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ArticlePractical neurology2022

End-of-life care of people with long-term neurological conditions.

Krishnan Nair, Mark Lee, Esther Hobson, David Oliver, Emma Husbands

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Article in Practical neurology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. End-of-Life Care in an Acute Neurological Ward: A Retrospective Analysis of Clinical Practices During the Last Week of Life.The Journal of neuroscience nursing : journal of the American Association of Neuroscience Nurses
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Krishnan NairManagement, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK siva.nair@nhs.net.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4004-2315
Mark LeePalliative Medicine, South Tyneside NHS Foundation Trust, South Shields, UK.
Esther HobsonNeurosciences, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
David OliverTizard Centre, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK.
Emma HusbandsPalliative Medicine, GHNHSFT, Gloucester, UK.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Guidance and protocols of end-of-life care have been directed towards the care of patients with cancer. It is possible to extrapolate some of these to people with long-term neurological conditions, but there are obvious differences. Neurological conditions have widely different time courses of progression, making the timing of these discussions challenging. The common issues around end-of-life care include knowing when to start discussions, approaching advance planning, managing common symptoms, diagnosing the dying phase, withdrawing life-sustaining treatments, providing support for family and carers and judging how to involve specialist palliative care teams. End-of-life care needs close collaboration between neurology, specialist palliative care and general practice.

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motor neuron diseaseParkinson-s diseasequality of life

Identifiers

PMID35835551
PMCPMC9554026

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