Correspondence to Professor Chia-Chin Lin, School of Nursing, University of Hong Kong, HKG000 Hong Kong, Hong Kong, SAR; cclin{at}hku.hk Background Continuing futile life-sustaining treatment prolongs ...

Correspondence to Dr Jason W Boland, Hull York Medical School, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK; Jason.Boland{at}hyms.ac.uk Objectives There is increased interest in cannabinoids for cancer pain ...

Objectives End-of-life and bereavement care support services differ in critical care and inpatient hospice settings. There are limited population-level data comparing deaths in these two locations. We ...

Introduction Individuals with chronic physical illness are at increased risk of negative psychological sequelae. Immersive virtual reality (VR) is an emerging treatment that might reduce these ...

2 Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, UK Correspondence to Jill F Pattenden, Health Sciences, University of York, Seebohm Rowntree Building, Area 4, Alcuin College, Heslington, York ...

Most people die when they are old, but predicting exactly when this will occur is unavoidably uncertain. The health of older people is challenged by multimorbidity, disability and frailty. Frailty is ...

Introduction Nausea and vomiting are common symptoms for patients with advanced cancer. While there is evidence for acupuncture point stimulation for treatment of these symptoms for patients having ...

Objectives Assessing whether interventions are implemented as intended (fidelity) is critical to establishing efficacy in clinical research yet rarely applied in advance care planning (ACP) ...

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 Laura Lunardi, Renal Department, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia; laura.lunardi{at}sa.gov.au Background Identification of people with deteriorating ...