Background Spirituality is considered important to people at the end-of-life (García-Navarro, Medina-Ortega, García Navarro. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;19(1):227) but the concept is not ...

1 Health Economics Unit, School of Health & Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK 2 Nursing & Health Economics Unit, School of Health & Population Sciences, University of Birmingham, UK ...

Objectives Patients with severe heart failure (HF) suffer from a high symptom burden and high mortality. European and Swedish guidelines for HF care recommend palliative care for these patients.

Quality of life and symptoms in acute myeloid leukaemia with early palliative care: real-world observational study (24 March, 2026) ...

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 ...

Introduction Ascites is the accumulation of fluid in the peritoneal cavity, often associated with a poor quality of life and poor prognosis. There is limited national guidance on management of ...

Background Prognostic disclosure is essential to informed decision making in oncology, yet many oncologists are unsure how to successfully facilitate this discussion. This scoping review determines ...

Background When the UK went into COVID-19 lockdown, we had no foresight into how our referrals would change in the forthcoming years. Average time on caseload has reduced to eleven days (Hospiscare.

Correspondence to Dr Salmani Naiire, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences and Health Services, Yazd 14115, Iran; n.salmani{at}sbmu.ac.ir Background One of the barriers to the integration of ...

Aim This study aims to systematically evaluate the effects of palliative care on the quality of life, anxiety level, depression level, cardiac function, readmission rate and mortality rate among ...

Introduction This article presents a narrative review of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a promising intervention for addressing anxiety, depression and psycho-existential distress in patients ...

Purpose Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a chronic musculoskeletal pain syndrome. The purpose of this review is to describe the epidemiological and treatment evidence and to address the future ...