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Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools validated for nursing home residents and (2) critically appraise, compare, and summarize the quality of measurement properties.
Evaluating the Pragmatic Characteristics of Advance Care Planning Outcome Measures in Dementia Clinical Trials: A Scoping Review
Advance care planning is critical for persons living with dementia due to its incurable and progressive nature. Advance care planning outcome measures must be psychometrically strong, meaningful to key partners, and pragmatic to collect to ensure impact on real-world practices. Therefore, we conducted a scoping review of outcome measures used in advance care planning randomized controlled trials involving persons living with dementia or their care partners and evaluated their pragmatic characteristics.
Identifying Nursing Home Residents with Unmet Palliative Care Needs: A Systematic Review of Screening Tool Measurement Properties
Despite common use of palliative care screening tools in other settings, the performance of these tools in the nursing home has not been well established; therefore, the purpose of this review is to (1) identify palliative care screening tools validated for nursing home residents and (2) critically appraise, compare, and summarize the quality of measurement properties.
Telehealth Palliative Care in Nursing Homes: A Scoping Review
Many adults older than 65 spend time in a nursing home (NH) at the end of life where specialist palliative care is limited. However, telehealth may improve access to palliative care services. A review of the literature was conducted to synthesize the evidence for telehealth palliative care in NHs to provide recommendations for practice, research, and policy.
A review of the psychometrics of perinatal grief instruments
The intense emotional and psychological consequences of pregnancy loss have been studied for decades. With the growing body of literature regarding women's experiences of pregnancy loss, there is an increased need for high quality evidence that underpins perinatal grief and bereavement support interventions. In this paper, we describe and analyze the psychometric properties of existing tools (the Perinatal Grief Scale, the Perinatal Bereavement Scale, the Perinatal Grief Intensity Scale) developed specifically to measure grief following perinatal loss.