SAGE Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

What is the role of community at the end of life for people dying in advanced age? A qualitative study with bereaved family carers.

Apr 25, 2018

This episode features Merryn Gott (School of Nursing, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand). The aim of this study was to explore the role of community at end of life for people dying in advanced age from the perspective of their bereaved family caregivers. The study used a constructionist framework...

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.

Apr 10, 2018

This episode features Professor Miriam Johnson (Director, Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, Hull York Medical School). The aim of this study was to: establish cardiology led palliative care versus usual care was feasible, to assess quality of data capture, to facilitate future sample size calculation and to...