Objective Huachansu, a Chinese medicine derived from the dried skin glands of toad venom, has been used in China since the 1970s to treat liver cancer. Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is the ...

Objectives Our objective was to analyse the policies of hospitals and care homes in England as regards the use of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) recommendations. We sought to ...

Objectives Palliative care phases (stable, unstable, deteriorating, terminal and bereavement) are useful in describing the palliative care situation of patients/relatives and their care needs as well ...

Purpose Malnutrition severely impacts tolerance to anticancer therapies, but any relationship with overall survival (OS) at the time of solid tumour diagnosis in outpatients in the USA remains unclear ...

Virtual reality interventions for mental health and well-being in palliative care: systematic review and narrative synthesis – outcomes, techniques, processes and mechanisms ...

Chronic breathlessness is a disabling and distressing condition for which there is a growing evidence base for a range of interventions. Non-pharmacological interventions are the mainstay of ...

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 ...

Objectives Globally, cancer deaths are rising. In low-and-middle-income countries, there is a gap in access to palliative care (PC). We designed a feasibility trial to study the initiation of early PC ...

Correspondence to Dr Christine Miaskowski, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; chris.miaskowski{at}nursing.ucsf.edu Objectives Improved understanding of the stability ...

Background Health services must meet the needs of patients and their families. The Outcome Assessment and Complexity Collaborative (OACC) collated a suite of measures to capture and demonstrate this ...

Background Parenteral nutrition (PN) and palliative venting gastrostomies (PVG) are two interventions used clinically to manage inoperable malignant bowel obstruction (MBO); however, little is known ...

Objectives We aimed to explore the association between receiving an inpatient palliative care consultation and hospital outcomes, including in-hospital death, intensive care unit (ICU) use, discharge ...