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Terminally Ill

Known as: Ill, Terminally, ill terminally 
Persons with an incurable or irreversible illness at the end stage that will result in death within a short time. (From O'Leary et al., Lexikon… 
National Institutes of Health

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Highly Cited
2005
Highly Cited
2005
Remote psychotherapy for terminally ill cancer patients
We conducted a feasibility study of remote psychotherapy in 10 terminally ill cancer patients with diagnoses of adjustment… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Good and bad dying from the perspective of terminally ill men.
BACKGROUND Understanding the range of patients' views about good and bad deaths may be useful to clinicians caring for terminally… 
Review
2003
Review
2003
Difficulties encountered by nurses in the care of terminally ill cancer patients in general hospitals in Japan
The aim of this study was to investigate the difficulties encountered by nurses who have cared for terminally ill cancer patients… 
Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
An exploratory factor analysis of existential suffering in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients
To determine an underlying factorial structure of existential distress in Japanese terminally ill cancer patients, a principal… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Terminally ill patients' and lay-carers' perceptions and experiences of community-based services.
This paper reports on terminally ill patients' and their lay-carers' perceptions and experiences of community-based services. It… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Psychiatric morbidity in terminally ill cancer patients
Stage 0 lesions or in those associated with invasive port that delirium was the most common psychiatric disturbance in terminally… 
Review
1996
Review
1996
The spiritual dimension of hospice: the secularization of an ideal.
Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Attitudes of Japanese and Japanese-American physicians towards life-sustaining treatment
Review
1991
Review
1991
Oral health in the terminally ill: a cross-sectional pilot survey.
This study of 20 hospice patients provided baseline information on oral and dental status in the terminally ill. For each patient… 
Review
1990
Review
1990
Management of Delirium in Terminally Ill AIDS Patients
Delirium is the most common neuropsychiatric complication of hospitalized AIDS patients. Typically, delirium is multifactorial in… 
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