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 ...

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

Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical ...

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 ...

Background Spiritual care allows palliative care patients to gain a sense of purpose, meaning and connectedness to the sacred or important while experiencing a serious illness. This study examined how ...

Background The prompt availability of medications to manage symptoms is key to high quality end-of-life care and anticipatory prescribing of these drugs is thought good practice. This study explored ...

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; ...

Objectives Palliative patients generally prefer to be cared for and die at home. Overly aggressive treatments place additional strain on already burdened patients and healthcare services, contributing ...

Objectives Assisted dying has been legally available in Oregon in the USA for 25 years, since when official reports have been published each year detailing the number of people who have used 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 ...

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 ...

Objectives Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) symptom is one of the side effects of paclitaxel in breast cancer patients. This randomised controlled study was conducted to investigate ...