The best chance of cure for patients with liver cancer is surgical removal, but many tumors are too large or invasive. In addition, chemotherapy is frequently unsuccessful in this patient population. A case study is featured involving a patient determined to be a candidate for Yttrium-90...

Purpose/Objectives: To explore nurses’ and physicians’ experiences with the ars moriendi model (AMM) for spiritual assessment. Design: Convergent, parallel, mixed-methods. Setting: Palliative home care in Belgium. Sample: 17 nurses and 4 family physicians (FPs) in the quantitative phase, and 19...

What is the evidence for the benefit of palliative pharmacologic sedation on quality of life, survival, and specific refractory symptoms in terminally ill adults during their last few days of life?

Purpose/Objectives: To evaluate the level of agreement of symptom assessment among older adult palliative patients with cancer, nurses, and patients’ proxies. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Two general hospitals in Flanders, Belgium. Sample: 120 palliative patients with cancer, aged 65...