Correspondence to Dr Maureen E Lyon, Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children's National Health System, Washington, DC 20010, USA; mlyon{at}childrensnational.org Objective To develop and pilot ...

Background Pain control is an essential component of high-quality palliative care. Unfortunately, many low-income and middle-income countries lack an appropriate infrastructure to provide palliative ...

Objectives Despite the demonstrated efficacy of physiotherapy in palliative care programmes, there are scarce data of its real-life impact on patients’ and caregivers’ wellness and stress. Our aim was ...

Objective Hospice at Home (HAH) services aim to enable patients to be cared for and die at home, if that is their choice and achieve a ‘good death’. A national survey, in 2017, aimed to describe and ...

Correspondence to Dr Niamh Mairéad Cleary, Regional Specialist Palliative Care Services, Dóchas Centre, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland; clearynm{at}tcd.ie Local skin site ...

Objectives This study aims to identify factors among British community-based adults associated with advance care planning engagement. Factors are then compared among six domains of wishes: medical ...

Background Modern radiotherapy (RT) planning techniques and the use of oral supportive care have reduced the occurrence of acute radiation-induced toxicities. Oral mucositis remains a major concern in ...

Correspondence to Dr Hiroto Ishiki, Department of palliative medicine, National Cancer Center Japan, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan; hishiki{at}ncc.go.jp Objectives The prognostic factors in patients ...

Background Approximately 5000 corneal transplants are required annually in the UK to address reversible sight-loss, 1 but there is a significant shortfall in available tissue. Eligible patients with ...

Background/Aims The End of Life Care Strategy for England has highlighted the delivery of high-quality end of life care in hospitals as an area of priority (Department of Health, 2008). The National ...

Results The pre-intervention surveys demonstrated a lack of confidence in Junior Doctors in assessing dying patients both before and after graduation with 30 out of 30 and 28 out of 30 candidates ...

Introduction Recent UK-based research revealed the complex role of lone working Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) who provide hospice care at home without direct supervision of a registered practitioner. 1 ...