Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

Specialist palliative care improves patient experience, reduces bed days and saves money: An economic modelling study of home- and hospital-based care

This episode features Dr Peter May (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy & Rehabilitation, King's College London, UK School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland). What…

Reasons for patients in high income countries accessing hospital care while receiving specialist community palliative care: A systematic review and meta-ethnography

This episode features Norah Elvidge (School of Nursing, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia. Silverchain, Melbourne, VIC, Australia). What is…

Multi-perspective views about healthcare experiences for those with incurable head and neck cancer: A prospective, longitudinal, qualitative study

This episode features Dr Catriona Mayland (University of Sheffield, UK. Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK. Palliative Care Unit, University of Liverpool, UK). What is already…

Exploring the hidden before the end: A phenomenological analysis of forgiveness at the end of life among spiritual caregivers

This episode features Dr Claudia Rossy Parés (Department of Psychology, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain). What is already known on this topic? Research has associated…

Quality indicators for palliative care for older people: An umbrella review

This episode features Amy Hutchinson (Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Faculty of Health, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia). What is already known on…

Episode 3: Shirley Otis-Green

E2 - Charles von Gunten

E2 - Charles von Gunten

Loading phenobarbital in paediatric home-based terminal care: A case series

This episode features Jo-Anne J. Kelly (Palliative Care South East, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia (Palliative Care South East, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia) and Dr Karen Aisling Griffin (Palliative…

Sexual health at the end of life in patients with advanced cancer and their partners. Results of a Dutch prospective longitudinal study (eQuiPe)

This episode features Isabel S. van der Meer (Department of Research and Development, The Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation, Utrecht, The Netherlands). What was already known? The…

Balancing present-moment acceptance and future concerns: A qualitative study of illness experiences and perceptions of palliative care in progressive neurological diseases

This episode features Lily Man Lee Chan (School of Nursing, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR). What is already known about the topic? Progressive…

Loading phenobarbital in paediatric home-based terminal care: A case series

This episode features Jo-Anne J. Kelly (Palliative Care South East, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia (Palliative Care South East, Narre Warren, VIC, Australia) and Dr Karen Aisling Griffin (Palliative…

Palliative care and assisted dying: Uneasy bedfellows

This episode features Professor Nancy Preston (International Observatory on End of Life Care, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK) and Professor James Downar (Division of Palliative Care, Department…

A qualitative study exploring the perceptions and understandings of advance care planning by people with treatable but not curable cancer

This episode features Professor Sheila Payne (International Observatory on End of Life Care, Health Innovation One, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK). What is already known about the topic? …

Enhancing the wellbeing of refugees living with advanced life-limiting illness in high-income resettlement countries: A systematic review

This episode features Dr Heidi Merrington (School of Public Health, The University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia) and Professor Angela Dawson (School of Public Health, The University…

Asian family members' participation in advance care planning: An integrative review

This episode features Jing-Da Pan (Department of Oncology, The Second Affiliated Hospital, Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, China School of Nursing, Guangzhou Medical…

The experience of nurses when providing care across acts that may be perceived as death hastening: A qualitative evidence synthesis

This episode features Victoria Ali (Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK. Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK) What is already known about the topic? Nurses deliver care…

Changes in perception of prognosis in the last year of life of patients with advanced cancer and its associated factors: Longitudinal results of the eQuiPe study.

This episode features Moyke Versluis (Research and Development, Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation (IKNL), Utrecht, The Netherlands Graduate school of Social and behavioral sciences,…

Components of home-based palliative and supportive care for adults with heart failure: A scoping review

This episode features Dr Madhurangi Perera (Cancer and Palliative Care Outcomes Centre, School of Nursing and Australia Centre for Healthcare Transformation, Faculty of Health, Queensland University…

Multiple points of system failure underpin continuous subcutaneous infusion safety incidents in palliative care: A mixed methods analysis

This episode features Amy Brown (Marie Curie Research Centre, Division of Population Medicine, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK. Swansea University Medical School, Swansea…