Correspondence to Dr Qian Lu, Peking University School of Nursing, Beijing 100191, China; luqian{at}bjmu.edu.cn; Dr Yan Sun, Peking University Cancer Hospital & Institute, Beijing 100142, China; ...

4 Henrietta Szold-Hadassah–Hebrew University School of Nursing in the Faculty of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 7 Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel Interprofessional ...

Background Spiritual care allows palliative care patients to gain a sense of purpose, meaning and connectedness to the sacred or important while experiencing a serious illness. This study examined how ...

Objective The concept of a good death is a motivating factor for end of life care policy; this article examines what English end-of-life care (EOLC) policy defines as a good death. Methods Critical ...

Correspondence to Dr Livia Costa de Oliveira, Palliative Care Unit, National Cancer Institute, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil; lillycostaoliveira{at}gmail.com Objective To evaluate current evidence of the ...

Correspondence to Dr Anna Elizabeth Sutherland, Palliative Medicine, Sir Michael Sobell House Hospice, Oxford, UK; annasutherland{at}doctors.org.uk If you wish to reuse any or all of this article ...

Background Oral complications in palliative care patients are very common. Guidelines for oral care of these patients are available from several different sources within the UK. However, these ...

Background Living with advanced, incurable disease presents multifaceted adversities which negatively impact on various domains of well-being (McCaffrey, Bradley, Ratcliffe et al., 2016). Whilst ...

Background Phase of Illness (POI) is one of the measures in the Outcome Assessment and Complexity Collaborative (OACC) suite of measures, and describes the current stage in the patient’s illness ...

Background and aims Abraham Maslow (1943) proposed that motivation is a result of a person’s attempt to fulfil five basic needs. This five-tier model suggests that needs lower in the hierarchy need to ...