Background In 2019, postgraduate deaneries were required to introduce a formal teaching programme addressing aspects of the new internal medicine training (IMT) curriculum with more emphasis on ...
Aim 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 ranging in age from ...
Psoas muscle indices, visceral fat distribution, inflammatory markers and 90-day mortality in palliative medicine: retrospective cohort study ...
1 Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK ...
Background Patients at the end of life often suffer from urinary difficulties. A systematic review (Farrington et al, in press) found minimal research to indicate how these difficulties should be ...
Background Acupuncture has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective treatment for insomnia in patients without cancer. A lack of evidence, however, supports its application in the treatment of ...
Background Stroke is often associated with long term morbidity and increased mortality risks of up to 30% within the first year.1 Advance Care Planning (ACP) has a role in ensuring good delivery of ...
Background Appropriate rapid discharge planning supports discharge to where the person wants to be cared for at EOL. This involves transfer of care over different settings. This evaluation assessed ...
Objective The goal of this scoping review is to identify the most commonly used models of palliative care delivery in acute care settings, their advantages and disadvantages, and to review existent ...
Background Physical activity (PA) is a crucial component in the management of cancer survivors. In recent years, a number of quantitative studies on PA among patients with haematological malignancies ...
Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneously (SC) administered tranexamic acid. Methods A retrospective chart review of the use of SC tranexamic acid in a single palliative care ...
Background Douglas (BMJ. 1992, 304: 579) wrote about the hospice movement and innovative future care for the dying 30 years ago. Hospice at Home services have developed nationally in response to local ...
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