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Research

• Palliative care development in the Asia-Pacific region: an international survey from the Asia Pacific Hospice Palliative Care Network (APHN) (10 July, 2014)

  Takashi Yamaguchi, Meiko Kuriya, Tatsuya Morita, Meera Agar, Youn Seon Choi, Cynthia Goh, K B Lingegowda, Richard Lim, Rico K Y Liu, Roderick MacLeod, Rhodora Ocampo, Shao-Yi Cheng, Temsak Phungrassami, Yen-Phi Nguyen, Satoru Tsuneto
• A qualitative study exploring use of the surprise question in the care of older people: perceptions of general practitioners and challenges for practice (28 August, 2014)

  Margaret Elliott, Caroline Nicholson
• Haematologists’ perceptions of palliative care and specialist palliative care referral: a qualitative study (24 September, 2014)

  Bethany Wright, Karen Forbes
• Increasing inpatient hospice use versus patient preferences in the USA: are patients able to die in the setting of their choice? (13 November, 2014)

  Susan Lysaght Hurley, Caitlin Colling, Laura Bender, Pamela S Harris, Joan K Harrold, Joan M Teno, Kevin A Ache, David Casarett
• Place of care: from referral to specialist palliative care until death (8 December, 2014)

  Mary Jane O'Leary, Alison C O'Brien, Marie Murphy, Claire M Crowley, Helen M Leahy, Jill M McCarthy, Joan C Collins, Tony O'Brien
• The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals: a mixed methods study (5 March, 2015)

  Elena Semino, Zsófia Demjén, Jane Demmen, Veronika Koller, Sheila Payne, Andrew Hardie, Paul Rayson
• Assessing the internal consistency and temporal stability of advance directives generated by an interactive, online computer program (5 March, 2015)

  Jane R Schubart, Fabian Camacho, Michael J Green, Kimberly A Rush, Benjamin H Levi