Background Palliative care (PC) refers to providing patients with physical, psychological, mental, and other care and humanistic care services in a multidisciplinary collaborative mode with ...

Introduction Patients with life-limiting illnesses are at increased risk of mucosal bleeding. Usual management includes anticipatory planning and sedation, alongside anti-fibrinolytics, despite a lack ...

What is known about the role of clinical ethics services in cancer care? A systematic/narrative literature review ...

Correspondence to Dr Natalie Bradford, Centre for Healthcare Transformation at Centre for Children's Health Research, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; ...

Objectives People receiving end-of-life care often require assistance with decision-making. We aimed to ascertain from the perspective of palliative care healthcare professionals in Ireland, the ...

Introduction Primary care has a central role in palliative and end of life care: 45.6% of deaths in England and Wales occur under the care of primary care teams at home or in care homes. The Community ...

6 School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences,University of Salford, Salford, UK Correspondence to Dr Karen Shaw, School of Health and Population Sciences, College of Medical and ...

Background Research has found that caring affects carers physically, mentally, and emotionally (Davidson & Gentry, 2013; Carers UK, 2020), with many carers reporting getting no breaks at all (Carers ...

Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Mitchell, Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; g.mitchell{at}uq.edu.au Background With an ...

Objectives There is increased global focus on advance care planning (ACP) with attention from policymakers, more education programmes, laws and public awareness campaigns. Methods We provide a summary ...

Background The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the emotional burden and stress experienced by palliative care workers (Pastrana, De Lima, Pettus, Ramsey, et al. Palliat Support Care. 2021; 19(2):187–192 ...

Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic revealed and exacerbated many long-standing inequalities. British Muslims are an ethnically diverse population including many groups at greater risk of worse ...