Bibliographic record
Abstract
Cicely Saunders, the founder of hospice and palliative care noted that caring for spiritual pain was part of palliative care. The search for meaning is a fundamental part of being human. The confrontation with finitude affects the search and experience of meaning and can possibly generate meaninglessness. Nurses, physicians, physiotherapists, social workers, psychologists all need to address what gives meaning in a person’s life and how that expresses itself in values, practices, traditions and belief of their patients. Generalist spiritual care is gaining momentum in research and education. But there is also specialist spiritual care done by spiritual caregivers from diverse traditions. Why are they needed and what is their perspective on palliative care and how do they contribute to the care of palliative patients and their loved ones? In this presentation I will explore specialist spiritual care within palliative care and discuss the evidence, the practice and the outcomes of specialist spiritual care from an international perspective.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.015 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".