Introduction The National Audit of Care at the End of Life reports the quality of care provided to people dying in hospital. This paper reports the bereavement (quality) survey data about the families ...

The multidisciplinary care of people with motor neuron disease (MND), also known as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is now widely established and recommended in several guidelines.1 2 However, ...

Background Research has found that caring affects carers physically, mentally, and emotionally (Davidson & Gentry, 2013; Carers UK, 2020), with many carers reporting getting no breaks at all (Carers ...

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 Within England, increasing numbers of frail patients are receiving support from community-based specialist palliative care services (Polak, Hopkins, Barclay, et al. Br J Gen Pract. 70(699), ...

Introduction Patients with ventilator-dependent motor neuron disease (MND) may request withdrawal of their assisted ventilation. Facilitating this process as a healthcare professional (HCP) can be ...

Medical communication at end-of-life in palliative care units: nationwide bereavement family survey ...

Routine data (ie, data collected for clinical or administrative purposes) have long been used to describe and quantify end-of-life experiences, including inequitable outcomes. For example, studies ...

Background Delirium is a debilitating disorder with high prevalence near the end of life, impacting quality of life of patients and their relatives. Timely recognition of delirium can lead to ...

Objectives To conduct a scoping review to explore the evidence of the process of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decision-making. Methods We conducted a systematic search and ...

Context Investigators in palliative care rely heavily on routinely collected data, which carry risk of unobserved confounding and selection bias. ‘Natural experiments’ offer opportunities to generate ...

Objectives The study aimed to determine and validate cut-off points for selected inflammatory markers to predict 30-day, 60-day and 90-day survival in patients with incurable cancer exclusively ...