ReviewPostgraduate medical journal2007
"Please, I want to go home": ethical issues raised when considering choice of place of care in palliative care.
Review in Postgraduate medical journal, 2007. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06615349 (DigiPall; a Randomized Controlled Trial of Digital Patient Reported Outcome and Biomarker Monitoring in Palliative Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 15 papers.
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DigiPall; a Randomized Controlled Trial of Digital Patient Reported Outcome and Biomarker Monitoring in Palliative Care
Who cites it
15 citing papers in PubMed.
- Advanced cancer patients' experience and perception of advance care planning at a university teaching hospital in Northern Tanzania.Palliative care and social practice · 2025Article
- Who Gets to Determine Whether Home Is "Unsafe" at the End of Life?Federal practitioner : for the health care professionals of the VA, DoD, and PHS · 2023Article
- Critically ill metastatic cancer patients returning home after unplanned ICU stay: an observational, multicentre retrospective study.Annals of intensive care · 2023Article
- A qualitative meta-synthesis of studies of patients' experience of exercise interventions in advanced cancer.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2023Review
- General Ward Nurses' Self-Efficacy, Ethical Behavior, and Practice of Discharge Planning for End-Stage Cancer Patients: Path Analysis.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A systematic review of the prediction of hospital length of stay: Towards a unified framework.PLOS digital health · 2022Article
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- Factors related to satisfaction of cancer patients with transfer arrangements made by university hospitals at the end-of-life in Japan: a cross-sectional questionnaire survey of bereaved family members.Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer · 2021Article
- Patients' Experiences of Telehealth in Palliative Home Care: Scoping Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Article
- Adapting the Resilience Framework for Family Caregivers of Hospice Patients With Dementia.American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias · 2019Article
- Assessing Statewide All-Cause Future One-Year Mortality: Prospective Study With Implications for Quality of Life, Resource Utilization, and Medical Futility.Journal of medical Internet research · 2018Article
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- Declining body, institutional life, and making home-are they at odds? The lived experiences of moving through staged care in long-term care settings.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2015Article
- Understanding hospital admissions close to the end of life (ACE) study.BMC health services research · 2013Article
- Experiences of Caregivers in a Home-Based Palliative Care Model - A Qualitative Study.Indian journal of palliative careArticle
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Abstract
Many palliative care patients would prefer to receive care, and to die, at home. Despite this many die in institutions. In response to this, politicians and charities have adopted policies aimed at increasing the opportunities for care and death at home. The need to discuss plans for discharge with most inpatients reinforces expectations of a choice of place of care. However, many palliative patients do not have a choice of care at home. This article will explore the circumstances in which patients are unable to choose home care and consider changes in clinical practice that can help to maximise choice. We shall argue that there is a distinction between the preferences of patients and the choices actually available to them. In attempting to make this distinction we advocate consideration of the balance between the ethical principles relevant to each case.
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