... health care workers of the decision to withdraw life support from the critically ill JAMA 1995, 273:703-708 Vincent JL: Forgoing life support in western European intensive care units: results of ... Crit Care Med 1999, 16:1626-1633 American Thoracic Society Withholding and withdrawing lifesustaining therapy Ann Intern Med 1991, 115:478-485 The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care ... Siegler M: The illusion of futility in clinical practice Am J Med 1989, 87: 81-84 10 Burt RA: The medical futility debate: patient choice, physician obligation, and end- of- lifecare J Palliat Med...
... can measure the quality of ICU care with risk-adjusted mortality or process ofcare measures, tools are just becoming available to measure the quality of end- of- lifecare in the ICU [14] Until ... Critical Care February 2003 Vol No Rubenfeld and Curtis helping families weigh the burdens and benefits of ongoing intensive care, are essential to excellent end- of- lifecare These communication ... consensus on many aspects of end- of- lifecare in the ICU exist and have been written about at great length We should not let the exciting challenge of resolving areas of disagreement dissuade...
... American Academy of Critical Care Medicine recommendations for end- of- lifecare in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine Crit Care Med 2008, ... documentation of end- of- life decisions in European intensive care units: the ETHICUS Study Intensive Care Med 2008, 34:271-277 Hall RI, Rocker GM: End- of- lifecare in the ICU: treatments provided when life ... the endoflife Crit Care Med 2003, 31:S354-S357 Giannini A, Pessina A, Tacchi EM: End- of- life decisions in intensive care units: attitudes of physicians in an Italian urban setting Intensive Care...
... Critical Care Medicine: Recommendations for end- of- lifecare in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine Crit Care Med 2008, 36:953-963 Soares ... RG, Piva JP: End- of- lifecare in Brazil Intensive Care Med 2007, 33:1014-1017 10 Lisboa T, Friedman G: Forgoing life support in Intensive care units of South Brazil: the results of and ethical ... Duvaldestin P; Page of French RESSENTI Group: Discrepancies between perceptions by physicians and nursing staff of intensive care unit end- of- life decisions Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2003, 167:1310-1315...
... connotations of dying are organized in "good death" models The identification of possible different ideas of good death could be useful for providing the patient with correct endof -life care Methods ... medical (palliative care) literature a) Care: - Symptoms' control (pain, diarrhea, vomiting, breathlessness, etc.) - Avoiding a useless prolongation of the process of dying - Control of anxiety ... friends c) Preparation: - Awareness of diagnosis and prognosis (awareness of dying) - Choice of where to die - Maintaining a sense of control (possibility of controlling relevant aspects of one's...
... form of a lifecycle process network Each lifecycle process of the flow model has the inputs and outputs of the process (such as the income and expenditure of the process stakeholder) to allow lifecycle ... method that includes end- of- life strategy design by evaluating the product lifecycle in Distributed Object-oriented Modeling and Environment (DOME) [7] Rao et al proposed an end- of- life scenario selection ... extending product life or increasing the efficiency of recycling) as a bridge between the objective and the selection of lifecycle options Lifecycle options: The lifecycle options of a product and...
... form of a lifecycle process network Each lifecycle process of the flow model has the inputs and outputs of the process (such as the income and expenditure of the process stakeholder) to allow lifecycle ... method that includes end- of- life strategy design by evaluating the product lifecycle in Distributed Object-oriented Modeling and Environment (DOME) [7] Rao et al proposed an end- of- life scenario selection ... extending product life or increasing the efficiency of recycling) as a bridge between the objective and the selection of lifecycle options Lifecycle options: The lifecycle options of a product and...
... study of the impact of patient preferences on life- sustaining treatment and hospital cost Crit Care Med 1996, 24:1811-1817 Prendergast TJ, Claessens MT, Luce JM: A national survey of end- of- lifecare ... front pages of publications in support of demands for an extension of Leonetti’s law towards the legalisation of euthanasia, and public debate is ongoing Aspects of modern endoflifecare should ... procedure 2005-370 of April 22nd, 2005 relative to the rights of patients and at the endoflife Article 1: the article R 4127-37 of the Code of public health is replaced by the following amendments:...
... allocation of resources at the end- of- life The physician's role at the endoflife Emergency physicians face numerous challenges when managing the clinical careof patients at the end- of- life When ... individualized care for their patients Changes in the implementation ofpalliativecare can also be made in order to improve end- of- lifecare For example, Wiese et al suggest the use of a palliativecare ... the end- of- life Hospice and palliativecare Hospice and palliativecare offers many services to patients and their families in the transition towards death They function to preserve quality of life...
... - End- of- Life Design Advisor ELSEIM - End- of- Life Strategy Environmental Impact Model ELV - End- of- Life Vehicles EoL - End- of- Life EPR - Extended Producer Responsibility ERR - External Rate of ... Integrated life cycle map with the nested subtree of end- of- life option E for Part of the generic example .63 Figure 4-6: Integrated life cycle map with the nested subtree of end- of- life option ... Gap in Product End- of- Life Planning 43 2.6 Summary 44 Chapter 3: Concept for Product End- of- Life Planning .46 3.1 Requirements of the Concept for Product End- of- Life Planning...
