Issue 1/2013
Content (44 Articles)
Decision-making capacity and communication about care of older people during their last three months of life
Pam J Kaspers, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Dorly JH Deeg, H Roeline W Pasman
Impact of a home-based social welfare program on care for palliative patients in the Basque Country (SAIATU Program)
Emilio Herrera Molina, Roberto Nuño-Solinis, Gorka Espiau Idioaga, Silvia Librada Flores, Naomi Hasson, Juan F Orueta Medía
Planning ahead with children with life-limiting conditions and their families: development, implementation and evaluation of ‘My Choices’
Jane Noyes, Richard P Hastings, Mary Lewis, Richard Hain, Virginia Bennett, Lucie Hobson, Llinos Haf Spencer
The case for home based telehealth in pediatric palliative care: a systematic review
Natalie Bradford, Nigel R Armfield, Jeanine Young, Anthony C Smith
Developing children’s palliative care in Africa through beacon centres: lessons learnt
Julia D Downing, Joan Marston, Casey Selwyn, Laura Ross-Gakava
Symptom burden, palliative care need and predictors of physical and psychological discomfort in two UK hospitals
Tony Ryan, Christine Ingleton, Clare Gardiner, Chris Parker, Merryn Gott, Bill Noble
What is the extent of potentially avoidable admissions amongst hospital inpatients with palliative care needs?
Merryn Gott, Clare Gardiner, Christine Ingleton, Mark Cobb, Bill Noble, Michael I Bennett, Jane Seymour
Early evaluation predicts pain relief of irradiated bone metastases: a single-center prospective study
Pierre Truntzer, David Atlani, Marius Pop, Jean-Baptiste Clavier, Sébastien Guihard, Catherine Schumacher, Georges Noel
Towards a standardized method of developing quality indicators for palliative care: protocol of the Quality indicators for Palliative Care (Q-PAC) study
Kathleen Leemans, Joachim Cohen, Anneke L Francke, Robert Vander Stichele, Susanne JJ Claessen, Lieve Van den Block, Luc Deliens
De-tabooing dying control - a grounded theory study
Hans O Thulesius, Helen Scott, Gert Helgesson, Niels Lynöe
Evidence for the use of Levomepromazine for symptom control in the palliative care setting: a systematic review
Isabel Dietz, Andrea Schmitz, Ingrid Lampey, Christian Schulz
International recommendations for outpatient palliative care and prehospital palliative emergencies – a prospective questionnaire-based investigation
Christoph HR Wiese, Christoph L Lassen, Utz E Bartels, Mahmoud Taghavi, Saleem Elhabash, Bernhard M Graf, Gerd G Hanekop
Factors associated with place of death in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Aderaw Anteneh, Tekebash Araya, Awoke Misganaw
Heterogeneity and changes in preferences for dying at home: a systematic review
Barbara Gomes, Natalia Calanzani, Marjolein Gysels, Sue Hall, Irene J Higginson
BMC Palliative Care reviewer acknowledgement, 2012
Hayley Henderson
Palliative care need and management in the acute hospital setting: a census of one New Zealand Hospital
Merryn Gott, Rosemary Frey, Deborah Raphael, Anne O’Callaghan, Jackie Robinson, Michal Boyd
Determinants of place of death: a population-based retrospective cohort study
Jyothi Jayaraman, KS Joseph
Using aggregated single patient (N-of-1) trials to determine the effectiveness of psychostimulants to reduce fatigue in advanced cancer patients: a rationale and protocol
Hugh EJ Senior, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Jane Nikles, Sue-Ann Carmont, Philip J Schluter, David C Currow, Rohan Vora, Michael J Yelland, Meera Agar, Phillip D Good, Janet R Hardy
Evidence-based planning and costing palliative care services for children: novel multi-method epidemiological and economic exemplar
Jane Noyes, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Richard P Hastings, Richard Hain, Vasiliki Totsika, Virginia Bennett, Lucie Hobson, Gareth R Davies, Ciarán Humphreys, Mary Devins, Llinos Haf Spencer, Mary Lewis
Home-based functional walking program for advanced cancer patients receiving palliative care: a case series
Sonya S Lowe, Sharon M Watanabe, Vickie E Baracos, Kerry S Courneya
The development of an instrument that can identify children with palliative care needs: the Paediatric Palliative Screening Scale (PaPaS Scale): a qualitative study approach
Eva Bergstraesser, Richard D Hain, José L Pereira
Dysphagia as a predictor of outcome and transition to palliative care among middle cerebral artery ischemic stroke patients
Christa O’Hana V San Luis, Ilene Staff, Gilbert J Fortunato, Louise D McCullough
Lung cancer diagnosed following emergency admission: a mixed methods study protocol to improve understanding of patients’ characteristics, needs, experiences and outcomes
Andrew Wilcock, Vincent Crosby, Sarah Freer, Alison Freemantle, Glenys Caswell, Jane Seymour
Is the effect of non-invasive ventilation on survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis age-dependent?
