Objectives Despite increasing demand for palliative and end-of-life care, the funding for research in this area has historically been low. Previous UK analyses in 2016 found that less than 0.3% of the ...

Objectives The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) was introduced across NHS Grampian. Our aim was to determine how practical and useful the PPS was for clinicians looking after palliative patients in ...

Stable longitudinal symptom intensity in cancer patients during end-of-life palliative care at home: prospective cohort study ...

2 Department of Applied Linguistics and English Language, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK Objective To compare the frequencies with which patients with cancer and health professionals use ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...

Objectives Palliative care needs rounds are triage meetings that have been introduced in residential care for older adults to help identify and prioritise care for people most at risk for unplanned ...

Objectives Red cell (blood) transfusions are used in palliative care to manage patients with symptomatic anaemia or when patients have lost blood. We aimed to understand current blood transfusion ...

Objective Accurate forecasting the life expectancy of patients with cancer is adamantly needed for adequate decision-making in the Palliative Care Services (PCS) context. Nonetheless, physician ...

Correspondence to Dr Benjamin Thomas, Palliative Medicine, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, NSW 2505, Australia; benjamin.thomas{at}health.nsw.gov.au Phenobarbital is a ...

Background Recent reports highlight the growing demand for community palliative care (Cicely Saunders International. Action plan for palliative care. Cicely Saunders International [internet]. 2021) ...

Correspondence to Dr Paul Taylor, St Luke’s Senior Clinical Lecturer in Palliative Medicine, School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield S1 4DA, UK; ...

Background The use of ranitidine subcutaneously has been well established in palliative care for symptom control of vomiting, gastric secretions, gastric protection and gastrointestinal bleeding.