1 Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) & Ghent University, End-of-life Care Research Group, Brussels, Belgium Context Advance care planning (ACP) interventions have the potential to improve outcomes for ...

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 ...

Objective Cancer survivors’ perceptions of healthcare have been identified as a predictor of quality of life (QoL) outcomes. This study aims to explore colorectal cancer (CRC) survivors’ perceptions ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Kenro Hirata, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan; kenro916{at}gmail.com ...

Background Burnout, demoralisation and compassion fatigue are common among palliative care professionals. Practising palliative care necessitates a quality of resilience in order to ensure constant ...

Objectives End of life has unacceptable levels of hospital admission and death. We aimed to determine the association of a novel digital specific system (Proactive Risk-Based and Data-Driven ...

Correspondence to Professor Hanping Shi, Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery/Clinical Nutrition, Capital Medical University Affiliated Beijing Shijitan Hospital, Beijing 100038, China; shihp{at}vip ...

Correspondence to Dr Ollie Minton, Palliative Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton BN2 5BE, Brighton and Hove, UK; ollie.minton{at}nhs.net Objectives We wanted to ...

Background It is essential that the physical environments in which inpatient palliative care is provided support the needs of patients and the facilitate the multidimensional delivery of palliative ...

Background The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to compare the complication rates of enteral nutrition (EN) (oral or tube feeding (TF)) and parenteral nutrition (PN) in patients with ...

Background Family carers are vital in the management and delivery of home-based palliative care. Decision-makers need to know what the most commonly expressed unmet needs of family carers are to ...