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), ...
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care accepts submissions of a wide range of article types, including Research Papers, Reviews and Educational pieces. The Author Information section provides specific ...
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 ...
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 Professor Jessica Corner, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southampton, Building 67, University Rd, Highfield Campus, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK; J.L.Corner{at}soton.ac.uk ...
Background In oncology, early palliative care enhances quality of life and may increase survival; yet, because of resource limitations and overestimation of prognosis, referrals frequently happen late ...
Drug licensing in veterinary euthanasia and assisted suicide in humans: a regulatory double standard
In the United Kingdom (UK), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA)1 serves as the principal medicines regulatory authority, operating under the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 ...
Objectives To compare the incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) and chemotherapy delays (CD) due to neutropenia in chemotherapy cycles in which pegfilgrastim (PGF) was administered on the same day (D0 ...
Objectives To assess the feasibility, safety and preliminary efficacy of psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) for demoralisation in terminally ill patients receiving home hospice care. Methods In this ...
A 70–80 year-old man with ischaemic cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure and chronic kidney disease is admitted with worsening shortness of breath. Over several days, his kidney function ...
Objectives Hospitals remain the most common place of death in the UK, with 30% of inpatients in their last year of life. National policies emphasise early identification and proactive planning to ...
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