Objectives Thiamine deficiency (TD) has been increasingly reported among patients undergoing active cancer treatment. However, its status in end-of-life cancer patients admitted to palliative care ...

Background Public awareness work regarding palliative and end-of-life care is increasingly promoted within national strategies for palliative care. Different approaches to undertaking this work are ...

Background Bleeding at the end of life is distressing. The use of enteral and intravenous tranexamic acid (TA) to manage bleeding is established. The delivery of TA via continuous subcutaneous ...

Correspondence to Ms Sally Hall, Supportive and Palliative Care, Royal Surrey County Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, Guildford GU2 7XX, UK; sallyhall1{at}nhs.net Objective To provide insight into the ...

Background Pain control is an essential component of high-quality palliative care. Unfortunately, many low-income and middle-income countries lack an appropriate infrastructure to provide palliative ...

The Association for Palliative Medicine of Great Britain and Ireland (APM) has recently published Guidance for Professionals to support their practice in a very challenging area of care.1 The Guidance ...

Objective Hospice at Home (HAH) services aim to enable patients to be cared for and die at home, if that is their choice and achieve a ‘good death’. A national survey, in 2017, aimed to describe and ...

Objectives The Dietetic Assessment and Intervention in Lung Cancer (DAIL) study was an observational cohort study. It triaged the need for dietetic input in patients with lung cancer, using ...

Background Although the use of Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) has been shown to improve the quality of care delivered to hospice inpatients, maintaining high utilisation rates in ...

Background Intensive Care Units have traditionally been poorly integrated with hospital specialist palliative care resources despite patients having significant morbidity and mortality. This project ...

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 ...

Importance International guidelines recommend the integration of multidisciplinary rehabilitation into palliative care services but its impact on quality of life across disease types is not well ...