title: [A terminal phase patient who can return home because of a multi-professional conference--considerations for multi-professional conference].
abstract: Palliative care has been provided in our sub-acute hospital ward and multi professional conferences have also taken place in order to enhance care. In this paper, we present a 72-year-old female who has suffered from relapse of lung cancer and was able to return home because of an execution of multi-professional conferences. We also present considerations that were carried out in multi-professional conferences. We found some of the important factors for carrying an efficient conference are advance preparations in ahead, punctuality of the conference, a conference place that is kept in the ward, coping with nurse calls and participation of nutritionists. A timely conference, sharing information among the team and the education about a dying process are some of the future subjects.
authors.affiliation: Ward 4F West, Welfare and Medical Center, Higashi-Matsudo Hospital.
authors.forename: Chinatsu
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Omouchi
authors.forename: Takae
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Akemi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
authors.forename: Shunji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
authors.forename: Tomoko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Inoue
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D010347:Patient Care Planning / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013727:Terminal Care