Dignity therapy in cancer palliative care: meaning and resignification of life—a qualitative study (1 July, 2025) ...

Introduction Racism is an underlying cause of inequity in health. Little is known about whether and how racism is experienced within specialist palliative care services. Aims To explore whether and ...

Background Over 940,000 people in the UK are thought to be living with dementia (Dementia UK. Trustees’ annual report and consolidated financial statements. 2022), yet people with dementia have not ...

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 ...

Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of short subcutaneous infusions (SSCIs) for refractory symptoms in the palliative setting. Methods A retrospective chart review of SSCIs in a single ...

Background Agitation is a common symptom at the end of life; without prompt assessment and management it can cause significant distress to patients and relatives. Clinical practice in the ...

Background As part of a collaborative project, two hospices agreed to audit medical on-call activity for 12 weeks. Previous on-call audits had required doctors to record activity on a spreadsheet or ...

4 Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Scott A Murray, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health ...

Background Terminal agitation is a common symptom at the end of life. An audit of patients with terminal agitation in our inpatient unit (IPU) showed no patients with terminal agitation were assessed ...

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 Breathlessness is a common symptom experienced by people with advanced respiratory disease (Spathis, Booth, Moffat, et al. NPJ Prim Care Respir Med. 2017;27(1):27) and cancer (Hui, Maddocks ...

6 School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences,University of Salford, Salford, UK Correspondence to Dr Karen Shaw, School of Health and Population Sciences, College of Medical and ...