Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care
Episodes
AJMQ 2019 Special Issue Podcast
06 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Robotic technology for palliative and supportive care: Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Amara Nwosu (Palliative Care Institute Liverpool and Marie Curie Hospice Liverpool, Liverpool, UK). Medical robots have mai...
Do patients, families, and healthcare teams benefit from the integration of palliative care in burn intensive care units? Results from a systematic review with narrative synthesis
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features André Filipe Ribeiro (Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal). The number of patients with morbidities and other complex inj...
Communication between healthcare professionals and relatives of patients approaching the end-of-life: A systematic review of qualitative evidence
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Rebecca Anderson (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, University College London, London, UK). Poor communicatio...
Multidisciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: a systematic review and narrative synthesis
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Hull York Medical School, UK). People with heart failure have poor access to palliative care. Peopl...
Aromatherapy, massage and reflexology: A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the perspectives from people with palliative care needs
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Bridget Candy and Dr Megan Armstrong (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, Division of Psychiatry, University ...
The trajectory of functional decline over the last 4 months of life in a palliative care population: A prospective, consecutive cohort study
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Deidre Morgan (Palliative and Supportive Services, College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Au...
It all depends: a qualitative study of preferences for place of care and place of death in terminally ill patients and their family caregivers
07 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Katrin Gerber ( National Ageing Research Institute & Queensland University of Technology). Research suggests that people ge...
Implementing advance care planning with community dwelling frail elders requires a system wide approach
03 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Sarah Combes (Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's College London, UK). Older people ...
Palliative care specialists in hospice and hospital/community teams predominantly use low doses of sedative medication at the end of life for patient comfort rather than sedation: Findings from focus groups and patient records for I-CAN-CARE
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Bella Vivat (Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Department, UCL, London, UK) and Professor Paddy Stone (Marie Curie Pallia...
Assessing quality of care for the dying from the bereaved relatives' perspective: Using pre-testing survey methods across seven countries to develop an international outcome measure
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Catriona Mayland (University of Sheffield, UK). The Quality of Death Index showed variability in the international provis...
What does it take to deliver brilliant home-based palliative care? Using Positive Organisational Scholarship and Video Reflexive Ethnography to explore the complexities of palliative care at home
17 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Ann Dadich (Western Sydney University, Austrailia) Specialist home-based palliative care can improve symptom management a...
Finding a 'new normal' following acute illness: A qualitative study of influences on frail older people's care preferences
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Simon Etkind (Cicely Saunders Institute, King's College London, London, UK). To be person-centred, care should take int...
Quality improvement priorities for safer out-of-hours palliative care: Lessons from a mixed-methods analysis of a national incident-reporting database
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Huw Williams ( Cardiff University, UK) Around 2% –3 % of consultations in primary care are prone to patient safety incid...
Oral anticoagulation is preferable to injected, but only if it is safe and effective: An interview study of patient and carer experience of oral and injected anticoagulant therapy for cancer-associated thrombosis in the select-d trial
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Sophie Rees ( University of Warwick, Coventry, UK ) and Dr Ann Hutchinson ( University of Hull, Hull, UK ) Cancer patients a...
Deep learning algorithms to identify documentation of serious illness conversations during intensive care unit admissions
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Alex Chan (Department of Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA). Routine asse...
Do we prepare patients for their digital legacy? A survey of palliative care professionals
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Hazel Coop and Dr Clare Marlow (WM CARES (West Midlands Collaborative Actioning Research in End of life and Supportive care)...
A qualitative exploration of patient and healthcare professionals' views and experiences of palliative rehabilitation during advanced lung cancer treatment
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Cathy Payne (Institute of Nursing and Health Research, Ulster University, Newtownabbey, UK). This qualitative study aimed t...
National comparative audit of red blood cell transfusion practice in hospices: Recommendations for palliative care practice
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Karen Neoh (St Gemma's Academic Unit of Palliative Care, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK). This national audit aimed to de...
Pilot randomised controlled trial of focused narrative intervention for moderate to severe depression in palliative care patients: DISCERN trial.
12 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Mari Lloyd Williams (Academic Palliative and Supportive Care Studies Group, Institute of Psychology, Health and Socie...
The 'Cancer Home-Life Intervention': A randomised controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of an occupational therapy–based intervention in people with advanced cancer
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Marc Sampedro Pilegaard (The Research Initiative of Activity Studies and Occupational Therapy, Research Unit of General Practi...
Duration and determinants of hospice-based specialist palliative care. A national retrospective cohort study
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Matthew Allsop (St Gemma's Academic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK...
Clinician-reported changes in octreotide prescribing for malignant bowel obstruction as a result of an adequately powered phase III study: A transnational, online survey
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor David Currow (University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia. Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Unive...
A qualitative study with semi-structured interviews of palliative care patients views corneal donation and timing of its discussion
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr Karen Neoh (St Gemma's Academic Unit of Palliative Care). This is the first study to interview hospice inpatients to exp...
