Mehrnoush Mirhosseini

Interventions for Grieving and Bereaved Informal Caregivers: A Scoping Review of the Canadian Literature

Carly Thrower, Carol Barrie, Sharon Baxter, Meryl Bloom et autres

Background: The palliative approach to care is playing a larger role in the healthcare of older adults in Canada. Within (hospice) palliative care, informal caregivers play a crucial role as part of the interdisciplinary care team. Ensuring high quality palliative care includes …

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Support for Informal Caregivers in Canada: A Scoping Review from a Hospice and Palliative/End-of-Life Care Lens

Andrew C. T. Wan, Elaine Y. L. Lung, Ankita Ankita, Zoey Li et autres

Objective: Informal caregivers (ICs) providing care for those at the end-of-life face physical, psycho-social, emotional, and/or financial challenges. However, there is a paucity of research towards the effectiveness of available interventions for this vulnerable population. The purpose of this scoping review was …

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The Grief and Bereavement Experiences of Informal Caregivers: A Scoping Review of the North American Literature

Neerjah Skantharajah, Carol Barrie, Sharon Baxter, Maria Carolina Borja et autres

Background: Informal caregivers are a significant part of the hospice and palliative care landscape as members of the interdisciplinary care team. Despite this, little is known about the impact this responsibility has on informal caregivers’ experiences of grief and bereavement. Objective: To …

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Informal Caregiving for People With Life-Limiting Illness: Exploring the Knowledge Gaps

Elaine Y. L. Lung, Andrew C. T. Wan, Ankita Ankita, Sharon Baxter et autres

Background: People with life-limiting illness are increasingly having more care provided to them by informal caregivers (ICs) such as family members and friends. Although there is a substantial amount of literature surrounding informal caregiving, there is a paucity of research from a …

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Gaps in Hospice and Palliative Care Research: A Scoping Review of the North American Literature

Rebecca Antonacci, Carol Barrie, Sharon Baxter, Sarah Chaffey et autres

BACKGROUND: The demand for hospice and palliative care is growing as a result of the increase of an aging population, which is most prominent in North America. Despite the importance of the topic and an increase in hospice and palliative care utilization, …

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Screening and Initiating Supportive Care in Patients With Heart Failure

Quynh Nguyen, Kaiming Wang, Anish Nikhanj, Dale Chen-Song et autres

Background: Patients with heart failure (HF) experience a major symptom burden and an overall reduction of quality of life. However supportive care (SC) remains an under-utilized resource for these patients. Among the many existing barriers to integrating SC into routine care, identifying …

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SUPPORTIVE CARE IN HEART FAILURE: ESTABLISHING A NEW INTEGRATIVE CARE INITIATIVE

Quang Nhat Nguyen, B. Wang, Dale Chen-Song, Anish Nikhanj et autres

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A metasynthesis study of family caregivers’ transition experiences caring for community-dwelling persons with advanced cancer at the end of life

Wendy Duggleby, Jamie Tycholiz, Lorraine F. Holtslander, PETER L. HUDSON et autres

BACKGROUND: Family caregivers (broadly defined as family and friends) experience multiple concurrent transitions when caring for a person with advanced cancer. AIMS: To (a) explore the transition experience of family caregivers caring for persons with advanced cancer living in the community, (b) …

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Clinician prediction survival of end stage non-cancer patients

V. Thai, Sunita Ghosh, Yoko Tarumi, Gary Wolch et autres

Objectives: Single, program wide multi-site prospective study examining the (1) accuracy of non-cancer clinician prediction survival (CPS) by palliative practitioners on 1st assessment. (2) Factors affecting CPS; (3) potential impact on clinical care.Design and methods: Single, program wide multi-site prospective study (n …

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Conversion of Karnofsky Performance Status (Kps) and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Performance Status (Ecog) to Palliative Performance Scale (Pps), and the interchangeability of Pps and Kps in Prognostic Tools

Ingrid de Kock, Mehrnoush Mirhosseini, FRANCIS Y. K. LAU, Vincent Thai et autres

AIM: The aim of our study was to assess whether the Karnofsky Performance Status (KPS), the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status, and the Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) are interchangeable individually or within two prognostic tools: the Palliative Prognostic Score (PaP) …

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Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol may palliate altered chemosensory perception in cancer patients: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot trial

Tristin Dawne Brisbois, Ingrid Heila de Kock, Sharon Watanabe, Mehrnoush Mirhosseini et autres

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Parenteral Nutrition in Patients with Advanced Cancer #190

Mehrnoush Mirhosseini, Robin L. Fainsinger

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