Emerging evidence suggests that methadone has a specific role in the management of treatment resistant cancer-related pain. Objectives To investigate the utilisation pattern, safety and efficacy of ...

Introduction The Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT) process encourages early conversations with patients and their loved ones to agree, document and share care and ...

Background Emergency departments (EDs) are under unprecedented pressure due to multiple factors including: a rising and ageing population; rising bed occupancy in hospitals; reduced capacity in social ...

Background ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) is a national form developed by the Resuscitation Council to support care planning. ReSPECT is a process that creates ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Josie Dixon, Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU), London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK; j.e.dixon{at}lse.ac.uk Objectives ...

6 School of Nursing, Midwifery, Social Work & Social Sciences,University of Salford, Salford, UK Correspondence to Dr Karen Shaw, School of Health and Population Sciences, College of Medical and ...

Background 15%–20% of critical care patients die during their hospital admission. This service evaluation assesses quality of palliative care in intensive care units (ICUs) compared with national ...

Correspondence to Professor Ruth Kleinpell, Rush University Medical Center and Rush University College of Nursing, 600 S. Paulina Avenue, 1062B AAC, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; ...

Objective Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is widely used in the management of acute and acute-on-chronic respiratory failure. Understanding the experiences of patients treated with NIV is critical to ...