Articles: palliative-care.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
A quality improvement intervention to increase palliative care in nursing homes.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Comparative Study Clinical Trial
Supportive-affective group experience for persons with life-threatening illness: reducing spiritual, psychological, and death-related distress in dying patients.
Attention to psycho-socio-spiritual needs is considered critical by patients with life-threatening illnesses and their caregivers. Palliative care interventions that address these needs--particularly spirituality--are lacking. ⋯ The use of the LTI-SAGE model for enhancing the end-of-life illness experience is promising.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Feb 2005
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialTransformative aspects of caregiving at life's end.
We do not know to what extent the needs of caregivers involved with patients at the end of life are being met by care providers and whether caregiving at life's end can be a positive experience. We used the Hospice Experience Model of Care as a framework for understanding the effect of transformative tasks on caregiving at life's end. ⋯ Two mediators reduce caregiver burden and all four of the mediators improve caregiver gain. Caregivers who are able to attend to these transformative aspects find more gain in the caregiving experience.
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Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical Trial
[Dyspnea and morphine aerosols in the palliative care of lung cancer].
To evaluate the effectiveness of morphine aerosols in the treatment of dyspnoea in the palliative care of patients with lung cancer. ⋯ The fact that both aerosols lead to a similar improvement in dyspnoea scores suggests that humidification of the airways rather than a pharmacological action may be beneficial in the treatment of dyspnoea in terminally ill patients.
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Fertility and sterility · Nov 2004
Randomized Controlled Trial Clinical TrialAdd-back therapy in the treatment of endometriosis-associated pain.
To determine the efficacy of GnRH analogue plus add-back therapy compared with GnRH analogue alone and estroprogestin in patients with relapse of endometriosis-associated pain. ⋯ Add-back therapy allows the treatment of women with relapse of endometriosis-associated pain for a longer period, with reduced bone mineral density loss, good control of pain symptoms, and better patient quality of life compared with GnRH analogue alone or oral contraceptive.