Sentence examples for initiation of palliative from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, palliative care is initiated only for end-stage cancer patients, and the mean time from the initiation of palliative care to death is 21.9 days in head and neck cancer patients, suggesting that incurable patients may be referred to palliative care institutions too late.

Furthermore, the proposed host stratification criteria could result in the initiation of palliative care in patients who may have been able to cope with curative treatment.

In 75.3%, visceral metastases were present upon initiation of palliative trastuzumab.

In a prospective study, QoL of patients with brain metastases deteriorated in several domains within three months of initiation of palliative radiotherapy.

These results led us to address prospectively the question of the development of QoL over time within three months after initiation of palliative radiotherapy for brain metastases.

The patients were mostly men (n = 171; 86%) with a median age of 61 years (ranging from 29 to 87 years) at the time of initiation of palliative chemotherapy.

Recognition of a stroke patient's 'dying' status may be ambiguous [ 2], potentially resulting in over or under treatment and delaying initiation of general palliative care or referral to specialist palliative care.

Although knowledge of factors that predict acute stroke mortality is available [ 5], recognition of a stroke patient's 'dying' status may be ambiguous [ 6], potentially resulting in over or under treatment and delaying initiation of general palliative care or referral to specialist palliative care.

Then, «non-readmission» decisions would be integrated in a therapeutic project which would promote the initiation of a palliative care program if necessary.

Participants were followed until the first occurrence of an outcome of interest, death, initiation of dialysis or palliative care, diagnosis of thyroid cancer, or the end of the study period (31 March 2008).

The time to treatment failure (TTF) was calculated from the date of palliative chemotherapy initiation and terminated on the date of palliative chemotherapy discontinuation for various reasons, including treatment toxicity, disease progression, or patient withdrawal.