... Quality ofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:21 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/21 Page of 14 Table Description of participating palliativecare services Site Area served Service type Source of most of funding ... have a better sense of meaning in my life now than I have had in the past OR I have less of a sense of meaning in my life now than I have had in the past 23 As the endof my life approaches, I ... L: Measuring quality of life: Who should measure quality of life? BMJ 2001, 322:1417-1420 21 Jocham HR, Dassen T, Widdershoven G, Halfens R: Quality oflife in palliativecare cancer patients:...
... The life is at the endof the road 2010 so sánh số với nước láng giềng Campuchia có 6%, Lào có 13% Thái Lan ... Công suất trục rôto tính theo công thức: P = Think green and action green Page 2 The life is at the endof the road 2010 Một số lưu ý lắp đặt tua bin gió Nói chung, tuabin gió đặt cao tốt ... lớn, tự khởi động vận tốc gió thấp từ 3m/s Think green and action green Page 3 The life i is at the end d of the roa ad 2010 0 Tiến ồn từ tu ng uabin gió c thể làm ảnh hưởng đến nhữ người...
... the backbone of our acts, a good film becomes a paradigm of morality The cinema, or life as a whole, merges with ethics as a practical reason oflife and of human habits Thus it offers specific ... careof patients and their families, while facilitating the acquirement of skills that allow the professionals to offer ethical responses to the concern and dilemmas proper to this stage oflife ... suicide of an Argentinean veteran in the Falklands war; Born on the Fourth of July (1989) by Oliver Stone, on the consequences of the Vietnam war Reviews of the suffering of veterans or victims of...
... members of the primary health care team and professionals involved in palliative care, on the role of the community palliativecare clinical nurse specialist Palliativecare is the active, total care ... symptoms or endoflifecare Their admission and ongoing care within the hospital may necessitate referral to the hospital palliativecare team The core members of the hospital palliativecare team ... services PalliativecarePalliativecare is an important part of the every-day work of most health care professionals, whether they work in the hospital or community setting The word palliative ...
... all of these reasons, quality -of- life measures enable the assessment of an important additional dimension in the evaluation of health care interventions TWELVE APPLICATIONS OF QUALITY -OF- LIFE ... Wood-Dauphinee Three Sources of Descriptive Information for Quality -of- Life Measures, Ten Review Forms for Quality -of- Life Measures, 65 83 89 Applications of Quality -of- Life Measures and Areas for ... Quality -of- Life Measures A full set of quality -of- life measures would encompass not only the types of measures just mentioned but also a wide range of internal and external attributes of the individual...
... attacks on staff Assessments of professional quality oflife were made with the Professional Quality ofLife Scale (ProQOL) [16], which is a validated development of the Compassion Fatigue Test ... administered questionnaires regarding occurrence of post traumatic stress symptoms and their professional quality oflife For assessing post traumatic stress symptoms, the PTSD Checklist, civilian version ... experienced symptomsof PSTD without being detected in this study because of its cross-sectional design Some could have had decreased symptoms, some could have left work because ofsymptoms and...
... disutility to the overall AQoL score Figure Distribution of Assessment of Quality ofLife scores Distribution of Assessment of Quality ofLife scores A sensitivity analysis with death-equivalent ... G, Richardson J, Osborne R: The Assessment of Quality ofLife (AQoL) instrument: a psychometric measure of health-related quality oflife Quality ofLife Research 1999, 8:209-24 Hawthorne G, Osborne ... Gray LC: Quality oflife assessment in the community-dwelling elderly: validation of the Assessment of Quality ofLife (AQoL) Instrument and comparison with the SF-36 Journal of Clinical Epidemiology...
... indirect effects of "care dependency" on MCS First, an increase of one standard deviation on "care dependency" is associated with a statistically significant decrease of 0.15 standard Page of (page number ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:72 http://www.hqlo.com/content/7/1/72 Figure 2final model of predicting parental HRQOL of caregivers of ... potential way to diminish the extra caregiving demands is making use of respite care Drawn up from the literature, the effect of respite care on well-being of parents of chronically ill children is...
... MVQoLI was not designed for patients with life limiting illness from the point of diagnosis to the endoflife (i.e the full range of potential palliativecare intervention) we plan to investigate ... Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2010, 8:10 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/10 Page of 10 Harding R, Stewart K, Marconi K, O’Neill JF, Higginson IJ: Current HIV/AIDS end- of- lifecare in sub-Saharan ... Quality ofLife Outcomes 2010, 8:10 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/10 diagnosis), household size, number of children responsible for, location of home (urban, peri-urban, rural), primary place of care...
... to severe symptomsof vaginal atrophy Women attended a median of six visits to their family doctors in the last year Quality ofcare and satisfaction with care (Table 4) The quality ofcare was ... Doubova Dubova et al.: Quality ofcare and healthrelated quality oflifeof climacteric stage women cared for in family medicine clinics in Mexico Health and Quality ofLife Outcomes 2010 8:20 Submit ... high HR-QoL The independent variable was quality of care, which was measured by ascertaining the percentage of recommended care received [25] This was estimated for each care process component:...