Relational nature of decision-making between patients with advanced illness and their caregivers in palliative care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis ...

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Background To ensure patients and families receive appropriate end-of-life care pathways and guidelines aim to inform clinical decision making. Ensuring appropriate outcomes through the use of these ...

Correspondence to Dr Min Yan, Department of Breast Disease, Henan Breast Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University & Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; ...

Background One in four UK adults are deaf, rising to 80% of the over 70s (Akeroyd, Munro. Int J Audiol. 2024;63(9):659-660) – therefore deaf people represent a high proportion of those interacting ...

Background Supportive care is a commonly provided health service for people with cancer, but less is known about how this model of care is implemented in populations with non-malignant, but ...

Objective This study aimed to evaluate factors affecting nutrition and weight loss in patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) undergoing radiotherapy (RT) and investigate the effect of nurse-led ...

Objectives To compare the incidence of febrile neutropenia (FN) and chemotherapy delays (CD) due to neutropenia in chemotherapy cycles in which pegfilgrastim (PGF) was administered on the same day (D0 ...

Objectives To assess the feasibility, safety and preliminary efficacy of psilocybin-assisted therapy (PAT) for demoralisation in terminally ill patients receiving home hospice care. Methods In this ...

Background Children’s hospices have been central to providing care for children with complex and palliative care needs in the UK since the first children’s hospice opened in Oxford in 1982. Since then ...

Objectives Hospitals remain the most common place of death in the UK, with 30% of inpatients in their last year of life. National policies emphasise early identification and proactive planning to ...

Introduction Care homes play a significant role in caring for older adults at the end of their lives. Residents often have multiple long-term conditions (MLTC), complex care needs, and unpredictable ...