Measuring effectiveness in community-based palliative care programs: a systematic review

E Vernon, MC Hughes, M Kowalczyk - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Community-based palliative care (CBPC) serves seriously ill individuals by integrating care
for symptom and stress relief with local health care systems. This review provides the first …

A scoping review of the evidence for community-based dementia palliative care services and their related service activities

N O'Connor, S Fox, WG Kernohan, J Drennan… - BMC palliative …, 2022 - Springer
Background Palliative care is identified internationally as a priority for efficacious dementia
care. Research into “effective models” of palliative care for people with dementia has been …

Integrated telehealth-assisted home-based specialist palliative care in rural Australia: a feasibility study

B Jiang, M Bills, P Poon - Journal of telemedicine and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Introduction This study assessed the feasibility of integrating telehealth-assisted home-
based specialist palliative care (TH-SPC) into a rural community setting. Methods This was a …

Developing an integrated model of community-based palliative care into the primary health care (PHC) for terminally ill cancer patients in Iran

S Hojjat-Assari, M Rassouli, M Madani, H Heydari - BMC Palliative Care, 2021 - Springer
Background Patients with cancer commonly experience pain and suffering at the end of life
days. Community-based palliative care can improve the quality of life of terminally-ill cancer …

Exploring costs, cost components, and associated factors among people with dementia approaching the end of life: A systematic review

J Leniz, D Yi, E Yorganci, LE Williamson… - … Research & Clinical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction Understanding costs of care for people dying with dementia is essential to guide
service development, but information has not been systematically reviewed. We aimed to …

Health care costs at the end of life for patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Evaluation of a pilot multidisciplinary collaborative interstitial lung disease clinic

M Kalluri, J Lu-Song, S Younus… - Annals of the …, 2020 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Even though idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease with high morbidity
and mortality and no cure, palliative care is rarely implemented, leading to high symptom …

Pulmonary rehabilitation, physical activity, respiratory failure and palliative respiratory care

MA Spruit, CL Rochester, F Pitta, K Kenn… - Thorax, 2019 - thorax.bmj.com
The CIRO Academy in Horn (the Netherlands) organised a 2-day meeting to present and
discuss the studies published in 2017 pertaining to key priority areas of respiratory and …

Hospitalizations and emergency department visits trends among elderly individuals in proximity to death: a retrospective population-based study

C Barbiellini Amidei, S Macciò, A Cantarutti… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Acute healthcare services are extremely important, particularly during the COVID-19
pandemic, as healthcare demand has rapidly intensified, and resources have become …

Palliative care for people with dementia

S Timmons, S Fox - Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2023 - Elsevier
Dementia is the most common neurologic disease, affecting approximately 55 million people
worldwide. Dementia is a terminal illness, although not always recognized as such. This …

Healthcare costs at the end of life for patients with non-cancer diseases and cancer in Denmark

AHS Vestergaard, LH Ehlers, MA Neergaard… - PharmacoEconomics …, 2023 - Springer
Objectives To examine costs of care from a healthcare sector perspective within 1 year
before death in patients with non-cancer diseases and patients with cancer. Methods This …