Correspondence to Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9PJ, ...
Objective The positive impact of early palliative care interventions in advanced cancer patients has so far been largely evaluated in randomised controlled trials. This study aimed at providing ...
Background In Wales, the term advance care planning now falls under the wider umbrella term ‘Future Care Planning’, which also includes patients with diminished mental capacity and their significant ...
Background To ensure patients and families receive appropriate end-of-life care pathways and guidelines aim to inform clinical decision making. Ensuring appropriate outcomes through the use of these ...
1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...
Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Thomas, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia; benjamin.thomas{at}health.nsw.gov.au ...
Background Patients who are diagnosed with MND begin a journey of change which affects the individual for the rest of their life. In South West Essex a monthly clinic has been set up enabling the ...
Background A limited number of registered nurses (RNs) on a hospice in-patient unit, and increased complexity of symptom management (Henson, Maddocks, Evans, et al. J Clin Oncol. 2020;38(9):905–914), ...
Objectives Palliative care summaries are used by general practices to provide structured anticipatory care information to those providing care during the out-of-hours period. We hypothesised that the ...
Objectives Although systemic chemotherapy is often administered to patients with malignant bowel obstruction (MBO), its benefit remains unknown. This study assessed the outcomes of patients who ...
Introduction The Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care: a national framework for local action (2015) was relaunched in 2021 for another five years. The Framework focuses on six ambitions, ...
Correspondence to Dr Linda Björkhem-Bergman, Department of Palliative Medicine and Advanced Medical Home Care, ASIH Stockholm Södra, Långbro park, Bergtallsvägen 12, 125 59 Älvsjö, Sweden; ...
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