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 ...

Objectives To investigate the efficacy and safety of subcutaneously (SC) administered tranexamic acid. Methods A retrospective chart review of the use of SC tranexamic acid in a single palliative 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, ...

Introduction The population of minority ethnic groups in the UK is rapidly growing. A palliative care priority is therefore to ensure the availability of and access to care that meets the diverse ...

Introduction Duloxetine has previously been reported to be promising in the setting of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). The aim of this study was to conduct a comprehensive ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Dr Kirsty Boyd, Palliative Care Service, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, 51 Little France Crescent, Edinburgh EH16 4SA, UK; kirsty.boyd{at}ed.ac.uk Objective To refine and evaluate a ...

4 Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Professor Scott A Murray, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health ...

Objectives Multidisciplinary team meetings are a regular feature in the provision of palliative care, involving a range of professionals. Yet, their purpose and best format are not necessarily well ...

1 School of Nursing and Midwifery, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK 2 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Correspondence to Dr Clare Gardiner, School of ...

Background People with severe mental illness (SMI) have a life expectancy of up to twenty years less than the general population. They also experience poor physical health and higher rates of many ...

2 School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR), The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to Dr Christopher J McDermott, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), ...