Palliative care units are centers where comprehensive care is provided, primarily by nurses, but also by informal caregivers who are usually the patients’ relatives. The difference is that nurses ...

and a cancer care delivery system that often fails to be patient centered. While interventions have historically concentrated on the individual, psychosocial mechanisms that characterize the ...

Aim We examined the relationship between caregivers’ time spent caregiving and the following psychological outcomes ... will be critical as the caregiving burden among family caregivers increases.

This is despite our understanding that when an athlete sustains an injury it has psychosocial as well as physical impacts. Psychosocial factors have been suggested as prognostic influences on the ...

Children with food allergy face a substantial psychosocial ... 0.22). Caregivers of children born in the U.S. also had significantly greater expectations of adverse food allergy outcomes than ...

Donna Austin, an advanced critical care practitioner at University Hospital Southampton pediatric intensive care unit, said ... has been the greatest outcomes from us participating in the ...

Front: Ronel Jansen (human resources business partner), Mirriam Marumo (adult ICU unit manger), Sandy Deonarain (doctor r Mediclinic Highveld opened its new adult critical care unit (CCU ...

Objective To examine the cost-effectiveness of nurse-led stroke aftercare addressing psychosocial outcome at 6 months post stroke ... and significantly higher unit costs were observed for informal ...

1 Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Calgary and Alberta Health Services—Calgary ... and discharge destination (eg, high dependency step down unit, hospital ward, etc). Outcome ...

Infection is one of the most serious challenges in the intensive care unit (ICU). According to data from a global multi-center cross-sectional ... Any disease, if detected and treated early, will lead ...

Regardless of sociodemographic or clinical characteristics, children with food allergy face a significant psychosocial burden, according to a survey of caregivers published in The Journal of ...

Knowledge about caregivers’ needs might support implementation of ACP interventions suitable to both care recipients and their caregivers. Objective To explore the experiences and attitudes of ...