Introduction Racism is an underlying cause of inequity in health. Little is known about whether and how racism is experienced within specialist palliative care services. Aims To explore whether and ...

1 Translational Cancer Research Unit, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 2 Surgical Outcomes ...

1 Palliative and End of Life Care Group in Cambridge (PELiCAM), Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health and Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 0SR, UK 2 Nottingham Centre for ...

Objectives To evaluate the incidence, pattern and risk factors of early cardiotoxicity and to assess the impact of undernutrition in children with Wilms tumour (WT) and hepatoblastoma receiving ...

Objectives Psychological distress is a common yet under-recognised complication in cancer patients, significantly affecting quality of life, treatment adherence and clinical outcomes. Patients with ...

Background The Association for Palliative Medicine (APM) ran a national Specialist Palliative Care (SPC) service evaluation from 2013, using the Family Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care (FAMCARE-2) ...

The emergency department (ED) is a dynamic, unpredictable environment primarily designed for rapid assessment and treatment. Yet, a growing number of patients present either following catastrophic ...

Background One in four UK adults are deaf, rising to 80% of the over 70s (Akeroyd, Munro. Int J Audiol. 2024;63(9):659-660) – therefore deaf people represent a high proportion of those interacting ...

3 Palliative Care Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia 4 Calvary Centre for Palliative Care Research, Australian Catholic University and Calvary Health Care, ...

Background Reviews and inquiries into end of life care for people with learning disabilities consistently recommend that services involve them in end of life care planning. However, there is limited ...

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Objectives Hospitals remain the most common place of death in the UK, with 30% of inpatients in their last year of life. National policies emphasise early identification and proactive planning to ...