Objectives People with serious life-limiting disease benefit from advance care planning, but require active identification. This study applied the Gold Standards Framework Proactive Identification ...

Objective Cachexia and nutritional problems play a major role in palliative care. Artificial nutrition such as parenteral nutrition is common but its role and indications in terminal patients remain ...

Correspondence to Dr Katherine E Sleeman, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London—Cicely Saunders Institute, London, UK; katherine.sleeman{at}kcl.ac.uk ...

Correspondence to Dr Anthony Byrne, Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; Anthony.Byrne2{at}wales.nhs.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of ...

Background St Gemma’s Hospice recognises the national shortage of registered nurse (RN) recruitment with increasing dependency of patients (The Kings Fund. The NHS workforce: our position, 2021). As ...

Background Frailty is a state of vulnerability that can lower physical and mental ability and increase the risk of disability, hospitalisation, and admission to residential care (Clegg, Young, Iliffe, ...

Correspondence to Dr Kathy Eagar, Australian Health Services Research Institute, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; keagar{at}uow.edu.au Objectives To explore differences in ...