Issue 1/2008
Content (19 Articles)
Palliative care for cancer patients in a primary health care setting: Bereaved relatives' experience, a qualitative group interview study
Mette Asbjoern Neergaard, Frede Olesen, Anders Bonde Jensen, Jens Sondergaard
Information from physicians and retention of information by patients – Obstacles to the awareness of patients of progressing disease when life is near the end
Lena Hoff, Göran Hermerén
Use of a Cybex NORM dynamometer to assess muscle function in patients with thoracic cancer
Andrew Wilcock, Matthew Maddocks, Mary Lewis, Paul Howard, Jacky Frisby, Sarah Bell, Bisharat El Khoury, Cathann Manderson, Helen Evans, Simon Mockett
Efficacy of a training intervention on the quality of practitioners' decision support for patients deciding about place of care at the end of life: A randomized control trial: Study protocol
Mary Ann Murray, Annette O'Connor, Dawn Stacey, Keith G Wilson
Self-perceived symptoms and care needs of patients with severe to very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure or chronic renal failure and its consequences for their closest relatives: the research protocol
Daisy JA Janssen, Emiel FM Wouters, Jos MGA Schols, Martijn A Spruit
A comparative analysis of computer based hospice palliative care datasets in Canada
Craig E Kuziemsky, Francis Lau
Randomised controlled trial of a new palliative care service: Compliance, recruitment and completeness of follow-up
Irene J Higginson, Sam Hart, Rachel Burman, Eli Silber, Tariq Saleem, Polly Edmonds
Palliative care in advanced dementia; A mixed methods approach for the development of a complex intervention
Elizabeth L Sampson, Ingela Thuné-Boyle, Riitta Kukkastenvehmas, Louise Jones, Adrian Tookman, Michael King, Martin R Blanchard
A reassuring presence: An evaluation of Bradford District Hospice at Home service
Beverley Lucas, Neil Small, Peter Greasley, Andrew Daley
A reliability and validity study of the Palliative Performance Scale
Francis Ho, Francis Lau, Michael G Downing, Mary Lesperance
Emergency calls and need for emergency care in patients looked after by a palliative care team: Retrospective interview study with bereaved relatives
Christoph HR Wiese, Andrea Vossen-Wellmann, Hannah C Morgenthal, Aron F Popov, Bernhard M Graf, Gerd G Hanekop
Family meetings in palliative care: Multidisciplinary clinical practice guidelines
Peter Hudson, Karen Quinn, Brendan O'Hanlon, Sanchia Aranda
How useful are systematic reviews for informing palliative care practice? Survey of 25 Cochrane systematic reviews
Bee Wee, Gina Hadley, Sheena Derry
An evaluation of Canada's Compassionate Care Benefit from a family caregiver's perspective at end of life
Valorie A Crooks, Allison Williams
Caregivers' active role in palliative home care – to encourage or to dissuade? A qualitative descriptive study
Anna Weibull, Frede Olesen, Mette Asbjoern Neergaard
Prevalence of distressing symptoms in hospitalised patients on medical wards: A cross-sectional study
Katrin Ruth Sigurdardottir, Dagny Faksvåg Haugen
A randomized, double-blind comparison of OROS®hydromorphone and controlled-release morphine for the control of chronic cancer pain
Magdi Hanna, John Thipphawong
General practitioners' use and experiences of palliative care services: a survey in south east England
Sabrina Bajwah, Irene J Higginson
Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey
David C Currow, Katrina Allen, John Plummer, Samar Aoun, Meg Hegarty, Amy P Abernethy