful international email discussion list started and maintained by Dr. Andrew Wilcock for sharing clinical ideas with colleagues worldwide. | | | Clinical Resources- Links to sites with on-line texts, symptom control information, medication use such as subcutaneous administration and compatibility | | | Palliative.info offers an organized, up-to-date collection of links to palliative care resources on the internet, as well as locally developed palliative care material. |
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| | EAPC |
| | 2006 Last Year for Physicians to Gain Board Certification in Hospice and Palliative Medicine through ABHPM | | | of "A Guide on the Development of Palliative Nurse Education in Europe" | | | Development of Palliative Care in Europe an EAPC Task Force |
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