Waltteri Siirala, Riku Aantaa, Klaus T Olkkola, Tarja Saaresranta, Arno Vuori
Improving palliative care outcomes for Aboriginal Australians: service providers’ perspectives
Shaouli Shahid, Dawn Bessarab, Katherine D van Schaik, Samar M Aoun, Sandra C Thompson
Family members’ perceptions of end-of-life care across diverse locations of care
Romayne Gallagher, Marian Krawczyk
Musculoskeletal pain in older adults at the end-of-life: a systematic search and critical review of the literature with priorities for future research
Alison Kate Lillie, Sue Read, Christian Mallen, Peter Croft, John McBeth
Challenges and strategies in the administration of a population based mortality follow-back survey design
Beverley Lawson, Kristine Van Aarsen, Frederick Burge
Feedback on end-of-life care in dementia: the study protocol of the FOLlow-up project
Jannie A Boogaard, Mirjam C van Soest-Poortvliet, Johannes R Anema, Wilco P Achterberg, Cees M P M Hertogh, Henrica C W de Vet, Jenny T van der Steen
Modelling the landscape of palliative care for people with dementia: a European mixed methods study
Steve Iliffe, Nathan Davies, Myrra Vernooij-Dassen, Jasper van Riet Paap, Ragni Sommerbakk, Elena Mariani, Birgit Jaspers, Lukas Radbruch, Jill Manthorpe, Laura Maio, Dagny Haugen, Yvonne Engels
Novel open-source electronic medical records system for palliative care in low-resource settings
Kamal G Shah, Tara Lyn Slough, Ping Teresa Yeh, Suave Gombwa, Athanase Kiromera, Z Maria Oden, Rebecca R Richards-Kortum
Public awareness and attitudes toward palliative care in Northern Ireland
Sonja McIlfatrick, Felicity Hasson, Dorry McLaughlin, Gail Johnston, Audrey Roulston, Lesley Rutherford, Helen Noble, Sheila Kelly, Avril Craig, W George Kernohan
Palliative care research on the island of Ireland over the last decade: a systematic review and thematic analysis of peer reviewed publications
Sonja J McIlfatrick, Tara Murphy
A qualitative study examining the sustainability of shared care in the delivery of palliative care services in the community
Lily DeMiglio, Allison M Williams
Evaluation of the living with hope program for rural women caregivers of persons with advanced cancer
Wendy Duggleby, Allison Williams, Lorraine Holstlander, Dan Cooper, Sunita Ghosh, Lars K Hallstrom, Roanne Thomas McLean, Mary Hampton
'My dreams are shuttered down and it hurts lots’–a qualitative study of palliative care needs and their management by HIV outpatient services in Kenya and Uganda
Lucy Selman, Victoria Simms, Suzanne Penfold, Richard A Powell, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Julia Downing, Nancy Gikaara, Grace Munene, Irene J Higginson, Richard Harding
A randomised, multicentre clinical trial of specialised palliative care plus standard treatment versus standard treatment alone for cancer patients with palliative care needs: the Danish palliative care trial (DanPaCT) protocol
Anna T Johnsen, Anette Damkier, Tove B Vejlgaard, Jane Lindschou, Per Sjøgren, Christian Gluud, Mette A Neergaard, Morten Aa Petersen, Lena E Lundorff, Lise Pedersen, Peter Fayers, Annette S Strömgren, Irene J Higginson, Mogens Groenvold
Preliminary estimation of the prevalence of chemotherapy-induced dysgeusia in Japanese patients with cancer
Hiroo Imai, Hiroshi Soeda, Keigo Komine, Kazunori Otsuka, Hiroyuki Shibata
Interventions to encourage discussion of end-of-life preferences between members of the general population and the people closest to them - a systematic literature review
Katharine Abba, Paula Byrne, Siobhan Horton, Mari Lloyd-Williams
Cancer-related neuropathic pain in out-patient oncology clinics: a European survey
Cristina Garzón-Rodríguez, Leonidas Lyras, Luis Olay Gayoso, Juan M Sepúlveda, Epaminondas Samantas, Uwe Pelzer, Sarah Bowen, Chantal van Litsenburg, Mette Strand
Place of death in haematological malignancy: variations by disease sub-type and time from diagnosis to death
Debra A Howell, Han-I Wang, Alexandra G Smith, Martin R Howard, Russell D Patmore, Eve Roman
Paediatric palliative care: development and pilot study of a ‘Directory’ of life-limiting conditions
Richard Hain, Mary Devins, Richard Hastings, Jayne Noyes
Hope against hope: exploring the hopes and challenges of rural female caregivers of persons with advanced cancer
Allison Williams, Wendy Duggleby, Jeanette Eby, Reverend Dan Cooper, Lars K Hallstrom, Lorraine Holtslander, Roanne Thomas
Do pilocarpine drops help dry mouth in palliative care patients: a protocol for an aggregated series of n-of-1 trials
Jane Nikles, Geoffrey K Mitchell, Janet Hardy, Meera Agar, Hugh Senior, Sue-Ann Carmont, Philip J Schluter, Phillip Good, Rohan Vora, David Currow