End-of-life decision making and communication of bereaved family members of African Americans with serious illness

ER Smith-Howell, SE Hickman… - Journal of Palliative …, 2016 - liebertpub.com
Objective: The study objective was to examine factors that influence African American (AA)
family members' end-of-life care decision outcomes for a relative who recently died from …

Acceptability and reliability of a novel palliative care screening tool among emergency department providers

J Bowman, N George, N Barrett… - Academic …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background The Palliative Care and Rapid Emergency Screening (P‐Ca RES)
Project is an initiative intended to improve access to palliative care (PC) among emergency …

A comparative study: classification vs. user-based collaborative filtering for clinical prediction

F Hao, RH Blair - BMC medical research methodology, 2016 - Springer
Background Recommender systems have shown tremendous value for the prediction of
personalized item recommendations for individuals in a variety of settings (eg, marketing, e …

Racial differences in hospitalizations of dying Medicare–Medicaid dually eligible nursing home residents

S Cai, SC Miller, DB Mukamel - Journal of the American …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives To examine whether racial differences in end‐of‐life (EOL) hospitalizations vary
according to the presence of advance directives, specifically do‐not‐hospitalize (DNH) …

Planificación adelantada de los cuidados en pacientes con enfermedades crónicasy necesidad de atención paliativa

VC Planes, RN Sanz, MS Font - Medicina Paliativa, 2016 - Elsevier
Objetivo El objetivo de este trabajo se centra en la propuesta de un modelo conceptual que
permita identificar las dimensiones relevantes en la toma de decisiones (TD) sobre los …

Family perspectives on overall care in the intensive care unit

L Hansen, SJ Rosenkranz, RA Mularski… - Nursing research, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Background Family members' perspectives about satisfaction with care provided in the
intensive care unit (ICU) have become an important part of quality assessment and …

[PDF][PDF] Advance care planning in nurse practitioner practice: A cross-sectional descriptive study

L Rietze, R Heale, L Hill, S Roles - Nursing Leadership, 2016 - researchgate.net
It is estimated that the number of people who die of life-limiting illnesses in Canada will
double by the year 2056. Advance care planning (ACP) is one way to improve the quality of …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing emotional suffering in palliative care: use of a structured note template to improve documentation

S Lamba, A Berlin, R Goett, CB Ponce… - Journal of pain and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Context Documentation of the emotional or psychological needs of seriously ill patients
receiving specialty palliative care is endorsed by the “Measuring What Matters” project as a …

Ethical case study of the researcher–participant relationship in end-of-life research

DP Olsen, RH Lehto, RR Chan - Western journal of nursing …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Nurse-researchers studying interventions for patients at the end-of-life may become close
with participants due to the nature of interactions within the research protocol. In such …

Quality of life and recommendations for further care

MS Putman, HJ Tak, FA Curlin, JD Yoon - Critical care medicine, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: Physician recommendations for further medical treatment or palliative treatment
only at the end of life may influence patient decisions. Little is known about the patient …