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Book review

    Book review: Review of ‘Supportive Care and Respiratory Disease’ by Sam Ahmedzai, David Baldwin and David Currow
    • Sara Booth
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 31 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000421
    Book review: Palliative Care Expert Group. Therapeutic guidelines: palliative care. Version 3. Melbourne:Therapeutic Guidelines Limited; 2010.
    • Clare Farrington
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 15 April 2011 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000032

Case report

    Case report: Prophylactic cranial irradiation: 5 years on
    • Stephen A Ryan,
    • Aoife C Lowney,
    • Marie Murphy,
    • Paul J Kelly,
    • Derek G Power
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 18 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000356
    Case report: Left ventricular assist device withdrawal: an ethical discussion
    • Sarah McLean,
    • Tara Ni Dhonnchu,
    • Niall Mahon,
    • Regina McQuillan,
    • Bert Gordijn,
    • Karen Ryan
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 7 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000347

Education

    Education: An analysis of knowledge and attitudes of hospice staff towards organ and tissue donation
    • J Wale,
    • A Arthur,
    • C Faull
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 18 April 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000416
    Education: The impact of a medical undergraduate student-selected module in palliative care
    • Catherine Sweeney,
    • Gerardine Lynch,
    • Ali Khashan,
    • Bridget Maher,
    • Marie Murphy,
    • Tony O'Brien
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 8 March 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000283

Feature

    Feature: Identifying patients with chronic conditions in need of palliative care in the general population: development of the NECPAL tool and preliminary prevalence rates in Catalonia
    • Xavier Gómez-Batiste,
    • Marisa Martínez-Muñoz,
    • Carles Blay,
    • Jordi Amblàs,
    • Laura Vila,
    • Xavier Costa,
    • Alicia Villanueva,
    • Joan Espaulella,
    • Jose Espinosa,
    • Montserrat Figuerola,
    • Carles Constante
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 14 December 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000211

Features

    Features: Circles of care: should community development redefine the practice of palliative care?
    • Julian Abel,
    • Tony Walter,
    • Lindsay B Carey,
    • John Rosenberg,
    • Kerrie Noonan,
    • Debbie Horsfall,
    • Rosemary Leonard,
    • Bruce Rumbold,
    • Deborah Morris
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 5 March 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000359
    Features: Developing a service for patients with very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) within resources
    • Jason Boland,
    • Janet Owen,
    • Rachel Ainscough,
    • Hazim Mahdi
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 28 February 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000393

Research

    Research: Accuracy of prognosis prediction by PPI in hospice inpatients with cancer: a multi-centre prospective study
    • Sivakumar Subramaniam,
    • Andrew Thorns,
    • Martin Ridout,
    • Thiru Thirukkumaran,
    • Thomas Richard Osborne
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 18 April 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000239
    Research: Barriers to research in palliative care in France
    • Wadih Rhondali,
    • Julien Berthiller,
    • David Hui,
    • Sriram Yennu,
    • Veronique Lafumas,
    • Mathilde Ledoux,
    • Florian Strasser,
    • Marilène Filbet
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 18 April 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000360
    Research: Predicting palliative care needs and mortality in end stage renal disease: use of an at-risk register
    • Kennedy Feyi,
    • Sarah Klinger,
    • Georgina Pharro,
    • Liz Mcnally,
    • Ajith James,
    • Kate Gretton,
    • Michael K Almond
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 12 March 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000165
    Research: The Vulnerable Elders Survey and its prognostic relationship to survival in an older community-based palliative population
    • Michael David Chapman,
    • Brian H C Le,
    • Alexandra Gorelik
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 12 March 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000386
    Research: Triggers in advanced neurological conditions: prediction and management of the terminal phase
    • Jamilla Hussain,
    • Debi Adams,
    • Victoria Allgar,
    • Colin Campbell
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 19 February 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000389
    Research: Living with advanced cancer and an uncertain disease trajectory: an emerging patient population in palliative care?
    • Elizabeth A Lobb,
    • Judith Lacey,
    • John Kearsley,
    • Winston Liauw,
    • Lesley White,
    • Annmarie Hosie
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 28 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000381
    Research: Factors affecting recruitment to an observational multicentre palliative care study
    • Patrick C Stone,
    • Bridget Gwilliam,
    • Vaughan Keeley,
    • Chris Todd,
    • Laura C Kelly,
    • Stephen Barclay
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 7 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000396
    Open Access
    Research: Patient and family involvement in decision making for management of cancer patients at a centre in Singapore
    • Jia An Chong,
    • Yan Ling Quah,
    • Grace Meijuan Yang,
    • Sumytra Menon,
    • Lalit Kumar Radha Krishna
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 3 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000323
    Research: Medical specialists’ motivations for referral to specialist palliative care: a qualitative study
    • Emma Kirby,
    • Alex Broom,
    • Phillip Good,
    • Julia Wootton,
    • Jon Adams
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 14 December 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000376
    Research: A qualitative analysis of the elements used by palliative care clinicians when formulating a survival estimate
    • Rose Clarkson,
    • Debbie Selby,
    • Jeff Myers
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 30 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000320
    Open Access
    Research: The lived experience of physicians dealing with patient death
    • Paul Richard Whitehead
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 30 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000326
    Research: Information transfer to out-of-hours co-operatives: a survey of general practitioners’ views in relation to palliative patients
    • Fiona Kiely,
    • Marie Murphy,
    • Tony O'Brien
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 20 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000281
    Research: Quality of advance care planning policy and practice in residential aged care facilities in Australia
    • William Silvester,
    • Rachael S Fullam,
    • Ruth A Parslow,
    • Virginia J Lewis,
    • Rebekah Sjanta,
    • Lynne Jackson,
    • Vanessa White,
    • Jane Gilchrist
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 14 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000262
    Open Access
    Research: The balancing point: understanding uptake of advance directive forms in a rural Australian community
    • Craig Sinclair,
    • Kirsten Anne Auret,
    • Ashlee Burgess
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 1 November 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000256
    Research: An exploratory study of the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of advance care planning in family caregivers of patients with advanced illness in Singapore
    • Raymond Ng,
    • Susan Chan,
    • Tzer Wee Ng,
    • Ai Ling Chiam,
    • Sthenos Lim
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 4 September 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000243
    Research: Paediatric palliative care: a survey of paediatricians and family practitioners
    • Lynn Straatman,
    • Tanice Miller
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 31 May 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2011-000058

Review

    Review: Non-herbal nutritional supplements for symptom relief in adjuvant breast cancer: creating a doctor–patient dialogue
    • Noah Samuels,
    • Elad Schiff,
    • Eran Ben-Arye
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 19 February 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2013-000463
    Review: Can palliative care reduce futile treatment? A systematic review
    • Iain Harris,
    • Scott A Murray
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 28 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000343
    Review: Relational mechanisms and psychological outcomes in couples affected by breast cancer: a systematic narrative analysis of the literature
    • Gill Hubbard,
    • Sandra Menzies,
    • Pamela Flynn,
    • Sally Adams,
    • Farhana Haseen,
    • Ian Thomas,
    • Karen Scanlon,
    • Liz Reed,
    • Liz Forbat
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 24 October 2012 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000274

Short Report

    Short Report: Use of a structured palliative care summary in patients with established cancer is associated with reduced hospital admissions by out-of-hours general practitioners in Grampian
    • Asia Andeleeb Ali,
    • Rosalind Adam,
    • David Taylor,
    • Peter Murchie
    BMJ Support Palliat Care Published Online First: 3 January 2013 doi:10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000371

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