Objectives Understanding patients' preferences for place of death and supporting patients to
achieve their wishes has become a priority. This study aims to:(1) examine preferences of …

Patients with any progressive disease may benefit from a palliative care approach in the last
phase of their life. This includes patients with advanced heart, lung and kidney disease …

Background: Internationally, policy calls for care homes to provide reliably good end-of-life
care. We undertook a 20-month project to sustain palliative care improvements achieved by …

Public policy requires public support, which in turn implies a need to enable the public not
just to understand policy but also to be engaged in its development. Where complex science …

Background Discussing preferred place of death (PPD) with patients approaching end of life
is an important part of anticipatory care planning. Preferences at a specific point in time have …

This paper assesses different methods of evaluating pain management. We used the
established methods of pain prevalence measurement and the Pain Management Index …

Over the last 10 years, one of the key themes of public policy in palliative care has been
achievement of choice in place of death. In Marie Curie Hospice Edinburgh a baseline audit …

Background: National end-of-life care policies propose that health professionals regularly
discuss matters such as preferred place of death (PPD) with patients. Aim: To explore …

Coordination of services used by palliative care patients across care contexts is essential in
providing patient centred care. In Lothian, Edinburgh, a baseline audit in 2008 of patients …

Defence research and development is superbly rich in the challenges of designing highly
complex technologically based systems. These present very difficult systems thinking …