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Sodium oxybate versus midazolam for end-of-life continuous deep sedation: a randomised controlled trial ...

Objectives There is limited evidence of the impact of advance care planning (ACP) on outcomes. We conducted a retrospective cohort study on deaths of all patients known to a hospice in a 2.5-year ...

Background The ReSPECT process facilitates personalized emergency care recommendations. It has been in use in Guildford and Waverley since 2019 and is expanding across the Frimley Integrated Care ...

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 Early identification of suicidal ideation would allow more opportunities for intervention and may ultimately reduce risk of suicide. Knowing when patients are likely to voice suicidal ...

Objectives As societal debates around assisted suicide persist, understanding the factors influencing individual attitudes is essential. Health literacy (HL) and end-of-life HL (EOL-HL) are critical ...

The Cancer Moonshot Program aims to reduce cancer mortality by 50% within 25 years through innovation in early detection, precision medicine and novel therapies. However, achieving this goal requires ...

Background Nurses play a unique and critical role in palliative care, and it is noteworthy that nurses often encounter ethical dilemmas in this field. Objective This review aims to conduct a ...

Objectives Communicating prognosis and changes in a patient’s condition is essential in patient-centred care. However, little is known about how families experience medical communication during the ...

Objectives To facilitate earlier access to palliative care (PC) for interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients, a combined ILD-PC clinic was launched at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. We describe ...

Background Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is used to treat refractory symptoms at the end of life. Phenobarbital is infrequently used as a third-line agent following unsuccessful symptom control ...