This May, the World Health Assembly (WHA) will vote on re-establishing a mandate for the WHO to address the health consequences of nuclear weapons and war.1 Health professionals and their associations ...

Background Palliative care is important in addressing the needs of patients and their caregivers holistically, particularly where patients are diagnosed with an advanced cancer such as metastatic ...

Introduction Effective patient and family engagement is a cornerstone of quality care, increasingly this has included their involvement in the design or redesign of service delivery (Bombard et al., ...

Objectives To characterise patient-reported financial burden of living with advanced colorectal cancer in Alberta, Canada, as part of a larger prospective cohort study characterising the experiences ...

Background Palliative sedation for existential suffering (PS-ES) is a controversial clinical intervention. Empirical studies about physicians’ perceptions do not converge in a clear position and ...

Malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) is relatively common, with up to 15% of patients with malignancy suffering from an MBO during their cancer journey.1 2 The management of an MBO in palliative care for ...

Correspondence to Dr Alison Mary Kearney, Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, School of Medicine, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, ...

Background The use of virtual reality (VR) is increasing in palliative care. However, despite increasing interest in VR, there is little evidence of how this technology can be implemented into ...

Correspondence to Dr Beatrice J Edwards, Central Texas Veterans Healthcare System, Temple, TX 76501, USA; Beatrice.Edwards{at}va.gov Background Malnutrition is common in older adults with cancer and ...

2 Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh and University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK Correspondence to Dr Elizabeth Arnold, Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh, Frogston Road West, Edinburgh, EH10 7DR, UK; Liz.Arnold ...

Background Improving end-of-life care (EOLC) in Emergency Departments (ED) is a top research priority for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine 1 Our hospital palliative care team created a Senior ...

Requesting that serious diagnoses be concealed from patients, a widespread phenomenon in many cultures, presents a professional dilemma. Practical and sensitive communication strategies are needed.