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Blood transfusions in palliative medicine and symptom control in solid tumours ...

1 Menzies Centre for Health Policy, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2 The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 3 Waikato Institute of ...

Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well ...

Objective Hospice at Home (HAH) services aim to enable patients to be cared for and die at home, if that is their choice and achieve a ‘good death’. A national survey, in 2017, aimed to describe and ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Mary Kearney, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, ...

Background The delivery of end-of-life care in nursing homes is challenging. This situation is of concern as 20% of the population die in this setting. Commonly reported reasons include limited access ...

Correspondence to Dr Rosemary Frey, School of Nursing, FMHS, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand; r.frey{at}auckland.ac.nz Context Central to appropriate palliative ...

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

Background A growing body of research indicates that physicians suffer high levels of stress, depression and burnout. Related literature has found that physician stress can negatively impact patient ...

Palliative care, since its inception over 60 years ago, has set the standard of how to care for people who are dying. Key features among these standards have been the professional development of ...

Correspondence to Dr Salmani Naiire, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd 14115, Iran; n.salmani{at}sbmu.ac.ir Background One of the barriers to the integration of ...