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BMC Palliative Care

Ausgabe 1/2012

Inhalt (26 Artikel)

Open Access Research article

Outcomes 'out of africa': the selection and implementation of outcome measures for palliative care in Africa

Julia Downing, Steffen T Simon, Faith N Mwangi-Powell, Hamid Benalia, Barbara A Daveson, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding, Claudia Bausewein

Open Access Research article

Autonomic dysfunction in patients with advanced cancer; prevalence, clinical correlates and challenges in assessment

Carol A Stone, Rose Anne Kenny, Brid Nolan, Peter G Lawlor

Open Access Study protocol

A region-based palliative care intervention trial using the mixed-method approach: Japan OPTIM study

Tatsuya Morita, Mitsunori Miyashita, Akemi Yamagishi, Nobuya Akizuki, Yoshiyuki Kizawa, Yutaka Shirahige, Miki Akiyama, Kei Hirai, Motohiro Matoba, Masako Yamada, Taketoshi Matsumoto, Takuhiro Yamaguchi, Kenji Eguchi

Open Access Research article

Assessment of the face validity of two pain scales in Kenya: a validation study using cognitive interviewing

Kristin TL Huang, Claudio Owino, Rachel C Vreeman, Mildred Hagembe, Festus Njuguna, R Matthew Strother, Gregory P Gramelspacher

Open Access Study protocol

Developing and testing a strategy to enhance a palliative approach and care continuity for people who have dementia: study overview and protocol

Christine Toye, Andrew L Robinson, Moyez Jiwa, Sharon Andrews, Fran McInerney, Barbara Horner, Kristi Holloway, Brigit Stratton

Open Access Research article

A national study of chaplaincy services and end-of-life outcomes

Kevin J Flannelly, Linda L Emanuel, George F Handzo, Kathleen Galek, Nava R Silton, Melissa Carlson

Open Access Research article

An online survey of Australian physicians reported practice with the off-label use of nebulised frusemide

Phillip J Newton, Patricia M Davidson, Christine Sanderson

Open Access Research article

Under-diagnosis of pain by primary physicians and late referral to a palliative care team

Masako Akashi, Eiji Yano, Etsuko Aruga

Open Access Research article

Home and community based care program assessment for people living with HIV/AIDS in Arba Minch, Southern Ethiopia

Taddese Alemu Zerfu, Yaliso Yaya, Selamawit Dagne, Kebede Deribe, Horacio Ruiseñor-Escudero, Sibhatu Biadgilign

Open Access Study protocol

Evaluation of a hospice rapid response community service: a controlled evaluation

Claire Butler, Laura M Holdsworth, Simon Coulton, Heather Gage

Open Access Research article

The broad spectrum of unbearable suffering in end-of-life cancer studied in dutch primary care

Cees DM Ruijs, Ad JFM Kerkhof, Gerrit van der Wal, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

Open Access Correspondence

The ACA training programme to improve communication between general practitioners and their palliative care patients: development and applicability

Willemjan Slort, Annette H Blankenstein, Bernardina S Wanrooij, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Luc Deliens

Open Access Research article

After you: conversations between patients and healthcare professionals in planning for end of life care

Kathryn Almack, Karen Cox, Nima Moghaddam, Kristian Pollock, Jane Seymour

Open Access Study protocol

Is dignity therapy feasible to enhance the end of life experience for people with motor neurone disease and their family carers?

Brenda Bentley, Samar M Aoun, Moira O’Connor, Lauren J Breen, Harvey Max Chochinov

Open Access Study protocol

Electronic monitoring of symptoms and syndromes associated with cancer: methods of a randomized controlled trial SAKK 95/06 E-MOSAIC

David Blum, Dieter Koeberle, Karin Ribi, Shu-Fang Hsu Schmitz, Urs Utiger, Dirk Klingbiel, Florian Strasser

Open Access Research article

Perspectives on care and communication involving incurably ill Turkish and Moroccan patients, relatives and professionals: a systematic literature review

Fuusje M de Graaff, Patriek Mistiaen, Walter LJM Devillé, Anneke L Francke

Open Access Review

Clinical aspects of palliative care in advanced Parkinson’s disease

Johan Lokk, Ahmad Delbari

Open Access Research article

Parental palliative cancer: psychosocial adjustment and health-related quality of life in adolescents participating in a German family counselling service

Franziska Kühne, Thomas Krattenmacher, Corinna Bergelt, Johanna C Ernst, Hans-Henning Flechtner, Daniel Führer, Wolfgang Herzog, Kai v Klitzing, Georg Romer, Birgit Möller

Open Access Study protocol

The perspectives of bereaved family carers on dying at home: the study protocol of ‘unpacking the home: family carers’ reflections on dying at home

Sheila Payne, Sarah Brearley, Christine Milligan, David Seamark, Carol Thomas, Xu Wang, Susan Blake, Mary Turner

Open Access Research article

Using respiratory rate and thoracic movement to assess respiratory insufficiency in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a preliminary study

Waltteri Siirala, Tarja Saaresranta, Arno Vuori, Sanna Salanterä, Klaus T Olkkola, Riku Aantaa

Open Access Research article

Palliative patients cared for at home by PAMINO-trained and other GPs – health-related quality of life as measured by QLQ-C15-PAL and POS

Katja Hermann, Peter Engeser, Joachim Szecsenyi, Antje Miksch

Open Access Research article

Older patients’ attitudes towards and experiences of patient-physician end-of-life communication: a secondary analysis of interviews from British, Dutch and Belgian patients

Natalie Evans, H Roeline W Pasman, Sheila A Payne, Jane Seymour, Sabine Pleschberger, Reginald Deschepper, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen

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