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'Being with' or 'doing for'? How the role of an end-of-life volunteer befriender can impact patient wellbeing: interviews from a multiple qualitative case study (ELSA)

47 Developing a study intervention: a realist review and consensus workshops to develop the namaste care intervention for people with advanced dementia prior to a feasibility study using a cluster randomised controlled trial in nursing care homes

scholarly article published March 2018

A four-stage process for intervention description and guide development of a practice-based intervention: refining the Namaste Care intervention implementation specification for people with advanced dementia prior to a feasibility cluster randomised

scientific article published on 21 October 2019

A group intervention to improve quality of life for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: the Namaste feasibility cluster RCT

scientific article published on 01 January 2020

Abstracts of the 7th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)

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Abstracts of the 8th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC)

Advance care planning in patients with advanced cancer: A 6-country, cluster-randomised clinical trial

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Advance care planning--a multi-centre cluster randomised clinical trial: the research protocol of the ACTION study

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Are the MORECare guidelines on reporting of attrition in palliative care research populations appropriate? A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

scientific article published on 09 January 2020

Benefits of interventions for respiratory secretion management in adult palliative care patients-a systematic review.

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Blood transfusions for anaemia in patients with advanced cancer

scientific article (publication date: 15 February 2012)

Cochrane corner: interventions for the management of malignant pleural effusions

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Current practice in the management of malignant ascites

Defining priorities in prognostication research: results of a consensus workshop.

scientific article published on 25 May 2010

Do journals contribute to the international publication of research in their field? A bibliometric analysis of palliative care journal data

scientific article published on 23 January 2020

Dopamine agonists for traumatic brain injury.

scientific article published on 20 June 2018

Drug therapy for symptoms associated with anxiety in adult palliative care patients.

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

EAPC2016: Abstracts

Enhancing integrated palliative care: what models are appropriate? A cross-case analysis

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Erratum to: Protocol for the End-of-Life Social Action Study (ELSA): a randomised wait-list controlled trial and embedded qualitative case study evaluation assessing the causal impact of social action befriending services on end of life experience.

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Ethical and research governance approval across Europe: Experiences from three European palliative care studies

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Evaluating complex interventions in end of life care: the MORECare statement on good practice generated by a synthesis of transparent expert consultations and systematic reviews

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Exploring a New Model of End-of-Life Care for Older People That Operates in the Space Between the Life World and the Healthcare System: A Qualitative Case Study

scientific article published on 01 August 2020

Facilitation of an end-of-life care programme into practice within UK nursing care homes: A mixed-methods study

scientific article published on 24 February 2018

Family caregivers' reflections on experiences of assisted suicide in Switzerland: a qualitative interview study

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Family members' experiences of assisted dying: A systematic literature review with thematic synthesis

scientific article published on 27 June 2019

Hearing the voices of children diagnosed with a life-threatening or life-limiting illness and their parents’ accounts in a palliative care setting: A qualitative study

scientific article published in 2021

How effective are volunteers at supporting people in their last year of life? A pragmatic randomised wait-list trial in palliative care (ELSA).

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How should palliative care respond to increasing legislation for assisted dying?

scientific article published on 01 June 2019

How to measure the effects and potential adverse events of palliative sedation? An integrative review

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

How views of oncologists and haematologists impacts palliative care referral: a systematic review

scientific article published on 23 November 2020

Improving living and dying for people with advanced dementia living in care homes: a realist review of Namaste Care and other multisensory interventions

scholarly article by Frances Bunn et al published 6 December 2018 in BMC Geriatrics

Integrated palliative care in Europe: a qualitative systematic literature review of empirically-tested models in cancer and chronic disease

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Integrated palliative care is about professional networking rather than standardisation of care: A qualitative study with healthcare professionals in 19 integrated palliative care initiatives in five European countries.

scientific article published in February 2018

Integrated palliative care networks from the perspectives of patients: A cross-sectional explorative study in five European countries.

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Interventions for the management of malignant pleural effusions: a network meta-analysis

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Is the content of guidelines/pathways a barrier for the integration of palliative Care in Chronic Heart Failure (CHF) and chronic pulmonary obstructive disease (COPD)? A comparison with the case of cancer in Europe

scientific article published on 28 November 2017

Legalisation of assisted suicide: a safeguard to euthanasia?

