Using phenobarbital for delirium 155.58 KB

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Using phenobarbital for delirium

Submitted by: Balu Natarajan, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. USA

Admitting a dying patient to the hospital 117.61 KB

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Admitting a dying patient to the hospital.

Submitted by: Balu Natarajan, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. USA

Lidocaine for Neuropathic Pain 116.40 KB

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Lidocaine for Neuropathic Pain

Submitted by: Balu Natarajan, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. USA

Steroids in spinal cord compression 85.36 KB

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Use of steroids in spinal cord compression.

Submitted by: Balu Natarajan, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. USA

Total Parenteral Nutrition 118.46 KB

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Is it ever appropriate to give Total Parenteral Nutrition to a dying patient?

Submitted by: Balu Natarajan, M.D.
Chief Medical Officer, Seasons Hospice & Palliative Care. USA

End of Life Care in the Prison Environment: Updated November 1, 2018 373.14 KB

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Following is a representative sample of articles, reports, etc., on hospice and palliative care in the prison environment noted over the past five years (2013-2018)in the weekly report  Media Watch.

Although a universal public health issue, it is in the United States that most
interest and attention has been afforded the aging and the terminal ill prison population.

This backgrounder begins with twenty-plus articles by way of a broad overview of the issue, followed by additional articles, etc., (in descending order of publication) that offer a national and state-by state overview. This is followed by a short list of articles, etc., on end-of-life care in the prison systems in Canada, the U.K., France, Poland and Australia. Added is a list of additional, selected resources.

Prison Hospice Backgrounder May 2018 297.02 KB

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Following is a representative sample of articles, reports, etc., on hospice and palliative care in the prison environment noted over the past five years (2013-2018) in the weekly report Media Watch.

1 Although a universal public health issue, it is in the United States that most
interest and attention has been afforded the aging and the terminal ill prison population. This backgrounder begins with twenty-plus articles by way of a broad overview of the issue, followed by additional articles, etc., (in descending order of publication) that offer a national and state-bystate overview. This is followed by a short list of articles, etc., on end-of-life care in the prison systems in Canada, the U.K., France, Poland and Australia. Added is a list of additional, selected resources.

Media Watch 589 515.98 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#589).

Of particular interest:

Improving resuscitation decisions: A trust-wide initiative

Perspectives of people with dementia and carers on advance care planning and end-of-life care: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies

Research prioritisation exercises related to the care of children and young people with life-limiting conditions, their parents and all those who care for them: A systematic scoping review

Media Watch 588 612.67 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#588).

Of particular interest:

The motivations and consequences of dying at home: Family caregiver perspectives

Did a goals-of-care discussion happen? Differences in the occurrence of goals-of-care discussions as reported by patients, clinicians, and in the electronic health record

A systematic review in support of the National Consensus Project Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care

Media Watch 587 657.26 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#587).

Of particular interest:

Dying on hospice in the midst of an opioid crisis: What should we do now?

Weakening the ethical distinction between euthanasia, palliative opioid use and palliative sedation

Communication differences between oncologists and palliative care clinicians: A qualitative analysis of early, integrated palliative care in patients with advanced cancer

Media Watch 585 674.32 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#585).

Of particular interest:

How much end‐of‐life care is of low value?

Providing palliative care at the end of life: Should health professionals fear regulation?

Lancet Commission on the Value of Death

Media Watch 584 703.00 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#584).

Of particular interest:

Systematic review and meta‐analysis of cannabinoids in palliative medicine

Cancer Council New South Wales – policy & advocacy: “I Care for Palliative Care” campaign to increase government investment in specialist palliative care services

Media Watch 583 757.28 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#583).

Of particular interest:

Dying healthy: Public health priorities for fixed population life expectancies

The doll is dead: Simulation in palliative care education

White Paper for Global Palliative Care Advocacy: Recommendations from a Pontifical Academy for Life Expert Advisory Group...

Media Watch 581 695.60 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#581).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Improving patient and caregiver outcomes in oncology: Team‐based, timely, and targeted palliative care

Managing medicines for patients dying at home: A review of family caregivers’ experiences

Beware of predatory journals: A caution from editors of three family medicine journals

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Media Watch 580 527.56 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#580).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Ambiguity in end-of-life care terminology: What do we mean by “comfort care”?

