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Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well ...

Objectives This study aims to identify factors among British community-based adults associated with advance care planning engagement. Factors are then compared among six domains of wishes: medical ...

Introduction Recent UK-based research revealed the complex role of lone working Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) who provide hospice care at home without direct supervision of a registered practitioner. 1 ...

Objectives The aim of this study was to investigate acute opioid dose changes among patients started on a continuous subcutaneous infusion (CSCI) containing alfentanil or morphine within a specialist ...

Objectives Current methods of health expenditure reporting make spending on palliative care services difficult to quantify. This paper (1) examines trends in the components of government (public) ...

Conversations, connections & communities Patient & family care Bereavement, loss & grief Collaboration, service models & development Equity of access The digital world Data, outcomes & generating ...

In this article, we argue that the narrow focus on explicit coercion in assisted dying obscures more pervasive forms of implicit coercion operating at interpersonal and institutional levels. Drawing ...

Objective To evaluate the impact of dual tracheal and oesophageal stenting on quality of life (QoL) in Indian patients with malignant tracheoesophageal fistula (TEF) in patients of oesophageal cancer ...

Introduction Physical, emotional, and cognitive intimacy is an important aspect of quality of life, 1 and remains so, even at the end-of-life. 2 Nevertheless, evidence suggests intimacy needs in ...

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Aim This study aims to systematically evaluate the effects of palliative care on the quality of life, anxiety level, depression level, cardiac function, readmission rate and mortality rate among ...