Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional development of ...

Chronic breathlessness is a disabling and distressing condition for which there is a growing evidence base for a range of interventions. Non-pharmacological interventions are the mainstay of ...

Background Quality palliative care encompasses holistic bereavement and pre-bereavement support for everyone important to the dying patient (Ambitions for Palliative and End of Life Care, 2021). Based ...

Objective The primary objective of the study was to determine the relative importance of place of death to patients with advanced cancer being treated at a cancer centre in England. Methods ...

Background A growing body of research indicates that physicians suffer high levels of stress, depression and burnout. Related literature has found that physician stress can negatively impact patient ...

Objectives To analyse healthcare utilisation and costs in the last year of life in England, and to study variation by cause of death, region of patient residence and socioeconomic status. Methods This ...

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 ...

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 Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9PJ, ...

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 ...

Background Ketamine is a potential adjuvant analgesic in palliative care patients with refractory pain. Regional guidance from 2012 recommends a ‘burst’ regimen with rapidly escalating doses over 5 ...

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 ...