Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and function between patients ...

Background The placebo effect may result in a 40% clinical improvement following administration of a non-active treatment. Complementary therapies such as reflexology are commonplace in palliative ...

Correspondence to Dr Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Palliative Care Unit, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark; mettneer{at}rm.dk Advance care planning (ACP) can be a ...

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

Correspondence to Professor Chia-Chin Lin, School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong, HKG000 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR; cclin{at}hku.hk Background Continuing futile life-sustaining treatment prolongs ...

Objectives Mortality trends among people living in long-term care settings have been poorly understood. Linking data offers the potential to provide real-world, long-term national follow-up. Our aim ...

Correspondence to Laura Lunardi, Renal Department, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia; laura.lunardi{at}sa.gov.au Background Identification of people with deteriorating ...

Objectives Terminally ill patients may require sedation to relieve refractory suffering. The prevalence and modalities of this practice in palliative care services remain unclear. This study estimated ...

Objectives To establish symptom prevalence and associated distress in a large cohort of UK patients with cancer referred to a palliative care team. Methods This is a secondary analysis of two large ...

Introduction Family caregiver’s involvement in advance care planning (ACP) is essential to provide high-quality end-of-life (EOL) care and to ease the surrogate decision-making burden. However, no ...

Background Controlled drugs (CDs) such as opioids and midazolam are commonly used in end-of-life care symptom management for care home residents. Aim To review the published evidence concerning the ...