Sentences with phrase «palliative care research»

Several campaigns underway including developing a simulation - based learning centre, endowing a chair in palliative care research, creating Atlantic Canada's first academic neurosicence alliance, realigning outpatient clinics, and restoring the therapeutic pool at the QEII's Rehabilitation Centre

«We already know that coordinated, patient - centered palliative care improves care quality, enhances survival, and reduces costs for persons with cancer,» said R. Sean Morrison, MD, Director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and Professor of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and lead author of the study.

All ESMO Designated Centres had conducted palliative care research in the past three years, and pain was the most common topic.

Palliative care is a «fairly new medical specialty that has proven to substantially improve patient outcomes when it's delivered alongside routine treatments,» says Sean Morrison, M.D., director of the National Palliative Care Research Center and a professor at Mount Sinai's School of Medicine.

And last year, ECU associate dean for research and higher degrees, Linda Kristjanson, was named Australian Telstra Business Woman of the Year, in recognition of pioneering palliative care research.

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Brian S Carter, MD, FAAP Professor of Pediatrics, University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Medicine; Attending Physician, Division of Neonatology, Children's Mercy Hospital and Clinics; Faculty, Children's Mercy Bioethics Center Brian S Carter, MD, FAAP is a member of the following medical societies: Alpha Omega Alpha, American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Pediatric Society, American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Society for Pediatric Research, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Loeb and Rachel K. Wion, a nursing Ph.D. student, analyzed 19 peer - reviewed research articles about EOL or palliative care for prisoners published between 2002 and 2014.

Many patients with advanced, incurable cancer do not receive any palliative care, reveals new research to be presented later this month at the ESMO 2014 Congress in Madrid, Spain, 26 - 30 September.

«With its strong commitment to research, best practice and palliative care, ESMO has become a key partner in palliative care initiatives,» added Rolf A. Stahel, ESMO President.

Cherny concluded: «Palliative care has been a central part of ESMO's work in research, education and public health policy initiatives both in Europe and around the world.

Cherny, an oncologist and palliative medicine specialist who is chair of humanistic medicine at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre, Jerusalem, Israel, added: «The designation also indicates that the centre is not only providing a clinical service but that it has programmes developed both to push the boundaries of knowledge through research and to teach the essential skills required for the provision of palliative care to cancer patients.»

«Until now, physicians have taken a «wait and see» approach to antiviral therapies following transplantation,» says Toor, a hematologist - oncologist in the Bone Marrow Transplant Program and member of the Developmental Therapeutics research program at VCU Massey Cancer Center as well as professor in the Division of Hematology, Oncology and Palliative Care at the VCU School of Medicine.

The research, led by members from the Lien Centre for Palliative Care (LCPC), was recently accepted for publication in the journal Health Policy and will be presented on Oct. 8, 2015 at the LCPC - SHC Palliative Care Symposium.

«Future research is also needed to determine when in the course of illness palliative care is most cost - effective.»

As the health care system in the United States continues to evolve, Reynolds has witnessed a move toward more palliative care, yet research on the topic is sparse.

The research did uncover some positive findings, said VJ Periyakoil, MD, clinical associate professor of medicine at Stanford and director of the Stanford Palliative Care Education and Training Program, who was not involved with the study.

Susan C. Miller, professor (research) of health services, policy and practice in the Brown University School of Public Health and lead author of the study in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care Palliative Medicine, worked with colleagues to survey nursing directors at more than 1,900 nursing homes around the country between July 2009 and June 2010 to assess their knowledge of palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care palliative care and their facility's implementation of key palliative care palliative care practices.

A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.

Dr. Jennifer S. Temel, clinical director of thoracic oncology at Massachusetts General Hospital, alluded to the emerging research on immunotherapy in a presentation to palliative care and hospice clinicians in February.

In addition to her expert skill as a clinician, Dr. Frontera also has many research interests including identifying biomarkers and predictors of early brain injury and vasospasm / delayed cerebral ischemia after subarachnoid hemorrhage and their impact on outcome; determining the efficacy of therapeutic strategies and developing guidelines for the management of patients with intracranial hemorrhage; evaluating the cost, length of stay, quality of life, functional and cognitive outcomes in a broader population of intracranial hemorrhage patients; developing guidelines for the integration of palliative care into the intensive care unit setting; and evaluating the relationship of Zika virus infection, Guillain - Barre, and other neurologic disorders.

The program will expand clinical care, education and research opportunities related to adults with chronic debilitating disease and poise the institution as a national leader in the emerging field of palliative care.

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As leaders of policy relevant research, education and knowledge translation, we aim to make improvements across the cancer control spectrum — from prevention, screening and diagnosis to treatment, rehabilitation, survivorship or palliative care.

NINR supports and conducts clinical and basic research and research training on health and illness across the lifespan to build the scientific foundation for clinical practice, prevent disease and disability, manage and eliminate symptoms caused by illness, and improve palliative and end - of - life care.

Health organisations including the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association, the Association of Australian Medical Research Institutes, Pathology Australia, the Australian Medical Association, The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners, the Palliative Care Association the Consumers Health Forum of Australia and the Pharmacy Guild of Australia have issued welcoming statements to the new minister, outlining some of the outstanding issues in their sectors for the his attention.

Christopher: There has been limited research in «talk therapy» within palliative care, so I'm hoping to commence a PhD that explores the potential beneficial role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for palliative care patients and their families / carers.

Given the very high rates of distress in family caregivers of relatives or friends in palliative care, the research recommended all carers be screened on entry to palliative care for anxiety and depression and possibly at six months post bereavement for prolonged grief, PTSD and demoralisation.

Finally, the degree of suitability of the instruments for economic evaluations in the palliative care setting will be assessed by scoring whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care and whether items from the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL) 43 minimum standards for patient - reported outcome measures and the checklist for reporting valuation studies of multiattribute utility - based instruments (CREATE) 44 have been evaluated in this population.

With over 20 years of family practice and palliative care experience and extensive knowledge of the latest findings of leading - edge research.

Dr. Feyh has also presented on a variety of mental health topics and has published research articles focused on conduct - disordered children and pediatric palliative care.

A Family Systems Theory framework can be useful in helping health care providers, and particularly nurses, deliver optimal care to palliative cancer patients and their families and standardize the way research is done by providing an appropriate framework with which to study the family.