Interventions and antibiotic use at the end of life: a hospital palliative care team analysis ...

Correspondence to Professor Irene J Higginson, King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Bessemer Road, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9PJ, ...

Background New technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), supported by novel ways of linking and analysing data, are transforming the way that healthcare data is analysed. AI is increasingly ...

Objectives Hospital admission (HA) in cancer history is a common, repeated and frequently unplanned event. The emergency departments (EDs) and the oncological outpatient service (OOS) are the ordinary ...

Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of pegfilgrastim administered on the day of chemotherapy completion (same day) versus at least 1 day after chemotherapy (next day). Methods We ...

Background Appropriate rapid discharge planning supports discharge to where the person wants to be cared for at EOL. This involves transfer of care over different settings. This evaluation assessed ...

Background Compassion can be defined as the sensitivity to distress of self and others with a commitment to try and do something about it and prevent it. Compassionate care can positively influence ...

Background Communication about the end of life is especially important in the family context, as patients and their families are considered as the care unit in palliative care. Open end-of-life ...

Correspondence to Dr Shingen Nakamura, Department of Community Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of Tokushima Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan; ...

Over 10,000 Bosnian refugees came to the UK, mainly in 1995, fleeing from war zones or concentration camps at the height of the holocaust. The Bosnian and Herzegovina UK Network (BHUKN) was set up in ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 3 School of Nursing, ...

The following self-analysis contains key experiences of maternal grief over the course of the first 2 years following the death of a child, with specific examples and observations from bereaved ...