Objectives To narrate the canon of knowledge around symptom control at end of life for patients using, or having recently used, non-invasive advanced respiratory support (NARS) at end of life for ...

Background Guidelines recommend an early access to specialised palliative medicine services for patients with cancer, but studies have reported a continued underuse. Palliative care facilities deliver ...

Objectives The aim of this evaluation is to describe the components and results of urgent care planning in Coordinate My Care (CMC), a digital clinical service for patients with life-limiting illness, ...

Background Accessibility to and stigma about palliative care services can result in missed opportunity to provide both specialist symptom control and early palliative care. Patients are used to ...

Correspondence to Dr Salmani Naiire, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd 14115, Iran; n.salmani{at}sbmu.ac.ir Background One of the barriers to the integration of ...

1 Centre for Palliative Care, St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Social Work, St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3 Centre for Research ...

4 Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Scott A Murray, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health ...

Palliative care is a rapidly growing field that has become an important element of holistic and interdisciplinary care for patients with serious illnesses with a goal of improving the quality of life ...

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 ...

1 King's College Hospital NHS foundation Trust, London, UK 2 Guy's and St Thomas' NHS foundation Trust, London, UK PEACE (Proactive Elderly Advance CarE) is an advance care planning (ACP) developed at ...

Background Eye Movement Desensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) was developed in the eighties as a natural process to successfully treat Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Sometimes the bereaved do ...

Introduction ACP for children with life-limiting illnesses presents one of the most complex and ethically challenging scenarios in medicine. Currently most children who die, do so in hospital and most ...