Does voluntary assisted dying impact quality palliative care? A retrospective mixed-method study ...

4 Henrietta Szold-Hadassah–Hebrew University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Interprofessional ...

Background Spiritual care allows palliative care patients to gain a sense of purpose, meaning and connectedness to the sacred or important while experiencing a ...

Correspondence to Mark Taubert, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre University NHS Trust and Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Caerdydd CF14 2TL, UK; ...

Objectives Palliative patients generally prefer to be cared for and die at home. Overly aggressive treatments place additional strain on already burdened patients and healthcare services, contributing ...

Objectives Our work aims to critically review the use of anticipatory medicines in our inner-city hospice community population and whether our current practices are fit for purpose. Methods ...

Objectives Assisted dying has been legally available in Oregon in the USA for 25 years, since when official reports have been published each year detailing the number of people who have used this ...

Objectives To examine the effects of nurse-led interventions on the health-related quality of life, symptom burden and self-management/behavioural outcomes in women ...

Background Legacy—how one hopes to be remembered after death—is an unexplored and important dimension of decision-making for people facing serious illness. Objectives We conducted a scoping review to ...

Objective To review available published research that has explored how terminally ill patients feel about being involved in undergraduate medical teaching. Methods A systematic review using narrative ...

Objectives Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) symptom is one of the side effects of paclitaxel in breast cancer patients. This randomised controlled study was conducted to investigate ...

Correspondence to Dr Min Yan, Department of Breast Disease, Henan Breast Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University & Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; ...