Objectives To assess existing advance care planning (ACP) practices in residential aged care facilities (RACFs) in Victoria, Australia before a systematic intervention; to assess RACF staff experience ...

Correspondence to Dr Jennifer Tjia, Division of Epidemiology and Chronic Diseases, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Albert Sherman Building, 368 Plantation Street, AS8-2068, Worcester, MA ...

Background Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) teams, operating across multiple sites, encountered challenges in managing individual caseloads. This led to inflexibility at a time of increasing demands ...

Objective The quality of end-of-life (EOL) care in acute hospitals is variable and interventions to improve this care, such as EOL care pathways, are not always used. The underlying reasons for this ...

Background/Aims One third of inpatients are in their final year of life and are challenging to identify leading to development of trigger tools to aid clinician recognition. The National Institute of ...

Correspondence to Dr Constanze Remi, Department of Palliative Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich Faculty of Medicine, 81377 Munich, Bayern, Germany; constanze.remi{at}med.uni-muenchen.de ...

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National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), Health Education North East (HENE), North East Assisted Ventilation Service (NEAVS), North East Palliative Registrars Research and Education Alliance ...