What is the role of community at the end of life for people dying in advanced age? A qualitative study with bereaved family carers.
25 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Merryn Gott (School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). The aim of this study was to explore the ...
The feasibility of a randomised controlled trial to compare the cost effectiveness of palliative cardiology or usual care in people with advanced heart failure to exploratory prospective cohorts.
10 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Director, Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School). The aim of this study w...
"People don't understand what goes on in here": A consensual qualitative research analysis of inmate-caregiver perspectives on prison-based end-of-life care
16 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Rachel Depner (Palliative Care Institute, The Center for Hospice & Palliative Care, New York, USA). She reports on her study w...
Who cares for the carers at hospital discharge at the end of life? A qualitative study of current practice in discharge planning and the potential value of using The Carer Support Needs Assessment Tool (CSNAT) Approach
15 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Gunn Grande (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK). The aim of this qualitative study was to explore whether an...
Understanding meaning in life interventions in patients with advanced disease: A systematic review and realist synthesis
22 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Dr. Mariona Guerrero (Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain). She reports on her systematic review which ai...
What is the impact of population ageing on the future provision of end-of-life care? Population-based projections of place of death
15 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Anna Bone (Cicely Saunders Institute of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, King's College London). This study aimed to...
The under reporting of recruitment strategies in research with children with life-threatening illnesses: A systematic review
11 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Briony Hudson (Louis Dundas Centre for Children's Palliative Care, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK and Marie Curie ...
A metasynthesis study of family caregivers' transition experiences caring for community-dwelling persons with advanced cancer at the end of life
03 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Wendy Duggleby (University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada) who describes a study which aimed to (a) explore the transition e...
Dying in the hospital setting: A meta-synthesis identifying the elements of end-of-life care that patients and their families describe as being important
04 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Claudia Virdun (Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Ultimo, NSW, Australia) who describes a study whic...
Enteral feeding in Motor Neurone Disease/Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis: Patients' perspectives and impact on quality of life
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Suresh Kumar Chhetri (Preston MND Care and Research Centre, Department of Neurology, Royal Preston Hospital, Lancashire Teaching...
Electronic Palliative Care Co-Ordination Systems (EPaCCS): devising and testing a methodology for evaluating documentation
18 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Matthew Allsop (Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK) who describes a study that outli...
Distance education methods for palliative caregivers
18 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features Professor Liz Forbat (Australian Catholic University, Canberra, ACT, Australia) and Rachel Bilton-Simek (Calvary Public Hospita...
What is the evidence for conducting palliative care family meetings? A systematic review
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Philippa Cahill et al (School of Medicine, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia) who de...
Caregiver characteristics and bereavement needs: findings from a population study
03 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Professor David Currow et al (Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia) who describes a study which aimed to ...
Parenting While Living with Advanced Cancer: A Qualitative Study
13 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Dr Eliza M Park et al (Department of Psychiatry, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC,...
Doctors' reports about palliative systemic treatment: A medical record study
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Dr Hilde Buiting et al (Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam and Netherlands Comprehensive Cancer Organisation ...
Palliative care delivery across health sectors: A population-level observational study
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Dr Peter Tanuseputro et al (Bruyère Research Institute and Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, ON, Cana...
Implementing a patient-centred outcome measure in daily routine in a specialist palliative care inpatient hospital unit: An observational study.
08 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features the work of Dr Alze Tavares et al (Hospital Paulistano, Sao Paulo, Brazil) who conducted a study which aimed to implement a pat...
Standardized patient simulation versus didactic teaching alone for improving residents' communication skills when discussing goals of care and resuscitation: A randomized controlled trial.
27 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr James Downar (University of Toronto, Canada) presents a study which aimed to determine whether standardized patient simulation offe...
Measuring the quality of life of people at the end of life: The McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire–Revised
21 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Professor Robin Cohen (Departments of Oncology and Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada) presents a study which aimed to...
How does uncertainty shape patient experience in advanced illness? A secondary analysis of qualitative data
28 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Simon Noah Etkind (King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London,...
Development of a measure (ICECAP-Close Person Measure) through qualitative methods to capture the benefits of end-of-life care to those close to the dying for use in economic evaluation
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Alastair Canaway (Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick) presents the findings of study whi...
Differences in out-of-pocket costs of healthcare in the last year of life of older people in 13 European countries.
27 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Yolanda Penders (End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium) presents a...
Experiences of patients and caregivers with early palliative care: A qualitative study.
26 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Camilla Zimmermann (University of Toronto) presents the findings of qualitative study which aimed to determine, from a participant p...
A call for increased paediatric palliative care research
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner (Louis Dundas Centre for Children's Palliative Care) discusses the challenges faced by researchers a...
The palliative care related problems of tuberculosis
24 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dr Richard Harding (Kings College London) presents a study of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Specifically the study...
Patient and caregiver perspectives on managing pain in advanced cancer
21 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Patient and caregiver perspectives on managing pain in advanced cancer In this episode Mary Godfrey (University of Leeds) discusses the knowledge gap ...