Chadani Vaidya Author

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End of life care and family issues and their concerned at palliative care at bhaktapur cancer hospital

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Chadani Vaidya, Roshan Prajapati

Objectives: The objective of the study was to find out the family issues and their concerns about the end of life care planning at palliative care unit admitted the patient.

Method: A respective study was carried out among the family members of advanced-stage cancer patients who were admitted to the palliative care unit from 1st Jan to Dec 31st, 2017. 70 family counselling forms which include patient’s demography, final diagnosis with stage, and patients knowledge about their own disease, present patients palliative performance status, relevant family issues from nearest family members and planning of end of life care.

Result: The study revealed the majority of patients were male. 70% have PPS <50% (80%) lies between 50 to 88 years with stage IV disease (80%... view more»

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