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• Good communication in health care is about listening

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 564
  A great deal of effort in the current health care environment is being put into improving communication – between patients and families and members of the health care team, among family members, and among members of the team. The case can be made that good communication is at the heart of patient safety, cultural ...
  10 hours ago

• UK death in a home setting on the rise

  
  SAGE Insight — Authority: 102
  Reversal of the British trends in place of death: Time series analysis 2004–2010 From Palliative Medicine Although around two thirds of us would prefer to die at home, in the developed world the trend in recent years has been for the majority to spend their final days in an institutional setting. But ...
  6 days ago

• Choosing To Die At Home In The UK

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  Although around two thirds of us would prefer to die at home, in the developed world the trend in recent years has been for the majority to spend their final days in an institutional setting. But according to new research available in the journal Palliative Medicine, published by SAGE and from Kings College London, ...
  1 week ago

• does anyone know any forum or website which mainly discuss about palliative care?

  
  Interesting Health and Medical Information. Daily Updates! — Authority: 135
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  1 week ago

• Le Cure Palliative Domiciliari in Italia – da AGENAS – CURE PRIMARIE

  
  Politica dei servizi sociali: ricerche in rete — Authority: 130
  Le Cure Palliative Domiciliari in Italia – AGENAS Ultimo agg. il 27 novembre 2010 Documento di valore strategico al fine di rendere concreti ed attuabili le indicazioni normative emerse dalla recente approvazione della legge 15 marzo 2010 n.38 – Disposizioni per garantire l’accesso alle cure palliative e alla ...
  1 week ago

• normative riguardanti le cure palliative, in Federazione Cure Palliative

  
  Politica dei servizi sociali: ricerche in rete — Authority: 130
  DISEGNI DI LEGGE 2008/2011 I Disegni di Legge in Commissione Igiene e Sanità del Senato INTRODUZIONE GENERALE A CURA DI FURIO ZUCCO Le normative nazionali nel settore delle cure palliative e della terapia del dolore NORMATIVE SPECIFICHE REGIONALI SULLE CURE PALLIATIVE NORMATIVE SPECIFICHE NAZIONALI PER LE CURE ...
  1 week ago

• Soup On Sunday Charity Event In Charlotte

  
  Ask Miss A — Authority: 430
  The Phillip L. Van Every Culinary Arts Center at CPCC is offering up one of the tastiest days of the year! The event benefits the Hospice & Palliative Care Center, and for a $30 general admission ticket, you’ll be able to try soups from over 35 different premier Charlotte restaurants, gourmet coffee from ...
  1 week ago

• Words of Comfort: What to Say When Someone is Dying

  
  Healthy & Green Living — Authority: 590
  By Candace Rotolo, AgingCare.comBeing diagnosed with a terminal illness is traumatic. But sometimes, what people say in an effort to offer comfort is equally distressing.The truth is, many of us just dont know what to say to a loved one who is facing their mortality."Most of the time I really liked when people said ...
  1 week ago

• Shorter length of service causes hospice concern

  
  FierceHealthcare — Authority: 577
  Although hospice care has remained steady, the length of service (or length of stay) dropped last year, suggesting that the providers are not reaching patients in a timely manner, according to a new National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) report . There were 1.58 million hospice patients in 2010, ...
  1 week ago

• Mattress Graves

  
  NewAmerica.net Blog Posts — Authority: 95
  Shannon Brownlees back at TIME Ideas with a new op-ed yesterday: this one about the article we mentioned last month, called How Doctors Die . Brownlee adds more context to the first commentary, by retired physician Ken Murray, with gut-wrenching descriptions of precisely why doctors tend to avoid intense, invasive ...
  1 week ago

• Doctors choices at the end of life, for themselves and their patients

  
  ACP Internist — Authority: 115
  "Soon I will rest, yes, forever sleep. Earned it I have." --Jedi Master Yoda I have some bad news for you. Youre going to die. Not soon, I hope. But for the foreseeable future the death rate will remain one per person. This week a patient pointed me to a wonderful article by Ken Murray, "How Doctors Die" . Dr. ...
  1 week ago

• How I became a hospice volunteer

  
  KevinMD.com — Authority: 564
  People often ask me how I became a hospice volunteer. For the record, nobody is more surprised than I am. You know how some people can walk into a patient’s room, plump pillows, and make all the right comments? Years ago, I was not that person. I never really felt comfortable visiting sick people. Working in the ...
  1 week ago

• DYING, THE END GAME, Part Seventeen--Coping Strategies

  
  SexyPrime, a blog by Susan Crain Bakos — Authority: 94
  Art Image:  "Elegant Lady" by ximarah on Photobucket   Feeling the lumps beneath my skin grow and spread puts an entirely new spin on that phrase ticking biological clock —the cancer version.  When I began this journey, I could not understand why so many people choose radical treatment against all logic.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse Job at Medacs Healthcare Ltd, Auckland

  
  Job Search in New Zealand — Authority: 138
  Location:    Auckland Salary:    $50,000 – $59,999 Work type:    Full Time Classification:    Healthcare & Medical    Nursing – Community, Maternal & Child Health   Community Palliative Care Clinical Nurse This is an organisation that truly provides an environment ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Story About Life… How To Live Life

  
  Self improvement Blog & Personal Improvement Website — Authority: 85
  This article is written by someone else — is not only motivating, but it’s “moving”. Feel free to leave your comment after reading it. – Patric Chan Re: Nurse reveals the top 5 regrets people make on their deathbed For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Media Advisory: Info session on palliative care & disabled persons

  
  University of Manitoba News Blog — Authority: 107
  The Vulnerable Persons and End of Life New Emerging Team will be hosting an information session on palliative care and people with disabilities on Thursday, January 12, 2012, from 12:00 noon to 3:00 pm at the Manitoba Legislature, Golden Boy Room, 450 Broadway. The event will feature presentations from leading ...
  2 weeks ago

• Healthcare Professionals For Assisted Dying Welcomes Commission On Assisted Dyings Findings

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 684
  The conclusion of a report by the Commission on Assisted Dying that there is a strong case for providing the choice of assisted dying for terminally ill people has been welcomed by Healthcare Professionals for Assisted Dying (HPAD), as well as the way in which the conclusion was reached. The paper is the result of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Assessing patient prognosis (ePrognosis)

  
  The Incidental Economist — Authority: 631
  Lindsay Yourman and colleagues have a paper in JAMA this week reviewing prognostic indices for older adults. Even more interesting, this team of colleagues from UCSF has developed an on-line tool, ePrognosis that provides a simple way to enter patient information into 16 predictive tools and receive a predicted ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Brief Outline Of Birth Control And Cervical Cancer

  
  I wanted Info — Authority: 126
  Birth control is a large issue, there is no doubt of that and women are more aware than ever that having children is not a necessary result of having sex. They are also conscious that having children at the wrong time can ruin their careers and they are also aware that passions or alcohol get in the way of safe sex ...
  4 weeks ago

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