Articles: palliative-care.
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Palliative medicine · Jul 2022
Face and content validity, acceptability, feasibility, and implementability of a novel outcome measure for children with life-limiting or life-threatening illness in three sub-Saharan African countries.
The Children's Palliative Care Outcome Scale (C-POS) is the first measure developed for children with life-limiting and -threatening illness. It is essential to determine whether the measure addresses what matters to children, and if they can comprehend and respond to its items. ⋯ C-POS items capture the core symptoms and concerns that matter to children and their families. C-POS is feasible, comprehensible, and acceptable for use in clinical settings; areas for further development and improvement are identified.
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Background: Public and private hospitals treat different patient populations, which may impact resources to deliver palliative care (PC). Objectives: Compare public and private hospital PC service structures, processes, and treatment outcomes. Design: Retrospective data analysis of the Palliative Care Quality Network between 2018 and 2019. ⋯ Conclusions: Public hospital PC teams treat a more diverse symptomatic population. Yet, they achieved comparable outcomes with similar staffing to private hospitals. These findings have important ramifications for policy makers and public institution leaders.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Jul 2022
Mindful self-care, self-compassion, and resilience among palliative care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Given the adverse impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of palliative care providers, there is a growing need to better understand protective variables, such as self-care, mindfulness and self-compassion, as they relate to resilience. ⋯ Results from this study extend the currently limited knowledge of self-care, mindfulness and self-compassion, as protective variables related to resilience in palliative care providers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Further longitudinal studies into causal effects on health and wellbeing over time are needed.