For the eighth consecutive year, the WeCare Chair held its annual workshop on palliative care and end-of-life care with national and international experts and members of its own team. On this occasion, the International Workshop was titled ‘Understanding all the needs of the patient: a systematic evaluation‘, and kept the purpose of gathering and analyzing…
A. Libran Oriol, C. Cruz-Sequeiros, A. Luque-Blanco y J. Porta-Sales. Antagonistas periféricos de los receptores opioides Mu en el tratamiento del estreñimiento inducido por opioides: revisión. RESED. 2020. DOI: 10.20986/resed.2020.3717/2018
On October 21, the director of the WeCare Chair, Dr. Cristina Monforte, was been invited as the main speaker in an online training session under the title ‘The desire to advance death in patients with advanced diseases: What do we know? How do we approach it?’ The Official College of Psychologists of Catalonia has organized…
On a new occasion, on September 22, 2020, Andrea Rodriguez-Prat was invited to an update session of the Catalan-Balearic Society of Palliative Care. This time, the objective of the session was to discuss the concept of dignity from a philosophical point of view and its application in clinical practice. The associate professor and graduate in…
The Víctor Grífols i Lucas Foundation has focused on promoting bioethics since 1998, fostering dialogue between leaders from different areas of knowledge. They offer a wide platform for debate that constitutes a meeting place for the approach of different perspectives in discussions related to the ethics of life. Among the various means they offer to carry out their…
On October 2, the first meeting of the working group ‘Wish To Hasten Death (WTHD) in Patients with Life-threatening Illnesses: A clinical issue‘ took place, recognized by the EAPC as a Task Force. Within the framework of the 11th EAPC World Research Congress 2020, which due to the epidemiological situation was held online, the group…
In 2020, the XIII edition of ‘Jornadas Àltima’ for professionals intends to treat the approach of decisions at the end of life. It will take place in a webinar format on Friday, October 23, and on Friday, October 6 at 10h CET, and will gather together experts of the health area, who work both with the WeCare Chair at UIC and with the Catalan…
Crespo I, Monforte-Royo C, Balaguer A, Cruz-Sequeiro C, Luque-Blanco A, Porta-Sales J. Screening for the Wish to Hasten Death in the First Palliative Care Encounter: A proof-of-concept study. J Palliat Med. 2020; DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2020.0276
M. Labori Trias, R. Hernández-Ribas, J. Porta-Sales. Opioid misuse in patients with cancer pain: an integrative systematic review of the literature. RESED. Sept 2020. DOI: 10.20986/resed.2020.3801/2020
The European Academy of Nursing Sciences established their Summer Camps in the year 1998 and since then has formed tens of predoctoral students develop in the research field. The nurses interested to form a part have to present a candidature to opt for a spot. The course lasts three years and features three modules that are carried out in different cities in Europe.…