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Personal legacy and treatment choices for serious illness: …

WebBackground Legacy—how one hopes to be remembered after death—is an unexplored and important dimension of decision-making for people facing serious illness. …

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Serious Illness Care Programme—contextual factors and …

WebObjectives The Serious Illness Care Programme (SICP) is a multicomponent evidence-based intervention that improves communication about patients’ values and goals in …

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Global quality of life in breast cancer: systematic review …

WebBackground Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women worldwide. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to cover the existing research gap and …

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End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death

WebBackground How quality in healthcare is measured shapes care provision, including how and what care is delivered. In end-of-life care, appropriate measurement can facilitate …

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End-of-life care costs and place of death across health …

WebObjectives This study explores the relationship between end-of-life care costs and place of death across different health and social care sectors. Methods We used a …

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Cancer patients’ awareness of extent of disease: anxiety, …

WebObjective In Asian cultures, the belief that full disclosure would harm the patient’s health would lead to non-disclosure. The study aimed to determine whether …

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Global quality of life in breast cancer: systematic …

WebOverview. Based on the meta- regression which examined a total of 9012 patients with BC, the QoL score calculated by EORTC QLQ- C30 was 64.72 (95% CI …

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Healthcare professionals’ moral distress in adult palliative …

WebObjectives Palliative care providers may be exposed to numerous detrimental psychological and existential challenges. Ethical issues in the healthcare arena are subject to continual …

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Impact of dementia on informal care: a systematic …

WebThe strength of this systematic review is its descrip-tion of the phenomenon of caregiving for a person with dementia, through the views of informal care-givers, …

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Opioid safety recommendations in adult palliative …

WebObjectives Despite the escalating public health emergency related to opioid-related deaths in Canada and the USA, opioids are essential for palliative care (PC) symptom …

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End-of-life care quality measures: beyond place of death

WebIn end- of- life care, appropriate measurement can facilitate effective care and research, and when used in policy, highlight deficits and developments in provision and …

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Health literacy interventions for informal caregivers: systematic

WebAim The aim of the systematic review was to identify conceptual models and interventions designed to improve health literacy in caregivers of adults with a chronic …

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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of palliative care in natural

WebContext Investigators in palliative care rely heavily on routinely collected data, which carry risk of unobserved confounding and selection bias. ‘Natural experiments’ offer …

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US hospices’ approach to racial/ethnic minority inclusion: a

WebBackground. Research shows that providing comfort care in the form of hospice to patients nearing the end of life is an effective approach to improving their quality of life1 as well …

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The impact of the environment on patient experiences of hospital

WebObjective To explore the impact of environment on experiences of hospitalisation from the perspective of patient's with palliative care needs. Methods A qualitative study design …

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Breaking bad news sensitively: what is important to patients in …

WebAim To understand patients' perspectives on how a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness was first communicated to them. Study design In-depth qualitative interviews with 50 people …

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Ethnicity and palliative care: we need better data – five key

WebComplete and valid ethnicity data are essential for monitoring racial and ethnic disparities but consideration needs to be given to collecting data well and using it responsibly. …

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Immersive virtual reality and psychological well-being in adult …

WebIntroduction Individuals with chronic physical illness are at increased risk of negative psychological sequelae. Immersive virtual reality (VR) is an emerging treatment that …

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Contents Volume 6 Issue 3 BMJ SP Care September 2016

WebContents Volume 6 Issue 3 | BMJ SP Care September 2016 Editorials 247 Editor’s choice B Noble 248 What is in a name? Evidence of impact in palliative and end-of-life care in the …

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Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic

WebObjectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not …

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Volume 9 Issue 3 Pages 235–362 September 2019 Volume 9 …

WebEditor-in-chief Declan Walsh (USA) Associate Editors Stephen Barclay (UK) Jason Boland (UK) Jo Hockley (UK) Miriam Johnson (UK) Ciarán Kenny (Ireland)

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News and notes Shortcuts Education News

WebContents Volume 7 Issue 1 | BMJ SP Care March 2017 Editorial 1 Editor’s choice B Noble News and notes 2 News and updates from palliativedrugs.com A Wilcock, S …

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