Correspondence to Dr Sally Taylor, Christie Patient Centred Research Team, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester M20 4BX, Manchester, UK; sally.taylor38{at}nhs.net Objectives A prospective ...

Objectives Development of evidence-based good practice recommendations for clinicians considering the use of antibiotics in patients towards the end of life. Design A multiprofessional group of ...

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 ...

Introduction The rising global prevalence of cancer reveals significant regional disparities in palliative care adoption. While some countries have incorporated palliative care into their systems, ...

Background The aim of this systematic review and meta-analysis is to compare the complication rates of enteral nutrition (EN) (oral or tube feeding (TF)) and parenteral nutrition (PN) in patients with ...

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 ...

Background Seizures are a distressing event, especially in patients at the end of life, when a significant proportion also lose the oral route for medications. Recently, an evaluation was done ...

Background Following recruitment of a large number of new nurses to a district general hospital, it was identified that this group of staff lacked confidence when having conversations with, and caring ...

Introduction Little is known about the use of outcome measures (OM) by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) in palliative care. This review aimed to identify studies using validated OMs in adults ...

Background People with 2 or more chronic conditions (multimorbidity) are at risk of receiving fragmented and inefficient care. In order to develop a nurse-led intervention for people with ...