palliative care for kidney disease

... conditions require paediatric palliative care One aim of palliative care is to enable a home death if desired and well supported However, there is little data to inform care, particularly from countries ... without paediatric palliative care) shows that palliative care needs are increasing Children are surviving longer and, in contrast with countries where paediatric palliative care is thriving, ... well-developed paediatric palliative care (PPC); 66% have no reported activity, compared to 32% for adults [5, 6] Hindering PPC development is a non-uniform definition of need A step forward was taken

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2020, 22:39

... quality of life, Palliative Care Outcome Scale, Symptom burden, Quality of life, Palliative care * Correspondence: christina.ramsenthaler@kcl.ac.uk 1 Department of Palliative Care, Policy and ... relapsed/progressive disease reported the highest mean number of symptoms and the highest overall palliative care concerns (F = 9.56, p < 0.001) Factors associated with high palliative care concerns ... impact of the disease and its treatment, not much is known on who is most in need of supportive and palliative care This study aimed to (a) assess symptom severity, palliative care concerns and

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2020, 01:37

... setDefinition of a palliative care service 1 All the services below are part of a comprehensive palliative care service: Palliative day care, Palliative home care support team, Hospice beds, Palliative ... with chronic diseases or with cancer, the demand for palliative care will increase too [2,3]. In 2003, the Council of Europe launched recommen-dations for the organisation of palliative care regarding ... palliative care service: Palliative day care Structure indicator All settings New developed 3 All the services below are part of a comprehensive palliative care service: Palliative home care support

Ngày tải lên: 01/11/2022, 09:54

... greater than for the usual care arm (depressed—mean QALYs: collaborative care (0.168); usual care (0.158); non-depressed—mean QALYs: collaborative care (0.207); usual care (0.196)) The ICER for the ... usual care; ▸ Estimate the costs of health and social care in the col-laborative care and usual care groups; ▸ Assess whether there are differences in costs between collaborative care and usual care; ... collaborative care intervention: a randomized collaborative care for depression in UK primary care: economic 2014;9:e104225. diabetes self-care, medication adherence, and preventive care. combining

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 15:16

... AccessPrevalence and risk factors for cardiovascular disease among chronic kidney disease patients: results from the Chinese cohort study of chronic kidney disease (C-STRIDE) Jun Yuan1,2, Xin-Rong ... intervals for these risk factors were 3.78 (2.55–5.59) for age 45–64 years and 6.07 (3.89–9 47) for age≥65 years compared with age <45 years; 2.07 (1.28–3.34) for CKD stage 3a, 1.66 (1.00–2.62) for ... respectively (P for trend = 0.001) The same pat-tern was observed with cerebrovascular disease (P for trend < 0.001) and PAD (P for trend = 0.001) The propor-tions of MI, cerebrovascular disease and

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:02

... further tested for clinical use Abbreviations AKI: Acute kidney injury; ANOVA: Analysis of variance; cDNA: Complementary DNA; CKD: Chronic kidney disease; CKDu: Chronic kidney disease of unknown ... Cooper MA, Hoy WE Biomarkers in chronic kidney disease: a review Kidney Int 2011; 80(8):806 –21. 3 Ju W, Smith S, Kretzler M Genomic biomarkers for chronic kidney disease Transl Res 2012;159(4):290 ... feasible for developing coun-tries, it is necessary to at least get specific to the disease level For a disease like CKD, although there are some common pathways that lead to the progression of the disease,

Ngày tải lên: 04/12/2022, 16:06

... Cockcroft-Gault formula 2.5 classification of chronic kiDney Disease A widely adopted classification of chronic kidney disease was developed by the American National Kidney Foundation Kidney Disease ... factors for CKD in the Swedish population.26 c low socioeconomic status should be considered as a risk factor for the development of chronic kidney disease. 2.2 Detecting kiDney Damage Kidney ... chronic kidney disease 1* Kidney damage with normal or raised GFR ≥902* Kidney damage with mild decrease in GFR 60-893A 3b Moderately lowered GFR 45-5930-44 5 Kidney failure (end-stage renal disease)

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 14:20

... work and to Robyn Faddenand Karin More for their careful proofreading Sasha McInnesgenerously shared information and resources; we thank her forthis and for believing in the critical importance ... Trang 1Report availablein alternate formats British ColumbiaCentre of Excellencefor W omen’s Health Vancouver, BC C A N A D A Hearing Voices Mental Health Care for Women Women’s By Marina Morrow ... toresidential care facilities In our focus groups the issue of safety in housing came uprepeatedly Women spoke abouthow residential care facilities withpredominately male occupantswere uncomfortable for

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... aspects of health care experiences for Black Women and Women of Colour, including experiences related to seeking and receiving health care, perceived needs and expectations for health care, and perceptions ... Appendix A for information about collaborating organizations) The Access Study was funded by the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long Term Care (MOHLTC) through its Primary Health Care Transition ... accessing primary health care for Black Women and Women of Colour • Section II discusses the Primary Health Care Logic Model • Section III presents recommendations for approaches that can be

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 12:20

... TRANSITIONING INTO ADULT CARE A few of the major points and problems that were identified for youth transitioning into adult care were: • Currently, there is no systematic incentive for adult physicians ... felt comfortable using the computer in no time at all! If you are a participant in SMART University, you are eligible for this class Please contact Yolanda at (212) 564-3282 for more information ... higher risk for STIs (sexually transmitted infections) for several reasons: • During the heterosexual sex act, boys ejaculate their semen inside the vagina The semen stays there for hours to

