Search for dissertations about: "Pain management palliative"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words Pain management palliative.

2. 1. Acute postoperative and cancer-related pain management, Patients´ experiences and perceptions in relation to health-related quality of life and the multidimensionality of pain

   Author : Barbro Boström; Anestesiologi och intensivvård; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; Anestesiologi; intensivvård; intensive care; Anaesthesiology; SF-36.; postoperative pain; Pain-o-Meter; perceptions; pain management; nursing care; Health-Related Quality of Life; American Pain Society; cancer-related pain; American Pain Society; MEDICINE;

   Abstract : This thesis describes patients in acute postoperative pain as well as patients with acute cancer-related pain in palliative care, and their experiences and perceptions of pain management in relation to HRQOL and the multidimensionality of pain. A combination of qualitative and quantitative methods was chosen. READ MORE

4. 2. Dyspnea Experience and Quality of Life among persons with lung cancer in palliative care

   Author : Ingela Henoch; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : Cancer Dyspnea Scale; CDS; Consequences; Content analysis; Coping; Depression; Dyspnea; Existential; Experience; Lung cancer; Management strategies; Palliative care; Quality of life; Reliability; Social support; Symptoms; Symptom experience; Validity;

   Abstract : Background: Dyspnea, a subjective, multidimensional experience of breathing discomfort commonly occurring in patients with incurable lung cancer, influences all aspects of life in the suffering per¬sons. To optimally enhance quality of life (QoL) and to identify persons most vulnerable to this symptom, it is important to investigate how to assess dyspnea, how other symptoms and coping are related to dyspnea, and what the consequences of dyspnea are, especially on QoL. READ MORE

5. 3. Vitamin D in palliative care : aspects on pain, infections and quality of life

   Author : Maria Helde Frankling; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : The World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) definition of palliative care stresses the importance of early identification and assessment of physical symptoms in the palliative patient, to prevent and relieve suffering. The overall goal is to improve quality of life, and it is thus important that side effects of medical treatment do not outweigh beneficial effects. READ MORE

6. 4. The Impact of Advanced Home Care on Health-related Quality of Life. Reports in the end of life from palliative care patients with cancer

   Author : Marianne Ahlner-Elmqvist; Malmö högskola; []
   Keywords : MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP; MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES; palliative medicine; quality of life;

   Abstract : Aim of study - The aim of the present work was to compare patients with advancedcancer receiving specialized palliative home care with those receiving conventional carewith regard to time spent at home and place of death (Paper I), factors associated with thepatients’ choice of palliative care (Paper II), and to describe the health-related quality oflife (HRQL) and the occurrence and changes in symptoms over the last three months ofthe patients’ lives (Paper III). In addition, sociodemographic and clinical differencesbetween participants and dropouts were explored in order to establish whether themissing data could be regarded as missing at random (Paper IV). READ MORE

7. 5. Low-dose methadone as add-on to ongoing opioid treatment in cancer-related pain

   Author : Per Fürst; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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   Abstract : Background: In complex cancer-related pain in imminently dying patients, even high doses of ordinary opioids may have an insufficient effect. The addition of low-dose methadone to another ongoing opioid has been proposed as a treatment option. READ MORE