Andrew Courtwright,Theresa Raphael-Grimm,Frances Collichio Andrew Courtwright

Hospice care for inmates is widely recognized as an important way of providing efficient, cost-effective palliative care to a growing number of dying inmates. The case presented here is of a 34-year-old inmate who was admitted to a tertiary...

Ashish Mazumdar,Seema Mishra,Sushma Bhatnagar et al. Ashish Mazumdar et al.

Morphine is the preferred strong opioid analgesic. Most of the adverse effects, such as daytime drowsiness, dizziness, mental clouding, and effects on cognitive and psychomotor function or nausea and vomiting, usually resolve with time. The...

Paul Rousseau Paul Rousseau

Peter Brink,Trevor Frise Smith Peter Brink

Many terminally ill patients are given the choice to die at home. This study identified determinants of home death among patients receiving palliative home care. Health information was collected using the interRAI palliative care assessment...

Julius G Goepp,Simon Meykler,Nancy E Mooney et al. Julius G Goepp et al.

Palliative care remains underutilized in the United States. This may represent failure of translation of research into practice (diffusion of innovation). Qualitative methods can identify barriers to and facilitators of diffusion of innovat...

Paul J Moon Paul J Moon

Conversations between physicians and their patients concerning terminal conditions are undoubtedly an uneasy process. These conversations are referred in this article as death-talks. Death-talks are social engagements among meaning-making h...

Leanna J Standish,Leila Kozak,Sean Congdon Leanna J Standish

Acupuncture is a complementary and alternative medical modality. A considerable body of acupuncture research has accumulated since 1998. Acupuncture has been integrated into palliative care settings in the United Kingdom but is yet to be wi...

Melanie Kaufer,Patricia Murphy,Kris Barker et al. Melanie Kaufer et al.

This study examined family satisfaction with end-of-life care in a medical intensive care unit (MICU) before and after a palliative care intervention was implemented there. This intervention consisted of early communication, family meetings...

Ann Rathbun,Leslie A Thornton,Jamie E Fox Ann Rathbun

The purpose of this article is to discuss the findings of a study that examined bereavement materials for reading level. The main research question for the study was: are printed hospice bereavement materials written at an eighth grade leve...

Alexander K Smith,Daniela Ladner,Ellen P McCarthy Alexander K Smith

Despite well-documented racial/ethnic disparities in liver transplantation and hospice enrollment, reasons for these disparities are unclear. This study was conducted to elucidate what is known and unknown about the underlying causes of rac...