Objectives Rehabilitation in patients with terminal cancer plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life. However, ...

Objectives Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders limit the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but are often interpreted more ...

Objectives To investigate public views about doctors as a point of access to voluntary-assisted dying (VAD), this study used ...

Objective Literature identifies that doctors struggle in navigating ethical issues at the end of life. Residents look to ...

Background Patients with cancer frequently have unmet palliative care needs yet timely integration of palliative care in ...

Corticosteroids are sometimes used in inoperable malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) despite limited evidence. The main randomised evidence comes from an old Cochrane review totalling 89 patients ...

Background People with a learning disability (PWLD) are living longer with a greater need for palliative care. Research has identified that people with a learning disability experience challenges when ...

Background Clinicians hesitate to engage with advance care planning (ACP) in heart failure. We aimed to identify the disease-specific barriers and facilitators for clinicians to engage with ACP.

Psoas muscle indices, visceral fat distribution, inflammatory markers and 90-day mortality in palliative medicine: retrospective cohort study ...

1 NHS Lincolnshire Partnership Foundation Trust, Grantham, England & University of Nottingham, England, UK 2 University of Nottingham, England, UK Background The Distress Thermometer is the most ...

Objectives To determine the prevalence of nightmares, sleep terrors and vivid dreams in patients with advanced cancer (and the factors associated with them in this group of patients). Methods The ...

Objective Consideration of quality of life (QoL) in people with end-stage renal disease has become an important part of treatment decision-making. The aim of this study was to report on QoL and other ...