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 ...

Introduction To maintain continuity of care during the Covid-19 pandemic, virtual consultations (VC) became the mainstay of patient practitioner interactions. Prior to this, little was understood ...

Background Palliative care is gaining global attention and is endorsed in high level policy commitments,but progress towards universal palliative care coverage is constrained in many countries. The ...

2 Ulster University, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, Belfast, UK 3 School of Nursing and Midwifery, Queen’s University Belfast, Medical Biology Centre, Belfast, UK 4 Ulster University, Institute ...

Objectives The study aimed to determine and validate cut-off points for selected inflammatory markers to predict 30-day, 60-day and 90-day survival in patients with incurable cancer exclusively ...

Objectives Knowledge gaps in defining, diagnosing, educating health practitioners and treatment options hinder breakthrough cancer pain (BtCP) management. A systematic review revealed a lack of ...

Purple urine bag syndrome is an uncommon condition that occurs in patients with long-standing indwelling urinary catheters, due to urinary tract infection (UTI) by bacteria producing sulfatase or ...

We report the findings on longitudinal body composition changes and overall survival (OS) in young women (≤40 years) with metastatic breast cancer. This research expands on our previous work,1 which ...

Objectives To conduct a scoping review to explore the evidence of the process of do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation (DNACPR) decision-making. Methods We conducted a systematic search and ...

Correspondence to Dr Min Yan, Department of Breast Disease, Henan Breast Cancer Center, Affiliated Cancer Hospital of Zhengzhou University & Henan Cancer Hospital, Zhengzhou, China; ...

1 School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Grafton, Auckland, New Zealand 2 School of Nursing & Midwifery, Northern General Hospital, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK Correspondence to ...

Objective Terminal haemorrhage is a rare and distressing emergency in palliative oncology. We present an algorithm for the management of terminal haemorrhage in patients likely to receive end-of-life ...