Background Patients at the end of life often suffer from urinary difficulties. A systematic review (Farrington et al, in press) found minimal research to indicate how these difficulties should be ...

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 Martin J Powell, Lancaster University Faculty of Health and Medicine, Lancaster LA1 4YG, UK; martinpowell2014{at}gmail.com Background Nurses in inpatient palliative care are ...

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

Background The increase in the numbers of patients requiring palliative care input prior to death, and a global economic situation where few countries are able to invest further in specialist ...

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 ...

Background Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a well established, unique therapy for certain severe cardiorespiratory failure as well as in the setting of cardiac arrest. There is scarce ...

Background Virtual reality (VR) technology as a therapeutic intervention has been gaining attention in healthcare settings in recent years. Studies suggest that using the technology can help alleviate ...

Background 15%–20% of critical care patients die during their hospital admission. This service evaluation assesses quality of palliative care in intensive care units (ICUs) compared with national ...

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 ...

The spread of pandemic COVID-19 has created unprecedented need for information. The pandemic is the cause of significant mortality and with this the need for rapidly disseminated information for ...

Correspondence to Dr Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Palliative Care Unit, Department of Oncology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus 8200, Denmark; mettneer{at}rm.dk Advance care planning (ACP) can be a ...