P Saraswathi Devi
P Saraswathi Devi
In the trajectory of disease progress and treatment plan, patients and the family members are confronted with challenging situations like unsurmountable physical distress, inadequate coping patterns, unanswered spiritual issues in the backg...
Training programs in communication skills for health care professionals and volunteers [0.03%]
针对医疗保健专业人员和志愿者的交流技能培训项目
Kc Rajashree
Kc Rajashree
Communication skills are as important as vital needs. Health care professionals have to be aware of their own communication practices and need to undergo periodic appraisal of the same. Training programmes in communication skills are unfort...
From Editor's Desk [0.03%]
编者来信
Sushma Bhatnagar
Sushma Bhatnagar
Aggressive palliative surgery in metastatic phyllodes tumor: impact on quality of life [0.03%]
侵袭性姑息性手术在叶状肿瘤转移中的作用：对生活质量的影响
A S Kapali,M Singh,Svs Deo et al.
A S Kapali et al.
Metastatic phyllodes tumor has very few treatment options. Phyllodes tumor in metastatic setting has limited role of surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy or combined treatment. Most of the patients receive symptomatic management only. We ...
Darshit A Thaker,Bruce C Stafford,Luke S Gaffney
Darshit A Thaker
Mr. P was a 57-year-old man who presented with symptoms of bowel obstruction in the setting of a known metastatic pancreatic cancer. Diagnosis of malignant bowel obstruction was made clinically and radiologically and he was treated conserva...
Caring for dying and meeting death: experiences of Iranian and Swedish nurses [0.03%]
伊朗和瑞典护士的临终关怀体验
Sedigheh Iranmanesh,Karin Axelsson,Stefan Sävenstedt et al.
Sedigheh Iranmanesh et al.
Objective: Our world is rapidly becoming a global community, which creates a need to further understand the universal phenomena of death and professional caring for dying persons. This study thus was conducted to describe...
Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa,Sukhwinder Kaur Bajwa,Jasbir Kaur
Sukhminder Jit Singh Bajwa
Background and context: Treatment of terminally ill cancer patients always poses great challenges especially when these critical patients are admitted in intensive care unit (ICU). The severity of their diseases throws a ...
Occupational care giving conditions and human rights: a study of elderly caregivers in botswana [0.03%]
照料职业条件与人权：以博茨瓦纳老年护理人员为例的研究
Simon Kangethe
Simon Kangethe
The article aims to explore and discuss the occupational care giving conditions pitting them against human rights. The article's objective is to initiate discussions and generate literature pertaining to occupational care giving load and as...
Rani P Mol
Rani P Mol
The palliative doctor gives the 'touch of God' as he/she takes care of the terminally ill patient. The oncologist encounters great difficulties in managing oral cavity problems of these patients. A trained dental doctor can help other docto...
Preventive palliation in the elderly - organizing health camps for the rural aged [0.03%]
老年人的预防性姑息治疗-为农村老年人组织健康营
Abhijit Dam,Nivedita Datta,Usha Rani Mohanty et al.
Abhijit Dam et al.
Most of the needs of elders for support and assistance in the later stages of life are fulfilled by informal helpers. The position of a large number of older persons has become vulnerable due to which it cannot be taken for granted that the...