Background Dyspnoea is a prevalent, debilitating symptom in advanced life-limiting illnesses. While opioids and non-pharmacological measures remain foundational, refractory breathlessness presents a ...

Objectives Virtual health has the potential to improve access to supportive oncology and improve operational performance; ...

Objectives End-of-life and bereavement care support services differ in critical care and inpatient hospice settings. There are limited population-level data comparing deaths in these two locations. We ...

3 Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Unit, UCL Mental Health Sciences Unit, London, UK 4 Department of Old Age Psychiatry, Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, Park Royal Centre for ...

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

Background Games and gamified learning are increasingly used in healthcare education, including palliative care. However, the emotional complexity of palliative care may seem at odds with the ...

Objectives Environmental sustainability is an important concern within the National Health Service. Compared with other specialties, there has been little research within palliative care. This study ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the trajectory of symptom burden and quality of life in palliative cancer patients ...

Introduction The majority of observational studies approved that regular consumption of vitamin E would decrease the risk of cardiovascular events. However, a great number of randomised trials do not ...

Objectives Patients on anticancer therapy attending palliative care services often have oral health problems, but not enough ...

Objective Various providers have piloted palliative virtual wards in the past 4 years. This survey provides the first ...

Objective To analyse differences in the last month of life (LMoL) of patients with paediatric cancer, classified depending on if they were included in an integrated home–hospital paediatric palliative ...