Sam H Ahmedzai
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam H Ahmedzai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam H |
| FAMILY NAME | Ahmedzai |
| SIGNATURE | AHMEDZAI S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Royal Hallamshire Hospital |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2028-8510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: Bringing death back into life
Lay carers of patients admitted to a hospice: How caring restricts their lives
The aim of this paper is to examine how caring for a terminally ill person in the domestic home restricts the lives of their lay carers. Fifty-nine lay carers of hospice patients were interviewed in the hospice approximately a week after the patient's admission using a structured and primarily closed choice schedule. Respondents were mainly the spouse or other close kin of terminally ill patients admitted to the hospice. Respondents reported that…
Pet ownership and human health: A brief review of evidence and issues
Research into the association between pet ownership and human health has produced intriguing, although frequently contradictory, results often raising uncertainty as to whether pet ownership is advisable on health grounds
Older people's views about home as a place of care at the end of life
Objectives: To explore the attitudes of older people towards home as a place of care when dying. Design: A two-phase qualitative study using focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Participants: Eight focus group discussions were held with 32 participants recruited from six purposively selected community groups representing older people in Sheffield, UK. A further 16 men and 29 women participated in semi-structured interviews. Results: Parti…
Planning for the end of life
Overcoming the challenges to consumer involvement in cancer research
Introduction Within the last decade, there have been many government initiatives to promote consumer involvement in research, especially in cancer. At the same time, the number and influence of consumer groups themselves have expanded. However, the organizational infrastructure necessary to facilitate consumer involvement has not been developed. Consequently, consumer involvement has tended to remain essentially localized and project driven, with…
Good deaths, bad deaths: Older people's assessments of the risks and benefits of morphine and terminal sedation in end-of-life care
Little is known about end-of-life preferences or how risks are assessed surrounding doctor-patient or doctor-family relationships during end-of-life decision making. Older people are often excluded from end-of-life care research although there is some evidence that most would express preferences for 'comfort care' rather than life-sustaining interventions if facing terminal illness. This paper draws on data from focus group discussions with older…
U.K. Physicians'attitudes Toward Active Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
A comparison of the views of geriatric medicine physicians and intensive care physicians in the United Kingdom on the topics of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide revealed rather different attitudes. Eighty percent of geriatricians, but only 52% of intensive care physicians, considered active voluntary euthanasia as never justified ethically. Gender and age did not play a major part in attitudinal differences of the respon…
Using focus groups to explore older people's attitudes to end of life care
This paper reports on the methodological and ethical issues that were encountered when using focus groups to explore older people's knowledge, beliefs and risk perceptions about the use of innovative health technologies in end of life care. Older people drawn from community organisations in Sheffield, England, took part in discussions about the application of ‘life prolonging’ and ‘comfort care’ technologies during serious illness and impending d…
The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology
BACKGROUND: In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach for evaluating the quality of life of patients participating in international clinical trials. PURPOSE: We report here the results of an international field study of the practicality, reliability, and validity of the EORTC QLQ-C30, the current core questionnaire. The QLQ-C30 incorporat…
Planning for the end of life
Using focus groups to explore older people's attitudes to end of life care
This paper reports on the methodological and ethical issues that were encountered when using focus groups to explore older people's knowledge, beliefs and risk perceptions about the use of innovative health technologies in end of life care. Older people drawn from community organisations in Sheffield, England, took part in discussions about the application of ‘life prolonging’ and ‘comfort care’ technologies during serious illness and impending d…
U.K. Physicians'attitudes Toward Active Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
A comparison of the views of geriatric medicine physicians and intensive care physicians in the United Kingdom on the topics of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide revealed rather different attitudes. Eighty percent of geriatricians, but only 52% of intensive care physicians, considered active voluntary euthanasia as never justified ethically. Gender and age did not play a major part in attitudinal differences of the respon…
Lay carers of patients admitted to a hospice: How caring restricts their lives
The aim of this paper is to examine how caring for a terminally ill person in the domestic home restricts the lives of their lay carers. Fifty-nine lay carers of hospice patients were interviewed in the hospice approximately a week after the patient's admission using a structured and primarily closed choice schedule. Respondents were mainly the spouse or other close kin of terminally ill patients admitted to the hospice. Respondents reported that…
The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: A Quality-of-Life Instrument for Use in International Clinical Trials in Oncology
BACKGROUND: In 1986, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) initiated a research program to develop an integrated, modular approach for evaluating the quality of life of patients participating in international clinical trials. PURPOSE: We report here the results of an international field study of the practicality, reliability, and validity of the EORTC QLQ-C30, the current core questionnaire. The QLQ-C30 incorporat…
Good deaths, bad deaths: Older people's assessments of the risks and benefits of morphine and terminal sedation in end-of-life care
Little is known about end-of-life preferences or how risks are assessed surrounding doctor-patient or doctor-family relationships during end-of-life decision making. Older people are often excluded from end-of-life care research although there is some evidence that most would express preferences for 'comfort care' rather than life-sustaining interventions if facing terminal illness. This paper draws on data from focus group discussions with older…
U.K. Physicians'attitudes Toward Active Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide
A comparison of the views of geriatric medicine physicians and intensive care physicians in the United Kingdom on the topics of active voluntary euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide revealed rather different attitudes. Eighty percent of geriatricians, but only 52% of intensive care physicians, considered active voluntary euthanasia as never justified ethically. Gender and age did not play a major part in attitudinal differences of the respon…
Using focus groups to explore older people's attitudes to end of life care
This paper reports on the methodological and ethical issues that were encountered when using focus groups to explore older people's knowledge, beliefs and risk perceptions about the use of innovative health technologies in end of life care. Older people drawn from community organisations in Sheffield, England, took part in discussions about the application of ‘life prolonging’ and ‘comfort care’ technologies during serious illness and impending d…
Overcoming the challenges to consumer involvement in cancer research
Introduction Within the last decade, there have been many government initiatives to promote consumer involvement in research, especially in cancer. At the same time, the number and influence of consumer groups themselves have expanded. However, the organizational infrastructure necessary to facilitate consumer involvement has not been developed. Consequently, consumer involvement has tended to remain essentially localized and project driven, with…
Older people's views about home as a place of care at the end of life
Objectives: To explore the attitudes of older people towards home as a place of care when dying. Design: A two-phase qualitative study using focus groups and semi-structured interviews. Participants: Eight focus group discussions were held with 32 participants recruited from six purposively selected community groups representing older people in Sheffield, UK. A further 16 men and 29 women participated in semi-structured interviews. Results: Parti…
Planning for the end of life
Pet ownership and human health: A brief review of evidence and issues
Research into the association between pet ownership and human health has produced intriguing, although frequently contradictory, results often raising uncertainty as to whether pet ownership is advisable on health grounds
Lay carers of patients admitted to a hospice: How caring restricts their lives
The aim of this paper is to examine how caring for a terminally ill person in the domestic home restricts the lives of their lay carers. Fifty-nine lay carers of hospice patients were interviewed in the hospice approximately a week after the patient's admission using a structured and primarily closed choice schedule. Respondents were mainly the spouse or other close kin of terminally ill patients admitted to the hospice. Respondents reported that…
Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death: Bringing death back into life
Medicine (8 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (6 works) · Nursing (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Palliative care (4 works) · End-of-life care (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Clinical Psychology (2 works)