CommentA need for scalable outpatient palliative care interventions
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2019, Veterinary Clinics of North America - Small Animal PracticeCitation Excerpt :Palliative care is now struggling with such broad acceptance of its importance in good health care that a recent estimate lists the workforce at approximately 11% of what is needed in the United States.5 There is intense research and written commentary devoted to managing the growing crisis of scarcity in palliative services.4–7 Veterinary medicine requires cultural shifts and acquisition of knowledge before we face major issues about models of delivery and scarcity.
Translation and Evaluation of a Lung Cancer, Palliative Care Intervention for Community Practice
2018, Journal of Pain and Symptom ManagementCitation Excerpt :Distress and burden did not differ over time by groups with the exception of the subjective demand subscale where the scores changed in an unexpected direction. Translating and evaluating evidence-based PC interventions generated from specialty care centers to community settings is a high priority for the field and practice of PC. 15–17 The major finding of this quasi-experimental study conducted at three community oncology practices is that a brief, nurse-led palliative care intervention provided to patients with Stage 2–4 NSCLC and their FCGs was associated with significant, clinically important18 improvements in patients' overall quality of life over three months compared to usual care.
Translating a US early palliative care model for Turkey and Singapore
2018, Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology NursingCitation Excerpt :Palliative care needs to be available to patients and families in all settings where they receive care including home, outpatient clinics, acute care facilities, palliative care units, inpatient hospices, and nursing homes.7 However, the current situation for availability and delivery of palliative care challenges widespread implementation problems.8,9,10 There is a need for new care delivery models, one that will integrate the different components of care.
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