Background AI is rapidly transforming palliative care, enabling earlier identification of patients with unmet needs, ...

Objective This study aimed to explore how postgraduate physicians experience and articulate their professional development through reflective writing in a national palliative care training programme ...

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, ...

Background Australian-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) is recommended as part of the OACC (Outcomes And Complexity Collaborative) suite of measures to assess palliative patients‘ ...

Objective Physical functioning (PF), emotional functioning (EF), overall quality of life (QOL) and activities of daily living (ADL) such as walking and toilet transfer are the primary outcomes of ...

Objectives This study examines healthcare professionals’ (HCPs’) experiences of implementing digital advance care plans (DACPs) to support information-sharing and decision-making in end-of-life care ...

Objectives Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders limit the use of cardiopulmonary resuscitation but are often interpreted more broadly. During COVID-19 surges, resource constraints may have increased ...

Objectives Rehabilitation in patients with terminal cancer plays an essential role in maintaining quality of life. However, limited consensus exists regarding rehabilitation in the palliative care ...

Death notification (DN) is a critical clinical task that initiates and influences the bereavement trajectory and carries profound implications for clinician well-being. Evidence links DN quality to ...

Objectives To propose an integrative clinical–biological hypothesis whereby progressive functional deterioration in advanced cancer constitutes the final common pathway of systemic decline, driven by ...

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) ...

Background Trismus, or limitation of mouth opening, is a common and debilitating toxicity affecting 23%–28% of head and neck cancer (HNC) survivors treated with radiotherapy. Beyond its classification ...