29 results for palliative care

• Palliative Care - Recommendations

  Recommendations Five Tests and Treatments to Question Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians Don’t delay palliative care for a patient with serious illness who has physical, psychological, social or spiritual…

• Nursing - Recommendations

  …of care, including integrating a palliative approach to care.   Sources: Lemoyne, S.E., Herbots, H.H., De Blick, D. et al. Appropriateness of transferring nursing home residents to emergency departments: a…

• Oncology - Recommendations

  …palliative care.   Sources: Delgado-Guay MO, et al. Symptom distress, interventions, and outcomes of intensive care unit cancer patients referred to a palliative care consult team. Cancer. 2009 Jan 15;115(2):437-45….

• Palliative Care

  Support at any time during a serious illness. Support at any time during a serious illness. What is palliative care? What is palliative care? Palliative care is an added layer…

• Burns - Recommendations

  …of care. All patients should have a goals of care discussion (between the health care team and the patient and/or substitute decision maker) during the first 48 hours of their…

• Rheumatology - Recommendations

  …29509867. Don’t delay or avoid palliative symptom management and advance care planning for a patient with life-limiting rheumatic disease because they are pursuing disease-directed treatment. A palliative approach to care…

• Internal Medicine - Recommendations

  …PMID: 22513904. Hebert PC, et al. A multicenter, randomized, controlled clinical trial of transfusion requirements in critical care. Transfusion requirements in critical care investigators, Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. N…

• Rural Medicine - Recommendations

  …to a facility far from their friends and family without considering if their goals of care can be achieved locally. Advanced care planning is an important part of primary care…

• Agenda

  …the country. This session will feature projects on Choosing Wisely in hospitals. Don’t delay Palliative Care – Real-world Cancer and Palliative Care Integration Dr. Jessica Simon and Dr. Aynharan Sinnarajah,…

• Choosing Wisely Canada's National Meeting 2024

  …Wisely in hospitals. Don’t delay Palliative Care – Real-world Cancer and Palliative Care Integration Dr. Jessica Simon and Dr. Aynharan Sinnarajah, Alberta Health Services Reducing Unnecessary Urine Drug Screen Testing…