Primary Palliative Care in the Emergency Department and Acute Care Setting [0.03%]
急诊科和急性护理设置中的一线姑息治疗
Satheesh Gunaga,Jonathan Zygowiec
Satheesh Gunaga
Amidst a global COVID pandemic, the palliative care community and healthcare systems around the country continue to explore opportunities to improve early patient and family access to end-of-life care resources. They need not look any furth...
Grief, Loss and Bereavement. Understanding Concepts, Clinical Manifestations and Cultural Considerations at End of Life [0.03%]
哀伤、丧失和悼念：理解终末期的概念、临床表现和文化考量
Kimberly Shapiro
Kimberly Shapiro
The weight of grief is heavy on both patients with terminal illness, and their loved ones. We are now aware that grief is not limited to the time of death-grief reactions begin to occur at the time of diagnosis of terminal illness and evolv...
Alan Elbaum,Lucia Kinsey,Jeffrey Mariano
Alan Elbaum
This chapter surveys the range of different orientations toward decision-making, common clinical scenarios, and considerations to bear in mind when caring for culturally diverse patients at the end of life. While this chapter draws on the c...
Advance Care Planning Conversations: Laying the Foundation for Goal-Concordant Care at End of Life [0.03%]
临终关怀中的预护理计划对话：奠定符合患者意愿的护理基础
Abigail Nathanson,Shirley Otis-Green
Abigail Nathanson
The delivery of culturally congruent, person-centered, family-focused quality care requires an exploration of the values, beliefs, and preferences of those we serve [13]. Nuanced advance care planning conversations lay the foundation for sh...
Demystifying Prognosis : Understanding the Science and Art of Prognostication [0.03%]
拨开预测疗效的迷雾：理解预测评估的科学与艺术
Shauna Gibbons,Christian T Sinclair
Shauna Gibbons
The science of prognostication is emerging as a vital part of providing goal concordant patient care. Historically, modern medicine has tended to shy away from approaching prognostication as a core clinical skill, and prognosis as something...
Discussing Difficult News: Reframing Patient and Family Preferences Surrounding the Content and Style of Communication [0.03%]
讨论棘手的医疗信息：换个方式与患者及其家属交流内容和风格的意见
Eric Goodlev
Eric Goodlev
Uncomfortable conversations transcend medicine across all sites of care and at all stages of a serious illness. From discussion of prognosis or prognostic uncertainty, to evaluation of competing treatment options, to disclosure of medical e...
Tracy Lynch,Kristina De Corpo
Tracy Lynch
This communication model attempts to reconcile the unknowingness of death, with a deeper inner knowingness that supports End of Life patients in an empowered way, through a mindset that models both oneness and presence with the death and dy...
Noah Pujanes-Mantor,Sorin Buga
Noah Pujanes-Mantor
This chapter examines the need and importance of cultural competency in providing End of Life care. The United States is diverse in culture. As we evolve into a multiethnic society, our healthcare providers must be able to manage this shift...
Bernie White,Mariela Gallo,Alexsandra Morales
Bernie White
As humanity continues to evolve, so do new treatments and the need to continually reevaluate and improve health care delivery. Cultural competency is at the core of improving health care delivery. However, cultural competency has proven to ...
Benjamin Djulbegovic,Iztok Hozo
Benjamin Djulbegovic
In this chapter, we discuss the potential role that artificial intelligence (AI) may have in medical decision-making, the pros and cons, and the limitations and biases that might be introduced when using these novel techniques. As computing...