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Psychosocial Distress Screening Among Interprofessional Palliative Care Teams: A Narrative Review
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2024 Apr 23:1-24. doi: 10.1080/15524256.2024.2343052. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTWith increased need for palliative care and limited staffing resources, non-social workers are increasingly responsible for screening for urgent psychosocial distress. The National Consensus Project guidelines call for all palliative care team members to be competent in screening across domains. Yet, in contrast to an abundance of evidence-informed tools for palliative social work assessments, standardization for interprofessional psychosocial screening is lacking. This lack of standardized practice may lea...
Source: Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care - April 23, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Chelsea K Brown Cara L Wallace Source Type: research

Dreams in Gojoseon
J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care. 2024 Apr 23:1. doi: 10.1080/15524256.2024.2346110. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38652753 | DOI:10.1080/15524256.2024.2346110 (Source: Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care)
Source: Journal of Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care - April 23, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Janice Kim Source Type: research

Metabolomic Analysis of Human Cirrhosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Pilot Study
ConclusionOur findings give promising insides into the metabolic changes during HCC carcinogenesis and provide candidate biomarkers for future studies. Campesterol and furoylglycine in particular were identified as possible biomarkers for HCC progression. Moreover, eight metabolites were detected as predictors for poor overall survival.Graphical Abstract (Source: Digestive Diseases and Sciences)
Source: Digestive Diseases and Sciences - April 23, 2024 Category: Gastroenterology Source Type: research

Palliative Interventions and Best Supportive Care in Biliary Malignancy
Biliary malignancy is rare, often carries poor prognosis, and most patients are not resection candidates at diagnosis. There are a variety of endoscopic, percutaneous, and systemic treatments that are used to address the symptoms and complications of biliary malignancy. Additionally, best supportive care and palliative care should be incorporated into care plans early on in a patient ’s course. It is important for all physicians to be equipped to have conversations regarding overall prognosis, general expectations, and goals of care to determine a care plan individualized for each patient. (Source: Surgical Clinics of North America)
Source: Surgical Clinics of North America - April 23, 2024 Category: Surgery Authors: Christine Chung, Lauren Wancata Source Type: research

Chinese and Belgian pediatricians ’ perspectives toward pediatric palliative care: an online survey
As pediatricians play a vital role in pediatric palliative care (PPC), understanding their perspectives toward PPC is important. PPC is established for a long time in Belgium, but has a shorter tradition in Ch... (Source: BMC Palliative Care)
Source: BMC Palliative Care - April 23, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Yajing Zhong, Alice Cavolo, Veerle Labarque, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterl é and Chris Gastmans Tags: Research Source Type: research

Patient concerns and palliative psychology interventions within an inpatient palliative care service
CONCLUSION: The study results show that palliative psychologists play an important role in inpatient palliative care teams and should be involved as early as possible in the course of the disease. There is a need for improvement, especially in the palliative psychological care of non-oncological patients.PMID:38648798 | DOI:10.1055/a-2279-1024 (Source: PPmP Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie)
Source: PPmP Psychotherapie Psychosomatik Medizinische Psychologie - April 22, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Paula Oberth Markus Neuschulz Jochen Ernst D örte Schotte Sven Bercker Sebastian Stehr Antje Lehmann-Laue Anja Mehnert-Theuerkauf Source Type: research

WITHDRAWAL - Administrative Duplicate Publication: Tribute to Derek Doyle and Cynthia Goh
Palliat Med. 2024 Apr 22:2692163241243121. doi: 10.1177/02692163241243121. Online ahead of print.NO ABSTRACTPMID:38646994 | DOI:10.1177/02692163241243121 (Source: Palliative Medicine)
Source: Palliative Medicine - April 22, 2024 Category: Palliative Care Source Type: research