Background Training in palliative care is essential to prepare healthcare professionals to provide compassionate care. Traditional methods often fail to equip students with necessary skills and ...
Short-term decline in weaker-side handgrip strength is associated with shorter survival in patients with advanced cancer admitted to a palliative care unit: a prospective cohort study ...
Correspondence to Dr Eva YN Yuen, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Institute for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia; e.yuen{at}deakin.edu.au Objectives Caregivers ...
Background Numerous practical daily hassles are experienced by patients, carers and professionals to get the right palliative medications at the right time (Yardley, Francis, Dean Franklin, et al. BMJ ...
Correspondence to Dr Alison Mary Kearney, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, ...
Objective This study aimed to explore how postgraduate physicians experience and articulate their professional development through reflective writing in a national palliative care training programme ...
Objectives To analyse patient-reported concerns regarding palliative chemotherapy using text mining and to identify how these concerns evolve according to treatment phase and patient characteristics.
We read with interest the article by Kudva et al entitled ‘ Oral health in cancer palliative care: cross-sectional study’ .1 The study focuses on ‘dental issues’ and suggests a greater role for dental ...
Objective Physical functioning (PF), emotional functioning (EF), overall quality of life (QOL) and activities of daily living (ADL) such as walking and toilet transfer are the primary outcomes of ...
Background Delirium and agitation are common and distressing in the last days of life. In specialist palliative care practice, descriptions such as ‘terminal agitation’ appear to be used more commonly ...
Aims To compare and rank the effectiveness of various advance care planning (ACP) decision aids in increasing the completion rates of ACP. Background ACP protects patient autonomy, eases caregiver ...
OIN is common. Even within a limited and methodologically heterogeneous literature, prevalence estimates range from 6% to 38% in palliative care populations, with three of the more recent robust ...
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