Correspondence to Dr Hiroto Ishiki, Department of palliative medicine, National Cancer Center Japan, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0045, Japan; hishiki{at}ncc.go.jp Objectives The prognostic factors in patients ...

Background During multi-disciplinary (MDT) patients’ meetings, pain management was regularly discussed. Pain was often described as complex and focussed on the pharmaceutical approach, however, it was ...

Background 15%–20% of critical care patients die during their hospital admission. This service evaluation assesses quality of palliative care in intensive care units (ICUs) compared with national ...

Correspondence to Dr Niamh Mairéad Cleary, Regional Specialist Palliative Care Services, Dóchas Centre, Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda, Co Louth, Ireland; clearynm{at}tcd.ie Local skin site ...

Background Compassion fatigue, emotional exhaustion, and communication challenges are common in palliative care, impacting staff wellbeing and patient outcomes (Bamforth, Rae, Maben, et al. Int J Nurs ...

Objective The positive impact of early palliative care interventions in advanced cancer patients has so far been largely evaluated in randomised controlled trials. This study aimed at providing ...

Background Trismus, or limitation of mouth opening, is a common and debilitating toxicity affecting 23%–28% of head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors treated with radiotherapy. Beyond its classification ...

Background Japan has experienced rapidly ageing as the world’s oldest population. The number of elderly people aged 65 or older accounts for 29% of the population. There are complex cultural issues in ...

Introduction Death literacy is ‘the knowledge and skills that people need to make it possible to gain access to, understand, and make informed choices about end of life and death care options’. 1 With ...

Objective Fan therapy is widely acknowledged as an essential component in the management of dyspnoea with numerous studies supporting its efficacy in alleviating dyspnoea among patients with chronic ...

Correspondence to Professor Lars Johan Materstvedt, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NO-7491 Trondheim, ...

Aim To understand patients' perspectives on how a diagnosis of a life-limiting illness was first communicated to them. Study design In-depth qualitative interviews with 50 people ranging in age from ...