Background Despite caring for large numbers of people, the community palliative care sector is underrepresented in clinical research. People receiving community palliative care are frequently older, ...

Background Tan Tock Seng Hospital’s (TTSH’s) Home Ventilation and Respiratory Support Service (HVRSS) has managed patients with chronic, progressive neurological diseases requiring home ventilation ...

Background The placebo effect may result in a 40% clinical improvement following administration of a non-active treatment. Complementary therapies such as reflexology are commonplace in palliative ...

Background Decision-making in palliative care usually involves both patients and family caregivers. However, how concordance and discordance in decision-making manifest and function between patients ...

Correspondence to Professor Chia-Chin Lin, School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong, HKG000 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR; cclin{at}hku.hk Background Continuing futile life-sustaining treatment prolongs ...

Most people die when they are old, but predicting exactly when this will occur is unavoidably uncertain. The health of older people is challenged by multimorbidity, disability and frailty. Frailty is ...

Objectives Assessing whether interventions are implemented as intended (fidelity) is critical to establishing efficacy in clinical research yet rarely applied in advance care planning (ACP) ...

2 Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK Correspondence to Jill F Pattenden, Health Sciences, University of York, Seebohm Rowntree Building, Area 4, Alcuin College, Heslington, York ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason W Boland, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; Jason.Boland{at}hyms.ac.uk Objectives There is increased interest in cannabinoids for cancer pain ...

Background There is a national drive to support patients in their preferred place of choice and a need to reduce the number of unnecessary hospital admissions (Department of Health, 2008; National ...

Background End-of-life care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are the focus of growing attention in Europe, due to rapidly increasing number of older persons living in LTCFs. The ...