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Parental experiences with a paediatric palliative care team: A qualitative study

Background: Parents of children with a life-limiting disease have to rely on themselves at home while adequate paediatric palliative care is lacking. In several countries, paediatric palliative care teams are introduced to ensure continuity and quality of care and to support the child and the family. Yet, little is known about how parents experience such multidisciplinary teams.

Tue, 12/20/2022 - 11:23

Patients, caregivers and health‐care professionals’ experience with an interdisciplinary intervention for people with multimorbidity in primary care: A qualitative study

Background Multimorbidity challenges the health‐care system and requires innovative approaches.

Mon, 08/03/2020 - 16:12

266 Patient and Carers Experience of an Acute Care at Home Team: A Service Evaluation

Background The Aim of the Acute Care at Home Team is to provide acute care to over 65's in the patient's own home, providing assessment and treatment of acute conditions such as pneumonia, urinary sepsis and heart failure. It is a multidisciplinary team that works together to streamline services to enable a patient to stay safely in their own home. A full comprehensive geriatric assessment is carried out in all patients to help improve patient outcomes. The patients have full access to in patient services such as scans, and x-rays.

Wed, 12/18/2019 - 15:03

Comfort level of caregivers of cancer patients receiving palliative care

Objective: To verify the association between the level of comfort of the caregiver and socio-demographic variables related to caregiving, and the patient's functional status and symptoms.; Method: Cross-sectional study with non-probabilistic intentional sample. The instruments Palliative Performance Scale (score 0 to 100%), Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (symptom scores from zero to ten) and Holistic Comfort Questionnaire (total score ranging from 49 to 294 and mean score from 1 to 6) were used.

Thu, 01/31/2019 - 12:28

Policy Measures to Support Palliative Care at Home: A Cross-Country Case Comparison in Three European Countries

Context: The proportion of people in need of palliative care worldwide is rising, and the majority wish to receive this care at home.

Thu, 01/03/2019 - 15:02