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 ...

Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well ...

Correspondence to Dr Adam Todd, Division of Pharmacy, School of Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, Durham University, Room number: C138, Holliday Building, Queen's Campus, Stockton on Tees TS17 6BH, UK; ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsty Boyd, Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; kirsty.boyd{at}ed.ac.uk Objective To refine and evaluate a ...

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 ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...

Background Forequarter amputation (FQA), involving the removal of the upper extremity, scapula and clavicle, is a safe and reliable procedure for palliation of intractable pain, lymphoedema and limb ...

Objectives There is increased global focus on advance care planning (ACP) with attention from policymakers, more education programmes, laws and public awareness campaigns. Methods We provide a summary ...

Background Most people would prefer to die at home (Office for National Statistics. National survey of bereaved people (VOICES). 2016), yet less than 50% do (Nuffield Trust. End-of-life-care. 2023).

Objective More than 90% of people spend time in hospital in the last year of life and, in many developed countries, hospitals are the setting in which most people will die. Previous research indicates ...

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 ...