Objectives Cancer cachexia (CC) reduces treatment efficacy, quality of life and survival. However, few contemporary data quantify its prevalence or impact on death. This study assessed cachexia ...

Objective Various providers have piloted palliative virtual wards in the past 4 years. This survey provides the first ...

Objectives This study aimed to investigate the trajectory of symptom burden and quality of life in palliative cancer patients ...

Psoas muscle indices, visceral fat distribution, inflammatory markers and 90-day mortality in palliative medicine: retrospective cohort study ...

Objective To investigate bereaved parents’ perception of end-of-life communication with healthcare professionals after losing a child due to life-limiting diagnoses. Methods A national register ...

Introduction The majority of observational studies approved that regular consumption of vitamin E would decrease the risk of cardiovascular events. However, a great number of randomised trials do not ...

Importance International guidelines recommend the integration of multidisciplinary rehabilitation into palliative care services but its impact on quality of life across disease types is not well ...

Objectives The Asian Working Group for Cachexia (AWGC) updated the diagnostic criteria for cachexia, emphasising its multidimensional influence. We hypothesised that patients meeting the AWGC criteria ...

Objectives Fatigue is common among children living with cancer, particularly in advance stages. Little is known about the effectiveness of non-pharmacological approaches to manage this complex and ...

Background Clinicians hesitate to engage with advance care planning (ACP) in heart failure. We aimed to identify the disease-specific barriers and facilitators for clinicians to engage with ACP.

Correspondence to Ms Jodhi Rutherford, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia; jodhi.rutherford{at}qut.edu.au Background ...

Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease for which there is no cure. However, it is difficult to diagnose and is unique in that it is both a genetic and ...