Background Living with advanced, incurable disease presents multifaceted adversities which negatively impact on various domains of well-being (McCaffrey, Bradley, Ratcliffe et al., 2016). Whilst ...

4 Henrietta Szold-Hadassah–Hebrew University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Interprofessional ...

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

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 The use of virtual reality (VR) is increasing in palliative care. However, despite increasing interest in VR, there is little evidence of how this technology can be implemented into ...

Background Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer among women worldwide. We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis to cover the existing research gap and contribute to existing ...

Correspondence to Mark Taubert, Honorary Senior Lecturer and Consultant in Palliative Medicine, Velindre University NHS Trust and Cardiff University School of Medicine, Cardiff, Caerdydd CF14 2TL, UK; ...

Correspondence to Helen P A Driessen, Department of Psychiatry, Section Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands; h.driessen{at}erasmusmc.nl ...

Background Spiritual care allows palliative care patients to gain a sense of purpose, meaning and connectedness to the sacred or important while experiencing a ...

Introduction Multiple studies have questioned the benefit of neutropenic diets in decreasing infections in patients with cancer, but recent surveys showed that such diets are still prescribed. In this ...

Background Legacy—how one hopes to be remembered after death—is an unexplored and important dimension of decision-making for people facing serious illness. Objectives We conducted a scoping review to ...

Palliative care for adults with neuromuscular conditions is an emerging field. Previous guidelines regarding myotonic dystrophy and palliative care have only mentioned end-of-life care and little else ...