BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and high-flow nasal therapy (HFNT) in palliative care: a critical narrative review

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

Background Decisional regret (DR) is an important patient-reported outcome, reflecting patients’ retrospective evaluation of ...
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Virtual supportive oncology in a multi-speciality cancer network: demographic profiles, rural-urban utilisation patterns and operational performance

Objectives Virtual health has the potential to improve access to supportive oncology and improve operational performance; ...
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Minimal clinically important differences and the illusion of precision

Objective Minimal clinically important differences (MCIDs) are used in palliative care trials to guide sample size ...
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Consensus definition of clinical complexity in palliative care: a two-round Delphi Study with a National Multidisciplinary Panel ...
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Need for nutritional support, eating-related distress and experience of terminally ill patients with cancer: a survey in an inpatient hospice

Correspondence to Koji Amano, Department of Palliative Medicine, Palliative Care Team, Osaka City General Hospital, 2-13-22 Miyakojima-hondori, Miyakojima-ku, Osaka 534-0021, Japan; ...
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Existential distress: identification and management by hospice and palliative medicine fellows

Correspondence to Dr Angela Yeh, Department of Medicine, Palliative Care Section, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA; ayeh{at}mednet.ucla.edu Given the multidimensional ...
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Why we need more poetry in palliative care

Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth A Davies, Cancer Epidemiology, Population and Global Health, School of Cancer and Pharmaceutical Sciences Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London, ...
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Barriers to providing end-of-life care for people with dementia: a whole-system qualitative study

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 ...
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Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review

Background Homeless adults experience a significant symptom burden when living with a life-limiting illness and nearing the end of life. This increases the inequalities that homeless adults face while ...
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Research challenges in palliative and end of life care

Correspondence to Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9PJ, ...
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End-of-life care by specialist palliative care teams: 10-year retrospective satisfaction evaluation

Background The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) ran a national Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service evaluation from 2013, using the Family Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care (FAMCARE-2) ...