BMC Palliative Care

ISSN : 1472-684X
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Development and validation of the quality care questionnaire –palliative care (QCQ-PC): patient-reported assessment of quality of palliative care
BACKGROUND: In this study, we aimed to develop and validate an instrument that could be used by patients with cancer …
2018 Open Access
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Multidimensional needs of patients living and dying with heart failure in Kenya: a serial interview study
BACKGROUND: Heart failure is an emerging challenge for Sub Saharan Africa. However, research on patients' needs and experiences of care …
2018 Open Access
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“I always tried to forget about the condition and pretend I was healed”: coping with cervical cancer in rural Ghana
BACKGROUND: Cervical cancer is a very common disease among women in Ghana and in the world as a whole. However, …
2018 Open Access
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Twenty years of home-based palliative care in Malappuram, Kerala, India: a descriptive study of patients and their care-givers
BACKGROUND: The well lauded community-based palliative care programme of Kerala, India provides medical and social support, through home-based care, for …
2018 Open Access
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Rehabilitation for cancer patients at Black Lion hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: In Ethiopia, there were greater than 2000 adult and 200 pediatric cancer patients annually in 2010, but the estimated …
2017 Open Access
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Socio-cultural contexts of end- of- life conversations and decisions: bereaved family cancer caregivers’ retrospective co-constructions
BACKGROUND: End-of-life communication becomes increasingly difficult in terminal cancer, which inevitably entails conversations around dying and death. In resource-limited areas, …
2017 Open Access
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The impact of antiretroviral therapy on symptom burden among HIV outpatients with low CD4 count in rural Uganda: nested longitudinal cohort study
BACKGROUND: Individuals with HIV have a high prevalence of physical and psychological symptoms throughout their disease course. Despite the clinical …
2017 Open Access
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Factors that influence advance directives completion amongst terminally ill patients at a tertiary hospital in Kenya
BACKGROUND: An advance directive (AD) is a written or verbal document that legally stipulates a person's health care preference while …
2017 Open Access