Background Lung cancer is the most common cancer and smoking is the principal cause. Due to poor survival rates, symptom palliation and promotion of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are primary ...

2 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Christopher J McDermott, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), ...

Objective The primary objective of the study was to determine the relative importance of place of death to patients with advanced cancer being treated at a cancer centre in England. Methods ...

Methods Cochrane Controlled Register of Trials (CENTRAL), Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL), Medline and Embase databases were searched (January 1999 to May 2019) to ...

Objectives There is limited evidence of the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study on deaths of all patients known to a hospice in a 2.5-year ...

Objective To evaluate the care of patients dying in hospital without support from specialists in palliative care (SPC), better understand their needs and factors influencing their care. Methods ...

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 The ReSPECT process facilitates personalized emergency care recommendations. It has been in use in Guildford and Waverley since 2019 and is expanding across the Frimley Integrated Care ...

3 Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore, Singapore, Republic of Singapore Correspondence to Grace Meijuan Yang, Department of Palliative Medicine, National Cancer ...

Correspondence to Dr Katherine E Sleeman, Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King’s College London, London SE5 9PJ, UK; Katherine.sleeman{at}kcl.ac.uk Objectives ...

4 Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Scott A Murray, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health ...

2 Department of Palliative Medicine, Douglas Macmillan Hospice, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, UK 3 Department of Anaesthetics, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust, Stoke-on-Trent, ...