Objectives People with serious life-limiting disease benefit from advance care planning, but require active identification. This study applied the Gold Standards Framework Proactive Identification ...

Objectives Patients with advanced cancer experience varying physical and psychological symptoms throughout the course of their illness. Depression, anxiety and stress affect overall well-being. This ...

In January 2025, President Trump immediately paused US foreign development assistance, upending healthcare in many low- and ...

Using a systematic approach covering virtue ethics, deontology and a brief overview of other ethical and moral considerations ...

A 70–80 year-old man with ischaemic cardiomyopathy, advanced heart failure and chronic kidney disease is admitted with worsening shortness of breath. Over several days, his kidney function ...

Background and aims Chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN) is a detrimental side effect of chemotherapeutic agents. If left untreated, CIPN can persist for several years following the ...

Background Enhanced Supportive Care (ESC) delivers multi-professional and proactive support for people with treatable but not curable cancer by addressing physical, psychological and social needs ...

Objectives Despite increasing demand for palliative and end-of-life care, the funding for research in this area has historically been low. Previous UK analyses in 2016 found that less than 0.3% of the ...

Background Palliative sedation therapy (PST) is used to treat refractory symptoms at the end of life. Phenobarbital is infrequently used as a third-line agent following unsuccessful symptom control ...

Objective To estimate the economic costs of informal caregiving at the end of life in Argentina, incorporating both direct and indirect costs, and to analyse their distribution through a gender equity ...

Objectives Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapy is a complex, novel treatment for patients with relapsed/refractory haematological malignancies. Despite its advancement, research on the ...

Introduction Advance Care Planning (ACP) is an ongoing process that enables individuals to express, discuss and document their personal values, preferences of care in case of future incapacitation or ...