Navigating the intangible: Working with non-physical suffering on the front lines of palliative are

Life in nursing homes and assisted living means waking to a neighbor’s death

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Media Watch 579 550.84 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#579).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

A model to improve hospital-based palliative care: The Palliative Care Redistribution Integrated System Model

Improving value of care for older adults with advanced medical illness and functional decline: Cost analyses of a home-based palliative care program

“Same same or different?” A review of reviews of person-centered and patient-centered care

Media Watch 578 536.11 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#578).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Social media in palliative medicine research: Jump into the cool water

Patient, caregiver and taxpayer knowledge of palliative care and views on a model of community-based palliative care

How we should assess the delivery of end-of-life care in general practice? A systematic review

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Media Watch 577 545.69 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#577).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Promoting patient interests in implementing the Federal Right-to-Try Act

How do expatriate health workers cope with needs to provide palliative care in humanitarian emergency assistance? A qualitative study with in-depth interviews

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Media Watch 576 556.00 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#576).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Association of perceived futile or potentially inappropriate care with burnout and thoughts of quitting among health-care providers

Use of palliative care earlier in the disease course in the context of the opioid epidemic: Educational, research, and policy issues

Ethical, palliative, and policy considerations in disorders of consciousness

Media Watch 575 523.98 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#575).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

• Roles of physicians in healthy dying
• State of advance care planning research: A descriptive overview of systematic reviews
• U.K. Supreme Court backs agreed end-of-life decisions

Media Watch 574 466.11 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#574).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Tracey judgement and hospice do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation orders: Steady as she goes or seismic change?

A systematic review of the use of the electronic health record for patient identification, communication, and clinical support in palliative care

Should emergency department patients with end-of-life directives be admitted to the ICU?

End of Life Care in the Prison Environment: May 1, 2018 297.02 KB

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Following is a representative sample of articles, reports, etc., on hospice and palliative care in the prison environment noted over the past five years (2013-2018) in the weekly report  Media Watch.

Although a universal public health issue, it is in the United States that most
interest and attention has been afforded the aging and the terminal ill prison population.

This backgrounder begins with twenty-plus articles by way of a broad overview of the issue, followed by additional articles, etc., (in descending order of publication) that offer a national and state-by state overview. This is followed by a short list of articles, etc., on end-of-life care in the prison systems in Canada, the U.K., France, Poland and Australia. Added is a list of additional, selected resources.

Media Watch 573 517.95 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#573).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

End-of-life care isn’t where to find savings

Demystification of palliative care: What palliative care teams don’t want you to think about them

In an era of assisted death, we need palliative care more than ever

Media Watch 572 544.41 KB

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Attached is the current issue (#572).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

The hospice and palliative care advanced practice registered nurse workforce: Results of a national survey [in the U.S.]

How do experienced professors teach palliative medicine in European universities? A cross-case analysis of eight undergraduate educational programs

Content validity of a conceptual model of a palliative approach

Media Watch 571 529.20 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#571).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

• The “lived experience” of palliative care patients in one acute hospital setting: A qualitative study
• How might organisational institutionalism support the challenges of the modern hospice?
• Responding to urgency of need: Initial qualitative stage in the development of a triage tool for use in palliative care services

Media Watch 570 466.11 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#570).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

• Adequate, questionable, and inadequate drug prescribing for older adults at the end of life: A European expert consensus
• Using simulation modelling to test the impact of future demand for end-of-life care
• Re-framing global palliative care advocacy for the sustainable development goal era: A qualitative study of the views of international palliative care experts

Media Watch 569 499.76 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#569).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

End-stage renal disease and hospice care in the U.S.: Are dialysis patients welcome?

Do medical students expect palliative care will be satisfying?

Advance decisions to refuse treatment: What GPs need to know

Media Watch 568 543.83 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#568)

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

When religion and medicine clash: Non-beneficial treatments and hope for a miracle

Palliative care: Who is responsible?

Media Watch 567 441.85 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#567).

Leadership in palliative medicine: Moral, ethical and educational

False hope with the Right to Try Act

Media Watch 566 548.72 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#566).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Palliative curriculum re-imagined: A critical evaluation of the U.K. Palliative Medicine syllabus

End-of-life decision making by family caregivers of persons with advanced dementia: A literature review of decision aids

We spend generously to extend lives of people with terminal illnesses – against the public’s wishes

Media Watch 565 421.06 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#565).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Centenarians’ end‐of‐life thoughts and plans: Is their social network on the same page?
Language used by health care professionals to describe dying at an acute care hospital
The colours and contours of compassion: A systematic review of the perspectives of compassion among ethnically diverse patients and healthcare providers

Media Watch 560 712.41 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#560).
Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Increasing information dissemination in cancer communication: Effects of using “palliative,” “supportive,” or “hospice” care terminology

Medical assistance in dying: A paediatric perspective

The involvement of cancer patients in the four stages of decision-making preceding continuous sedation until death: A qualitative study

Media Watch 555 501.64 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#555).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Can the ethical best practice of shared decision-making lead to moral distress?

Media Watch 556 469.68 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#556).

Of particular interest in this week's issue:

Evaluating palliative care resources available to the public using the Internet and social media

Media Watch 557 506.60 KB

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Attached is the current issue of Media Watch (#557).

Of particular interest in this week's issue

Value-impregnated factual claims may undermine medical decision-making