1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, UK 2 School of Sociology, Social Policy and Social Work, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, UK Correspondence to Jayne ...

Correspondence to Dr Nicola White, Division of Psychiatry, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Departent, University College London, London W1T7NF, UK; n.g.white{at}ucl.ac.uk Objectives To determine ...

Background Impending death is not well recognised.1 Due to improvements in technology and medicine, people are living longer with more complex health conditions2 and because of this, the death of a ...

Background To ensure patients and families receive appropriate end-of-life care pathways and guidelines aim to inform clinical decision making. Ensuring appropriate outcomes through the use of these ...

Background The ways parents are supported at the end of their child’s life and after death can profoundly affect the grieving process. Within children’s hospices cold bedrooms, cooling blankets and ...

Background The placebo effect may result in a 40% clinical improvement following administration of a non-active treatment. Complementary therapies such as reflexology are commonplace in palliative ...

1 King's College London, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK 2 Palliative Care Team, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, UK ...

Objectives This systematic review aims to assess the effectiveness of bereavement support interventions (BSIs) for parents of an infant or a child who has died from a medical condition or in ...

4 Henrietta Szold-Hadassah–Hebrew University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Interprofessional ...

Correspondence to Dr Franziska A Herbst, Institute for General Practice, Hannover Medical School, Carl-Neuberg-Strasse 1, 30635 Hannover, Germany; herbst.franziska{at}mh-hannover.de Background Being ...

Objectives Malnutrition is associated with poor quality of life and survival outcomes for patients with cancer, but is challenging to prevent or treat in pancreatic cancer due to the multifactorial ...

Correspondence to Professor Moshe Y Flugelman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel; myf{at}technion.ac.il Informing families about the ...