Background Improving palliative care (PC) is demanding due to the increase in people with PC needs over the next few years. An early identification of PC needs is fundamental in the care approach: it ...

Correspondence to Helen P A Driessen, Department of Psychiatry, Section Medical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, 3000 CA, The Netherlands; h.driessen{at}erasmusmc.nl ...

Objectives To consider the type and cost of clinical services delivered for patients with lymphoedema. Design Clinical cohort. Setting Independent hospices in the North East of England. Participants ...

Background and objectives There is limited evidence concerning the predictive value of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) on the presence of frailty in the context of cirrhosis. We aimed to ...

Background Acupuncture has been demonstrated to be a safe and effective treatment for insomnia in patients without cancer. A lack of evidence, however, supports its application in the treatment of ...

5 Centre for Aging Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore 6 Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore Background Family caregivers of patients with ...

Connect, care, create: practical framework for physical environment design for person-centred palliative care ...

Objectives To assess the outcomes of percutaneous nephrostomy in England for renal decompression, in the context of metastatic cancer. Methods Retrospective observational study of all patients ...