Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?

People with intellectual disabilities are among the most disadvantaged groups in society. Here we report a mentally incompetent end stage renal failure (ESRF) patient with frequent emergency visits who made a significant improvement in symptoms control and reduction in casualty visits after introduc...

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Autores principales: Chan, Kwok-Ying, Yip, Terence, Sham, Mau-Kwong, Cheng, Benjamin Hon-Wai, Li, Cho-Wing, Wong, Yim-Chi, Lau, Vikki Wai-Kee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370191/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25838954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/478783
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author Chan, Kwok-Ying
Yip, Terence
Sham, Mau-Kwong
Cheng, Benjamin Hon-Wai
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Lau, Vikki Wai-Kee
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description People with intellectual disabilities are among the most disadvantaged groups in society. Here we report a mentally incompetent end stage renal failure (ESRF) patient with frequent emergency visits who made a significant improvement in symptoms control and reduction in casualty visits after introduction of renal palliative care service. Multidisciplinary approach would be useful in this case.
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spelling pubmed-43701912015-04-02 Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important? Chan, Kwok-Ying Yip, Terence Sham, Mau-Kwong Cheng, Benjamin Hon-Wai Li, Cho-Wing Wong, Yim-Chi Lau, Vikki Wai-Kee Case Rep Nephrol Case Report People with intellectual disabilities are among the most disadvantaged groups in society. Here we report a mentally incompetent end stage renal failure (ESRF) patient with frequent emergency visits who made a significant improvement in symptoms control and reduction in casualty visits after introduction of renal palliative care service. Multidisciplinary approach would be useful in this case. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4370191/ /pubmed/25838954 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/478783 Text en Copyright © 2015 Kwok-Ying Chan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?
title Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?
title_full Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?
title_fullStr Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?
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title_short Palliative Care for a Mentally Incompetent End Stage Renal Failure Patient: Why Is It Important?
title_sort palliative care for a mentally incompetent end stage renal failure patient: why is it important?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4370191/
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