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| Title |
Applying palliative care principles and practice to emergency medicine
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Emergency Medicine Australasia, November 2015
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| DOI | 10.1111/1742-6723.12494 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ian R Rogers, Bill Lukin |
| Abstract |
Only recently has the potential (unmet) palliative care (PC) workload in the ED been recognised. While confident in PC symptom management, we underestimate the role of a palliative approach in non-cancer diagnoses and seek education in areas such as individual patient care pathways, ethical and legal issues and difficult conversations at the end of life. PC is best introduced early for a range of life-limiting cancer and non-cancer diagnoses. Allowing patients time to tell their story with active listening, acknowledgement of suffering and a compassionate presence leads to treatment 'success' that is not defined by cure. This patient-centred, rather than disease-centred approach, is the essence of PC, and one that is easily incorporated into emergency practice. PC and disease-specific treatments can comfortably coexist, and with meticulous symptom management, may actually prolong life. PC is everyone's business, and emergency medicine needs to be part of it. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 6 | 38% |
| Australia | 3 | 19% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 6% |
| United States | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 5 | 31% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 56% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 5 | 31% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 26 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 26 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Other | 5 | 19% |
| Student > Bachelor | 4 | 15% |
| Researcher | 4 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 2 | 8% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 4 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 11 | 42% |
| Psychology | 3 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 8% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 1 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 4% |
| Other | 4 | 15% |
| Unknown | 4 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 November 2016.
All research outputs
#4,087,813
of 25,402,889 outputs
Outputs from Emergency Medicine Australasia
#520
of 1,980 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#52,320
of 293,359 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Emergency Medicine Australasia
#7
of 25 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,980 research outputs from this source. They typically receive more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 8.3. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 73% of its peers.
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