Objectives To quantify agreement between patients and their family members on their own values and preferences for use or non-use of life-sustaining treatments for the patient. Methods Hospitalised ...

Background All Healthcare professionals including nurses should be competent to provide the best end of life care. We developed Professional Development in Palliative and End of Life Care Programme to ...

Objectives To examine whether use of a hand-held fan (‘fan’) improves breathlessness and increases physical activity. Methods A secondary exploratory analysis using pooled data from the fan arms of ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 3 School of Nursing, ...

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 ...

Background Communication in palliative care requires an intrinsically empathetic approach. Good communication is known to improve psychological wellbeing, strengthen relationships and increase ...

Background Undergraduate fourth year medical students attend hospices for two case discussion lecture days as part of a one-week palliative care placement. Prior informal student feedback suggested a ...

Approaches using digital technologies to support advance care planning (ACP) and care coordination are being used in palliative and end of life care. While providing opportunities to facilitate ...

Objectives Little is known about the cost of a palliative care approach in the UK, and there is an absence of robust activity and unit cost data. The aim of this study was to review evidence on the ...

Background Neurogenic Bowel (NB) is defined as dysfunction of the colon or rectum due to loss of normal sensory or motor control. 1 Symptoms such as constipation, diarrhoea or incontinence can ...

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 ...

Objectives Volunteers have an important place in palliative care (PC), positively influencing quality of care for seriously ill people and those close to them and providing a link to the community.