Introduction Primary care has a central role in palliative and end of life care: 45.6% of deaths in England and Wales occur under the care of primary care teams at home or in care homes. The Community ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Gemma Claire Lee, Intensive Care, Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, FY3 8NR Blackpool, UK; gemma.lee9{at}nhs.net Background The Internal Medicine Training (IMT) ...

Correspondence to Helen P A Driessen, Department of Psychiatry, Section Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands; h.driessen{at}erasmusmc.nl ...

Correspondence to Professor Chia-Chin Lin, School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong, HKG000 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR; cclin{at}hku.hk Background Continuing futile life-sustaining treatment prolongs ...

Background Patient and public involvement (PPI) is an established component of high quality palliative care research. The way patients and public are involved in research differs between and across ...

Objective Appropriate communication between healthcare providers and patients and their families is an essential part of good (palliative) care. We investigated whether implementation of a ...

Objectives Outpatient in-person early palliative care improves quality of life for patients with advanced cancer. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a rapid shift to telehealth visits; however, little is ...

Correspondence to Josie Dixon, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; j.e.dixon{at}lse.ac.uk Objectives ...