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Experiencing total pain in burn intensive care units: a meta-ethnographic review

Background: Critically burned patients and their families experience unbearable pain and suffering. Working in burn intensive care units (Burn ICUs) is also a major cause of emotional distress for healthcare professionals. Although burn-related pain is part of the acute care provided to burned patients, little is known on how to optimally provide suffering relief. Aim: To understand patients, families, and heal...

How to improve ethical decision-making in clinical practice? Practical models a...

Background: Clinical practice in palliative care is characterized by the need of making ethico-clinical decisions, particularly at the end-of-life. End-of-life situations are situations in which a severe deterioration in health, due to the evolution of a disease or another cause, threatens the life of a person irreversibly in the near future, posing the need to make ethico-clinical decisions. Often, these decis...

How to enhance the informed consent process in persons unable to consent? Exper...

Background: Informed consent is the most scrutinized and controversial aspect of clinical research ethics. In palliative and end-of-life care, assessing decision-making capacity may be challenging. Patients, particularly those with cognitive impairment, deserve special attention when developing, implementing, and evaluating the informed consent process. Respecting patients’ autonomy in research includes obtaini...

What does “assisted dying” mean for professionals providing end-of-life care? R...

Triggers for palliative care referral in burn intensive care units: results fro...

Integration of palliative care and psychiatry: ethico-clinical and organisation...

Dying with dignity: conceptual and practical similarities and differences among...

Did organizational models and designs of end-of-life care in burn intensive car...

End-of-life care in burn intensive care units: a systematically conducted scopi...

Ethical challenges and decisions at the end-of-life in burn intensive care unit...