3 Queen Mary University of London, Barts & the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Centre of Primary Care and Public Health, Blizard Institute, London, UK Objective Multimorbidity is increasingly ...
Correspondence to Dr Kirsty Boyd, Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; kirsty.boyd{at}ed.ac.uk Objective To refine and evaluate a ...
Correspondence to Dr Geraldine Foley, Discipline of Occupational Therapy, School of Medicine, Trinity Centre for Health Sciences, Dublin 8, Ireland; foleyg3{at}tcd.ie Understanding the mechanisms (ie, ...
Correspondence to Dr Margred Capel, George Thomas Hospice Care, Ty George Thomas, Whitchurch hospital Grounds, Park Road, Whitchurch, Cardiff CF14 7BQ, UK; Margred.capel{at}gthc.org.uk Objectives The ...
Background The specialist palliative care workforce is experiencing recruitment and retention challenges to Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) roles in all settings. In response, drawing on the End of ...
Background Advance care planning (ACP) is a communication process about a person’s values, life goals and preferences for current and future treatment and care. It can improve end-of-life care ...
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 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 Health services must meet the needs of patients and their families. The Outcome Assessment and Complexity Collaborative (OACC) collated a suite of measures to capture and demonstrate this ...
Introduction Alcoholic related liver disease (ArLD) deaths and hospital admissions continue to rise. Hospital admissions are associated with high risk of mortality in the admission and within the ...
Introduction Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a chronic progressive condition, can lead to high informal carer-burden. We lack good evidence on the needs of carers of patients ...
Terminal agitation is common and causes severe distress for patients and loved ones. Careful assessment is of paramount importance in identifying a cause. PA patient with gastric adenocarcinoma who ...