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Enhanced patient research participation: a Photovoice study in Blantyre Malawi
Objectives Patient involvement in palliative care research is a desirable if challenging goal. Photovoice is an action research method in which affected communities gather photographs to document and ...
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Inflammatory marker cut-off points and prognosis in incurable cancer: validation study
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 ...
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Communication barriers experienced by paediatric palliative care staff when interacting with children, young people and families: a literature review
Background A recent Department of Health funded evaluation of West Midlands Children and Young People's Palliative Care services disclosed that staff reported concerns about their ability to ...
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Patients want to be involved in end-of-life care research
1 Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool (MCPCIL), University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK 2 Institute of Translational Medicine, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK Correspondence to Dr ...
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Gynaecologic oncology referrals to specialist palliative care in a tertiary referral centre: population, characteristics and outcomes ...
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Meaning in life and quality of life: palliative care patients versus the general population
Background and objectives Meaning in life (MIL) represent a key topic in palliative care. The aims of this study were to explore (1) the differences in perceived MIL and in the meaning-relevant life ...
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Association between parenteral fluids and symptoms in hospital end-of-life care: an observational study of 280 patients
Correspondence to Dr Anna Fritzson, Department of Radiation Sciences, Umeå University, Umeå S-901 87, Sweden; annafritzson{at}hotmail.com Objectives To investigate whether dying patients receiving ...
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Futile life-sustaining treatment in the intensive care unit – nurse and physician experiences: meta-synthesis
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 ...
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Vitamin D supplementation to palliative cancer patients: protocol of a double-blind, randomised controlled trial ‘Palliative-D’
Background According to a small pilot study on palliative cancer patients at our ward, vitamin D supplementation had beneficial effects on pain (measured as opioid consumption), infections and quality ...
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Family meetings in paediatric palliative care: an integrative review
Correspondence to Dr Natalie Bradford, Centre for Healthcare Transformation at Centre for Children's Health Research, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; ...
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PP-33 The privilege of being listened to: a different perspective on social disadvantage and privilege at the end-of-life
Introduction Disparities in access to quality palliative and end-of-life care continue to persist based on ethnicity, disability, poverty, gender and sexuality. Work to explain or address this health ...
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Peripheral neuropathy from paclitaxel: risk prediction by serum microRNAs
Objectives MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have recently been reported as useful diagnostic markers in cancer; however, relationships of miRNAs with adverse events during chemotherapy have yet to be fully ...