Disease relevance of Terminal Care

• The main objective of this study was to obtain information on current patterns of care and associated resource use and costs for patients with SCLC from initial diagnosis and treatment phase, throughout disease progression and terminal care [1].
• Economic analysis of terminal care for patients with malignant osteolytic bone disease and pain treated with pamidronate [2].
• Costs of breast cancer care (letrozole therapy, surveillance, recurrences, terminal care) and treatment of osteoporosis and utilities were derived from literature [3].

High impact information on Terminal Care

• Flunitrazepam in terminal care [4].
• Seventeen patients returned home with gastric decompression and cyclic parenteral nutrition, two of them for terminal care [5].
• Propofol in terminal care [6].
• A terminal care support team in a Paris university hospital: care providers' views [7].
• The use of methotrimeprazine in terminal care [8].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Terminal Care

• The following aspects of home health care in the United Kingdom are discussed: continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis; parenteral nutrition; cytotoxic therapy; terminal care/pain control; intravenous antibiotics [9].

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