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Lung cancer survivors often suffer from physical, emotional and social long-term effects of disease and treatment. Caregivers are also affected by the cancer diagnosis throughout the course of the disease and ...
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Mitigation of climate change requires that new routes for the production of fuels and chemicals be as oil-independent as possible. The microbial conversion of lignocellulosic feedstocks into terpene-based biof...
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Open AccessHealth care professionals’ attitudes regarding palliative care for patients with chronic heart failure: an interview study
Even though struggling with similar symptom burden, patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) receive less palliative care than patients suffering from malignant diseases. Researchers have found that this migh...
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End-of-life care is an essential element of quality cancer care. Nevertheless, a majority of physicians and nurses working at cancer centers feel unprepared for this task. As part of a larger survey study, we ...
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Open AccessEarly Palliative Care—Health services research and implementation of sustainable changes: the study protocol of the EVI project
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Die Stärkung schwacher sozialer Interessen obliegt Sozialer Arbeit als eine ihrer genuinen Aufgaben – auch im politischen Kontext. Dieser Anspruch bricht sich jedoch bereits an der häufig thematisierten Schwie...
