Oncology & Cancer
Living well with advanced cancer
While many of us may benefit from the extraordinary advances being made in cancer care, there are still about 45,000 Australians each year whose cancer cannot be cured.
Aug 1, 2023
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News tagged with palliative care services
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UK-wide evaluation finds significant and poorly identified unmet needs in end of life care in hospitals
People dying in UK hospitals without specialist palliative care input frequently have "significant and poorly identified unmet needs," finds a UK-wide evaluation—the first of its kind—published online in the journal BMJ ...
Jul 10, 2023
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Medical economics
Older people who are homeless need better access to hospice and palliative care, say researchers
Most people may not wish to devote much time to thinking about their death. However, it's an unfortunate fact that the entry point into experiences or conversations around death and end-of-life care can happen abruptly.
May 12, 2023
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Report: British Muslims faced difficulties accessing health care during pandemic
A new report involving UCL researchers has laid bare difficulties British Muslims face when accessing palliative and end of life care.
Mar 13, 2023
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Medical research
Serum microRNAs as new criteria for referral to early palliative care services in advanced cancer patients
A major obstacle to the implementation of early palliative care (EPC) is the lack of objective criteria for referral to EPC. Circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) have been recognized as promising biomarkers.
Dec 29, 2022
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Families and practitioners adapting to virtual funerals during the COVID-19 pandemic
The growing use of virtual funerals during the COVID-19 pandemic is having a profound impact on grieving processes and the funeral industry, according to a new scoping review from the University of Toronto published online ...
Sep 30, 2021
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Health
How specialist palliative care services around the world coped in response to COVID-19
Specialist palliative care services have been flexible, highly adaptive and have embraced a low-cost "frugal innovation" model in response to the COVID-19 pandemic say researchers.
Mar 23, 2021
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Medical economics
Costs to informal carers for people in the last three months of life are large
Findings from an international study into the costs and outcomes of informal end of life care have today been published BMC Medicine.
Nov 5, 2020
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Health
New palliative care model shown to reduce costs without compromising on quality of care
Findings from a large-scale clinical trial testing a new palliative care model have shown to be lower cost, viewed positively by patients and their carers while showing no difference in patient-reported outcomes when compared ...
Aug 28, 2020
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Explaining the difference between palliative care and euthanasia
There is a continuing need to increase public awareness of palliative care and clarify misperceptions about its differentiation from voluntary assisted dying, according to the authors of a Perspective published online today ...
Aug 24, 2020
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