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 ...

Introduction Little is known about the use of outcome measures (OM) by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) in palliative care. This review aimed to identify studies using validated OMs in adults ...

Background People with 2 or more chronic conditions (multimorbidity) are at risk of receiving fragmented and inefficient care. In order to develop a nurse-led intervention for people with ...

Objectives This paper (1) sought to compare sleep, mood and physical symptom profiles of men with prostate cancer (PCa) who experienced subjective and objective cancer-related cognitive impairment ...

Background Seizures are a distressing event, especially in patients at the end of life, when a significant proportion also lose the oral route for medications. Recently, an evaluation was done ...

Correspondence to Professor Marilene Filbet, Palliative care, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon 69008, France; marilene.filbet{at}chu-lyon.fr Objectives To evaluate the influence of art therapy in ...

Background Services are under pressure, budgets are tighter and like many healthcare providers, the hospice is struggling to fill Band 5 Registered Nurse vacancies. Various exciting new opportunities ...

Background Community case palliative and end-of-life care for children and young people (CYP) under the care of a children’s hospice in England is provided locally by both statutory and voluntary ...

Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been significant efforts to support more people to remain at home at the end of life. In Fife, Scotland, at the beginning of the pandemic, a ...