We report the findings on longitudinal body composition changes and overall survival (OS) in young women (≤40 years) with metastatic breast cancer. This research expands on our previous work,1 which ...

Background Communication about the end of life is especially important in the family context, as patients and their families are considered as the care unit in palliative care. Open end-of-life ...

Background Antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) is a key national policy agenda (Department of Health and Social Care. UK 5-year action plan for antimicrobial resistance 2019 to 2024. GOV.UK [internet].

Background Current NHS End of Life Care policy favours raising the proportion of deaths that occur at home. Currently this only occurs in 21.8% of the total. Although most people would like to die at ...

Background It is essential that the physical environments in which inpatient palliative care is provided support the needs of patients and the facilitate the multidimensional delivery of palliative ...

Background Family carers are vital in the management and delivery of home-based palliative care. Decision-makers need to know what the most commonly expressed unmet needs of family carers are to ...

Correspondence to Dr Jamie Bryant, School of Medicine and Public Health, Health Behaviour Research Collaborative, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia; jamie.bryant{at}newcastle ...

Objectives Facilitated advance care planning (ACP) helps family carers’ to be aware of patient preferences. It can improve family carers’ involvement in decision making and their overall experiences ...

Background Palliative care is gaining global attention and is endorsed in high level policy commitments,but progress towards universal palliative care coverage is constrained in many countries. The ...

Background In their first year as a doctor, F1s will care for 40 patients who will die and 120 patients in the last year of life. However, research shows junior doctors are often unprepared. We ...

Objectives The study evaluates the fifth cohort of the palliative care cancer treatment centres (CTC) educational programme in India with the aim of refining the course on the basis of participant ...