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 14:20

... coordinated care of the elderly as a focus of health system reform were included Many hundreds of articles located were about the coordination of care for a specific disease or diseases For example, ... care programs 1.4 Form Lastly, the concept of integrated care can refer to form Forms of integration can either be vertical or horizontal • Vertical integration refers to the delivery of care ... characterize care for acute conditions, to long-term, comprehensive care for those with continuing care needs To support the shift, developed countries have made improved integration of continuing care

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... andin-home care involving short visits, often without payment for travel time Career opportunities for care staff are few, and in the past many workers inthe sector stayed at the same level for most ... social enterprises.The market for social care The NHS and Community Care Act made a series of significant changes to theway that social care was organised and paid for Its primary aim is to enableolder ... independent sector for residential care, but very few independentproviders of home care This funding stimulated a new care market The independent sector is sometimes divided into the for profit sector

Ngày tải lên: 14/03/2014, 17:20

... patient is given medicines for the relief of pain, or for the reduction of temperature, stimulants or sedatives for the heart, cathartics for the bowels or diuretics for the kidneys, expectorants ... to the kidneys, in spite of their greatly increased work, for invalids with badly diseased kidneys take the milk diet successfully Some patients, it is true, have slight pains in the kidneys ... afraid to give the milk diet in any case of diseased blood vessels, or in aneurism caused by disease, for I believe the blood carries its own cure for these conditions, but COMPLETE REST MUST

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 00:20

... D (2000) Palliative Care in the Home Oxford University Press, Oxford Palmer E, Howarth J (2005) Palliative Care for the Primary Care Team Quay Books, London Thomas K (2003) Caring for the Dying ... condition Palliative care should not be confused Trang 11with terminal care, as many patients have palliative care needs from the time of their diagnosis and require ongoing palliative care for many ... of palliative care In: Abu-Saad H (ed) Evidence-Based Palliative Care: Across the Life Span, pp 14–24 Blackwell Science, Oxford Addington-Hall J, Higginson I (eds) (2001) Palliative Care for

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 13:20

... KIDNEY DISEASE, ACUTE KIDNEY INJURY AND POLYCYSTIC KIDNEY DISEASE Edited by Soundarapandian Vijayakumar Trang 2Novel Insights on Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Kidney Injury and Polycystic Kidney ... Chronic Kidney Disease, Acute Kidney Injury and Polycystic Kidney Disease, Edited by Soundarapandian Vijayakumar p cm ISBN 978-953-51-0234-2 Trang 5Contents Preface IX Part 1 Acute and Chronic Kidney ... shown for the excretion phase only (D) Renogram curves are illustrated for both kidneys (E) as well as for both ureters (F) Appropriate excretion is observed in the left kidney and ureter both before

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... and Long-Term Care 2 The Role of Residence in Long-Term Care 3 Care Settings 4 Who Needs and Uses Long-Term Care? 5 Who Provides Care? 9 Informal Care 9 Formal Care Providers ... from the 1989 Informal Caregivers Survey—the most recent national survey of informal caregivers for the elderly long-term care population—indicate that almost 75 percent of primary caregivers are ... care and long-term care, such as home health careand subacute care, and efforts by states to substitute federal dollars for their own, Medicare nowpays more of the costs than before The extent to

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 17:20

... PAIN RELIEF AND PALLIATIVE CARE IN CHILDREN families seek out information; others may find that too much information increases their anxiety Health-care providers should therefore try to individualize ... spiritual problems, is paramount The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families Many aspects of palliative care are also applicable earlier in the ... to the concept of palliative care Trang 18 Palliative care In a medical context, the verb “to palliate'” means to mitigate, to alleviate, to lessen the severity of (pain or disease), or to give

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... model of care, how willexpanding access to palliative care affect quality of care?Will the additional services that palliative care providesresult in excessive health care costs? How will palliativeservices ... Ensuring QualityCancer Care and Improving Palliative Care for Cancer, document the shortcomings in carefor patients with advanced, incurable illness and identify barriers to quality care at the end ... End-of-Life Care Valley News For information about the financial implications of integrating palliative care with curative care, see the recent Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care monograph,

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20

... response It sets out evidence for policies for palliative care for older people, arguments for integrating palliative care across health services, and models for effective care solutions that will ... policies for palliative care, both for older people and for the diseases they commonly suffer from; • a lack of integration of palliative care across health care settings and services; • a lack of palliative ... Respiratory disease In: Addington-Hall JM, Higginson IJ, eds Palliative care for non-cancer patients Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001 20 Hanrahan P, Lutchins DJ, Murphy K Palliative care for patients...

Ngày tải lên: 05/03/2014, 18:20

... strategy for palliative care services in Wales17 • the All-Wales Minimum Standards for specialist palliative care1 8B • a Cancer Information Framework and the establishment of a Cancer Information ... should be consistent with the Information for Health strategy of the NHS Information Authority8 in England (Informing Healthcare: transforming healthcare using information and IT in Wales) In line ... providing palliative care fall into two distinct categories : • • I16 those providing day-to-day care to patients and carers those who specialise in palliative care (consultants in palliative...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 23:20