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December 2, 2019
Evaluation of a palliative care program for nursing homes in 7 countries: the PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31710345To investigate the effect of the Palliative Care for Older People (PACE) Steps to Success Program on resident and staff outcomes.
December 2, 2019
Japan health ministry withdraws end-of-life care poster campaign after online backlash
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191127/p2a/00m/0na/008000cACP, also known informally as “the life meeting,” is a ministry effort that seeks to get people and their families to speak to doctors and others […]
December 2, 2019
Do physicians require consent to withhold CPR that they determine to be non-beneficial? (James Downer)
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/47/E1289In the past few years, Ontario has made international news because of a series of landmark legal cases involving end-of-life conflicts.
November 25, 2019
‘Confessions of a reluctant caregiver’ palliative educational program: the results of a survey assessing physicians’ perceptions of drama-based education for end-of-life care
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13187-019-01655-7Inadequate palliative care training in medical education is associated with many physicians feeling unprepared to care for dying patients and their families.
November 25, 2019
Doctors question ability of patients to make complex medical decisions in advance
https://www.northerndailyleader.com.au/story/6495590/are-you-too-dumb-to-make-an-advance-care-directive-some-doctors-think-so/Australian doctors sometimes ignore advance care directives not believing in the ability of non-medically trained patients to make complex medical decisions for themselves in advance, according […]
November 25, 2019
Palliative care models in long-term care (Kaasalainen, Sussman, You)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31714204The goal of this scoping review was to identify existing palliative models in long-term care (LTC) homes and differentiate between the key components of each in […]