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Integrated Palliative Cancer Care: From an Interdisciplinary Perspective
The spread of cancer is, particularly, in the advanced stages, so wide that symptoms related to multiple systems are present, along with increasing...
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The Implementation of an Integrated Oral Care Protocol for Pediatric Cancer Patients: a Qualitative Study
AimIn this study, we evaluated the impact of an integrated oral care protocol for pediatric patients undergoing antineoplastic treatment from the...
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Advance Care Planning in Palliative Care
Advance care planning is a person-centered process to enable a person to express their preferences for future health care. Advance care planning is...
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Integrated Approaches to Testing and Assessment (IATA) for Safety of Cosmetics and Personal Care Products
Cosmetics and personal care products induce skin sensitization, and allergies are very common skin-related issues in people worldwide. Therefore,...
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Nursing and Palliative Care
Exemplary nursing is integral to meeting the growing demand for palliative care. Driven by population aging and the increasing burden of chronic,...
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Spirituality in Palliative Care
Patients who are confronted with a life-threatening disease may experience the limits of their existence. In many patients, this confrontation...
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Self-Care of Health Professionals in a Palliative Care Environment
Working in palliative care can be intensely demanding yet enormously rewarding. To enable health professionals to actively engage in this field of...
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Microfluidic Point-of-Care Devices
The provision of healthcare has been revolutionized by the development of microfluidic point-of-care (POC) devices as revolutionary tools in medical...
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Organization of Palliative Care in Different Parts of the World
Palliative care has developed rapidly and heterogeneously in the past decade around the globe. In this chapter, we present an overview of palliative...
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Switching from Biologic to Biosimilar Products: Insight from an Integrated Health Care System
Biologics are indicated for the treatment of a wide range of conditions and have transformed care in several therapeutic areas; however, they are...
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Family-Focused Palliative Care
A family-focused care approach in palliative care recognizes the fundamental role of families in contributing to the care of people with...
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Approach and Nature of Palliative Care
Caring for people who are near the end of life has a relatively short timeframe as a specialist health care activity. In this chapter, the history of...
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A survey of genetic and palliative care health professionals’ views of integrating genetics into palliative care
Genetic counselling and testing have utility for people with palliative care needs and their families. However, genetic and palliative care health...
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Global Aspects of Palliative Care
In this chapter, we look at the growth of modern palliative care globally from its humble beginnings to finally becoming part of mainstream health...
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Accessing Palliative Care: Challenges and Opportunities
Access to palliative services is significant issue facing policymakers around the globe. Much of this discussion is centered on the important...
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Palliative Care and Stroke
There have been significant advances in the prevention and management of stroke over the last few decades. Despite these important developments,...
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Genomes in clinical care
In the era of precision medicine, genome sequencing (GS) has become more affordable and the importance of genomics and multi-omics in clinical care...
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Integrating Social Determinants into Health Care
Health disparities indicate underlying societal, economic, geographic, and political disadvantages that impact access to opportunities, support...
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Evaluation of approaches to recruitment of racially and ethnically diverse breast cancer patients from an integrated health care setting for collection of observational social network data
PurposeWe compared approaches to recruitment of diverse women with breast cancer in a study designed to collect complex social network data.
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Advancing Rheumatology Care Through Machine Learning
Rheumatologic diseases are marked by their complexity, involving immune-, metabolic- and mechanically mediated processes which can affect different...
