Browsing Palliative and Supportive Services Collected Works by Title
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Advance Care Planning for Adults With CKD: A Systematic Integrative Review
(Elsevier, 2014-05)Background Recent clinical practice guidelines have highlighted the importance of advance care planning (ACP) for improving end-of-life care for people with chronic kidney disease (CKD). Study Design We conducted a systematic ... -
The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice [ISRCTN81117481]
(2005)Background : The Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS) is a gold standard scale. The Thorne-modified KPS (TKPS) focuses on community-based care and has been shown to be more relevant to palliative care settings than the ... -
Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey
(2008)Background : This study examines the prevalence and nature of bereavement help-seeking among the population who experienced an "expected" death in the five years before their survey response. Such whole population data ... -
Building an Architectural Component Model for a Telehealth Service
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2015-09-16)Models of services, processes and technology are useful tools for conceptualizing complex systems such as healthcare. The application of a component architecture helps illustrate the processes and technologies that are ... -
Can Video Conferencing Be as Easy as Telephoning?-A Home Healthcare Case Study
(Scientific Research Publishing, 2016-01-13)In comparison with almost universal adoption of telephony and mobile technologies in modern day healthcare, video conferencing has yet to become a ubiquitous clinical tool. Currently telehealth services are faced with a ... -
Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems
(2008)Background : Stage at diagnosis plays a significant role in colorectal cancer (CRC) survival. Understanding which factors contribute to a more advanced stage at diagnosis is vital to improving overall survival. Comorbidity, ... -
Deathbed phenomena reported by patients in palliative care: clinical opportunities and responses
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2015)Over many decades and across many cultures and disciplines, the scientific literature reports unusual and hard to explain phenomena at the end of life. In the palliative care literature these reports are often anecdotal ... -
Designing Clinically Valuable Telehealth Resources: Processes to Develop a Community-Based Palliative Care Prototype
(JMIR Publications, 2014-09-04)Background: Changing population demography and patterns of disease are increasing demands on the health system. Telehealth is seen as providing a mechanism to support community-based care, thus reducing pressure on hospital ... -
Do patients and carers find separate palliative care clinic consultations acceptable? A pilot study.
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2014)Patient and caregiver needs; is it important to separate them during the palliative care consultation clinic? – Findings from the pilot of an initial new client psychosocial assessment clinic -
End-of-life care considerations for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender individuals
(Mark Allen Healthcare, 2012-01)Negative social attitudes, discrimination, and homophobia affect gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) individuals during their lifetimes. These experiences can affect how these individuals access health services ... -
Family Caregivers Who Would Be Unwilling to Provide Care at the End of Life Again: Findings from the Health Survey for England Population Survey
(Public Library of Science, 2016)Background Family caregivers provide significant care at the end of life. We aimed to describe caregiver characteristics, and of those unwilling to repeat this role under the same circumstances. Methods Observational ... -
Filters and hubs: shortening the distance to palliative care evidence
(CSIRO Publishing, 2012-01-16)Palliative care is an integral part of the care provided by GPs and other primary health care providers, and as Australia’s population ages and the palliative care needs of patients with end stage organ failure are recognised, ... -
Find Me the Evidence: Connecting the Practitioner With the Evidence on Bereavement Care
(Taylor and Francis, 2015-01)This study reports on the development and application of a Bereavement Search Filter with a known level of retrieval performance to support access to the underlying knowledge base for bereavement care. -
Handheld computers for data entry: high tech has its problems too
(BioMed Central - http://www.biomedcentral.com, 2007-02-20)Background The use of handheld computers in medicine has increased in the last decade, they are now used in a variety of clinical settings. There is an underlying assumption that electronic data capture is more accurate ... -
Health-related quality of life measured using the EQ-5D-5L: South Australian population norms.
(BioMed Central, 2016)Background Although a five level version of the widely-used EuroQol 5 dimensions (EQ-5D) instrument has been developed, population norms are not yet available for Australia to inform the future valuation of health in ...