Palliative care

Associations between understanding of current treatment intent, communication with healthcare providers, preferences for invasive life-sustaining interventions and decisional conflict: results from a survey of patients with advanced heart failure in Singapore

Chetna Malhotra, David Sim, Fazlur Jaufeerally, Eric A Finkelstein

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021688

September 19, 2018

Study protocol for a cohort study of patients with advanced heart failure in Singapore

Chetna Malhotra, Renette Foo, Ratna Singh, Semra Ozdemir, Irene Teo, David Sim, Fazlur Jaufeerally, Than Aung, Yeo Khung Keong, Nivedita Nadkarni, Eric Andrew Finkelstein

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022248

September 17, 2018

Comparison of attitudes towards five end-of-life care interventions (active pain control, withdrawal of futile life-sustaining treatment, passive euthanasia, active euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide): a multicentred cross-sectional survey of Korean patients with cancer, their family caregivers, physicians and the general Korean population

Young Ho Yun, Kyoung-Nam Kim, Jin-Ah Sim, Shin Hye Yoo, Miso Kim, Young Ae Kim, Beo Deul Kang, Hyun-Jeong Shim, Eun-Kee Song, Jung Hun Kang, Jung Hye Kwon, Jung Lim Lee, Eun Mi Nam, Chi Hoon Maeng, Eun Joo Kang, Young Rok Do, Yoon Seok Choi, Kyung Hae Jung

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020519

September 11, 2018

Death within 1 year among emergency medical admissions to Scottish hospitals: incident cohort study

Emily Moore, Rosalia Munoz-Arroyo, Lauren Schofield, Alice Radley, David Clark, Chris Isles

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021432

June 30, 2018

Optimum hospice at home services for end-of-life care: protocol of a mixed-methods study employing realist evaluation

Claire Butler, Charlotte Brigden, Heather Gage, Peter Williams, Laura Holdsworth, Kay Greene, Bee Wee, Stephen Barclay, Patricia Wilson

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021192

May 16, 2018

Developing a complex intervention to support timely engagement with palliative care for patients with advanced cancer in primary and secondary care in the UK: a study protocol

Julia Hackett, Hilary Bekker, Michael I Bennett, Paul Carder, Jean Gallagher, Claire Henry, Suzanne Kite, Sally Taylor, Galina Velikova, Lucy Ziegler

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-022835

May 14, 2018

What proportion of patients at the end of life contact out-of-hours primary care? A data linkage study in Oxfordshire

Rachel Brettell, Rebecca Fisher, Helen Hunt, Sophie Garland, Daniel Lasserson, Gail Hayward

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020244

April 30, 2018

Last Year of Life Study Cologne (LYOL-C): protocol for a cross-sectional mixed methods study to examine care trajectories and transitions in the last year of life until death

Julia Strupp, Gloria Hanke, Nicolas Schippel, Holger Pfaff, Ute Karbach, Christian Rietz, Raymond Voltz, on behalf of CoRe-Net, Christian Albus, Lena Ansmann, Frank Jessen, Ludwig Kuntz, Ingrid Schubert, Frank Schulz-nieswandt, Stephanie Stock, Dieter Jänsch

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021211

April 17, 2018

Access to palliative care by disease trajectory: a population-based cohort of Ontario decedents

Hsien Seow, Erin O’Leary, Richard Perez, Peter Tanuseputro

10.1136/bmjopen-2017-021147

April 5, 2018

Improving the management of pain from advanced cancer in the community: study protocol for a pragmatic multicentre randomised controlled trial

Matthew J Allsop, Alexandra Wright-Hughes, Kath Black, Suzanne Hartley, Marie Fletcher, Lucy E Ziegler, Bridgette M Bewick, David Meads, Nicholas D Hughes, S José Closs, Claire Hulme, Sally Taylor, Kate Flemming, Julia Hackett, John L O’Dwyer, Julia M Brown, Michael I Bennett

10.1136/bmjopen-2018-021965

March 22, 2018