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Living with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Qualitative Interview Study with Patients and Informal Carers

scientific article published on 25 June 2020

MORECare research methods guidance development: recommendations for ethical issues in palliative and end-of-life care research

scientific article published on 21 May 2013

Medical Aid in Dying, Hastened Death, and Suicide: A Qualitative Study of Hospice Professionals' Experiences From Washington State

scientific article published on 01 November 2019

Mixed methods research in the development and evaluation of complex interventions in palliative and end-of-life care: report on the MORECare consensus exercise

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Namaste Care in nursing care homes for people with advanced dementia: protocol for a feasibility randomised controlled trial

scientific article published on 25 November 2018

New strategies for the management of malignant ascites.

scientific article published on December 1995

Palliative Care Provision for Patients with Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Systematic Integrative Literature Review

scientific article published on 01 December 2018

Palliative care integration for patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): Identifying essential components using participatory action research

scientific article published in 2021

Palliative care needs-assessment and measurement tools used in patients with heart failure: a systematic mixed-studies review with narrative synthesis

scientific article published on 03 August 2020

Patient and public involvement in research and the Cancer Experiences Collaborative: benefits and challenges.

scientific article published on 11 April 2014

Patient-reported outcome measures for use in gynaecological oncology: a systematic review

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Physical therapies for reducing and controlling lymphoedema of the limbs

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Protocol for the End-of-Life Social Action Study (ELSA): a randomised wait-list controlled trial and embedded qualitative case study evaluation assessing the causal impact of social action befriending services on end of life experience

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Quality of Life Trends in People With and Without Cancer Referred to Volunteer-Provided Palliative Care Services (ELSA): A Longitudinal Study

Recommendations for managing missing data, attrition and response shift in palliative and end-of-life care research: part of the MORECare research method guidance on statistical issues

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Recommendations on priorities for integrated palliative care: transparent expert consultation with international leaders for the InSuP-C project

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Refractory pruritus from malignant cholestasis: management

scientific article published on 13 January 2020

Responses to assisted suicide requests: an interview study with Swiss palliative care physicians.

scientific article published on 11 August 2017

Strategies to increase participant recruitment to research studies by healthcare professionals

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Supporting adults bereaved through COVID-19: a rapid review of the impact of previous pandemics on grief and bereavement

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Swiss Families' Experiences of Interactions with Providers during Assisted Suicide: A Secondary Data Analysis of an Interview Study

scientific article published on 07 November 2019

Telehealth in palliative care is being described but not evaluated: a systematic review

scientific article published on 13 December 2019

The complexity of nurses' attitudes and practice of sedation at the end of life: a systematic literature review

scientific article published on 24 September 2013

The need for early referral to palliative care especially for Black, Asian and minority ethnic groups in a COVID-19 pandemic: Findings from a service evaluation

scientific article published on 31 July 2020

The need for new perspectives on evaluation of palliative care

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

The selection and use of outcome measures in palliative and end-of-life care research: the MORECare International Consensus Workshop

scientific article published on 28 April 2013

The views of adults with Huntington's disease on assisted dying: A qualitative exploration

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The views of adults with neurodegenerative diseases on end-of-life care: a metasynthesis.

scientific article published on 6 November 2017

To what degree is palliative care integrated in guidelines and pathways for adult cancer patients in Europe: a systematic literature review

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Towards integration of palliative care in patients with chronic heart failure and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a systematic literature review of European guidelines and pathways

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Using the ‘Social Marketing Mix Framework’ to explore recruitment barriers and facilitators in palliative care randomised controlled trials? A narrative synthesis review

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WITHDRAWN: Antibiotics / anti-inflammatories for reducing acute inflammatory episodes in lymphoedema of the limbs

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Ward social workers' views of what facilitates or hinders collaboration with specialist palliative care team social workers: A grounded theory.

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What are the views of hospital-based generalist palliative care professionals on what facilitates or hinders collaboration with in-patient specialist palliative care teams? A systematically constructed narrative synthesis.

scientific article published on 4 November 2015

When is hastened death considered suicide? A systematically conducted literature review about palliative care professionals' experiences where assisted dying is legal

scientific article published on 31 August 2019