Correspondence to Dr Camilla Zimmermann, Department of Supportive Care, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; camilla.zimmermann{at}uhn.ca Objective WHO ...

Objectives We established an integrated palliative homecare programme for advanced dementia. This study explores patients’ symptoms and quality-of-life and their association with enteral feeding, ...

5 Centre for Aging Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 6 Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Background Family caregivers of patients with ...

Background Precise prognostic information, if available, is very helpful for guiding treatment decisions and resource allocation in patients with non-cancer non-communicable chronic diseases (NCDs).

Correspondence to Professor Geoffrey Mitchell, Primary Care Clinical Unit, University of Queensland Faculty of Medicine, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; g.mitchell{at}uq.edu.au Background With an ...

5 Discipline of Palliative and Supportive Services, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 6 Palliative Care Research Team, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, ...

Correspondence to Dr Gary Rodin, Department of Supportive Care, 16–724, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, 610 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 2M9; ...

Introduction Patient-reported outcomes are an integral part of modern healthcare. We report a comparison of symptom item content from several validated cancer instruments to that of a published ...

Objectives Despite a number of studies on effectiveness of palliative care, there is a lack of complex updated review of the impact of in-hospital palliative care consult service. The objective is to ...

Objectives Facilitated advance care planning (ACP) helps family carers’ to be aware of patient preferences. It can improve family carers’ involvement in decision making and their overall experiences ...

Correspondence to Michela Piredda, Research Unit Nursing Science, Universita Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Via Alvaro del Portillo, 00128, Italy; M.Piredda{at}unicampus.it Background/scope Stroke ...

Objectives The aim of this evaluation is to describe the components and results of urgent care planning in Coordinate My Care (CMC), a digital clinical service for patients with life-limiting illness, ...