Dignity therapy in cancer palliative care: meaning and resignification of life—a qualitative study (1 July, 2025) ...

Background Families of young children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions encounter many stark challenges, including limited or delayed communication resulting from the child’s medical ...

Correspondence to Barbara Kimbell, Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Centre for Population Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Medical School, Teviot Place, Doorway 3, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, ...

Background Agitation is a common symptom at the end of life; without prompt assessment and management it can cause significant distress to patients and relatives. Clinical practice in the ...

Objective More than 90% of people spend time in hospital in the last year of life and, in many developed countries, hospitals are the setting in which most people will die. Previous research indicates ...

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 ...

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 ...

Background Terminal agitation is a common symptom at the end of life. An audit of patients with terminal agitation in our inpatient unit (IPU) showed no patients with terminal agitation were assessed ...

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 ...