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 ...

Objectives There is limited evidence of the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study on deaths of all patients known to a hospice in a 2.5-year ...

Objectives People with serious life-limiting disease benefit from advance care planning, but require active identification. This study applied the Gold Standards Framework Proactive Identification ...

Correspondence to Dr Catriona Mayland, Aintree Specialist Palliative Care Service, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, Wards 53/54, Longmoor Lane, Liverpool L9 7AL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Mei Ling Look, University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur 68100, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia; entitylml{at}yahoo.com Context There has been increasing evidence of the ...

Objective To explore how bereaved family members recall managing end of life medications when delivering care to a patient dying at home in England. Design Qualitative study. Setting Domestic homes in ...

Emerging evidence suggests that methadone has a specific role in the management of treatment resistant cancer-related pain. Objectives To investigate the utilisation pattern, safety and efficacy of ...

Background It is essential that the physical environments in which inpatient palliative care is provided support the needs of patients and the facilitate the multidimensional delivery of palliative ...

Background Advanced clinical practice is a level of practice in which a practitioner has demonstrated an ability to work autonomously at a high level across four key pillars of advanced practice which ...

Background Increasing complexity in all healthcare settings requires a range of creative educational strategies for multidisciplinary (MDT) learning. A SWOT analysis of, and feedback from existing ...

Correspondence to Josie Dixon, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; j.e.dixon{at}lse.ac.uk Objectives ...

Correspondence to Ahmad Ghashghaee, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran 1449614535, Iran (the Islamic Republic of); ahmad.ghashghaee1996{at}gmail.com Background and aim The purpose of this ...