Objective Literature identifies that doctors struggle in navigating ethical issues at the end of life. Residents look to ...

Background Patients with cancer frequently have unmet palliative care needs yet timely integration of palliative care in ...

Objectives Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders limit the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but are often interpreted more ...

Background With advances in health technologies, more people with motor neurone disease (MND) can be supported to live at home with interventions that sustain and prolong life such as ventilators and ...

Objectives More than 50% of people who die in England and Wales use an ambulance at least once in their last 3 months of life, and around 50% attend the emergency department (ED). In Bradford, an ...

Objectives Despite increasing demand for palliative and end-of-life care, the funding for research in this area has historically been low. Previous UK analyses in 2016 found that less than 0.3% of the ...

Background Cognitive dysfunction is a prevalent and debilitating complication among patients with glioma, significantly affecting their independence, treatment adherence, and quality of life (QoL).

Objectives To analyse patient-reported concerns regarding palliative chemotherapy using text mining and to identify how these concerns evolve according to treatment phase and patient characteristics.

Palliative care is a clinical, interprofessional discipline focusing on improving quality of life through holistic assessment and support for people experiencing physical, psychological, social, or ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicola White, Division of Psychiatry, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Departent, University College London, London W1T7NF, UK; n.g.white{at}ucl.ac.uk Objectives To determine ...

Background Today, euthanasia has become the option for terminally ill persons, in order to die with dignity. Palliative care on the other hand seeks to re-assure people with terminal or chronic ...

Objective Consideration of quality of life (QoL) in people with end-stage renal disease has become an important part of treatment decision-making. The aim of this study was to report on QoL and other ...