Background Intraoperative deaths, though statistically rare, may evoke varied emotions among operating room (OR) staff that remain underrecognized and inadequately addressed. Aim To synthesise the ...

Relational nature of decision-making between patients with advanced illness and their caregivers in palliative care: a systematic review and narrative synthesis ...

Background As part of a collaborative project, two hospices agreed to audit medical on-call activity for 12 weeks. Previous on-call audits had required doctors to record activity on a spreadsheet or ...

Objectives To analyse healthcare utilisation and costs in the last year of life in England, and to study variation by cause of death, region of patient residence and socioeconomic status. Methods This ...

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 ...

Objectives Assisted dying has been legally available in Oregon in the USA for 25 years, since when official reports have been published each year detailing the number of people who have used this ...

Objectives To outline the jurisprudential position in UK law regarding capital punishment, the death penalty and contrast this with proposed legislation for assisted dying and euthanasia (AD/E).

Correspondence to Dr Hamed Mohammadi, Department of Clinical nutrition School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences School of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics, ...

6 School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences,University of Salford, Salford, UK Correspondence to Dr Karen Shaw, School of Health and Population Sciences, College of Medical and ...

Background Traumatic and sudden loss can result in trauma symptoms such as nightmares, flashbacks and avoidance. These symptoms can disrupt natural grief processes (Murray. J EMDR Pract Res. 2012, 6(4 ...

Objective The aim of this study was to examine the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of advance care planning (ACP) in caregivers of patients with advanced illness in Singapore. Methods Family ...

Neither a ‘hospital’ nor a ‘home’; the in-patient hospice has a unique architectural identity remaining largely undocumented. There is a plethora of architectural research regarding more common-place ...