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Research

• Has there been any progress in improving the quality of hospitalised death? Replication of a US chart audit study (1 March, 2012)

  Purak Parikh, Frances C Brokaw, Shagun Saggar, Luann Graves, Stefan Balan, Zhongze Li, Tor D Tosteson, Marie Bakitas
• Breaking bad news sensitively: what is important to patients in their last year of life? (25 November, 2011)

  Barbara Hanratty, Elizabeth Lowson, Louise Holmes, Gunn Grande, Ann Jacoby, Sheila Payne, Jane Seymour, Margaret Whitehead
• Attitudes to morphine in chronic heart failure patients (13 December, 2011)

  Stephen G Oxberry, Lesley Jones, Andrew L Clark, Miriam J Johnson
• Which questions of two commonly used multidimensional palliative care patient reported outcome measures are most useful? Results from the European and African PRISMA survey (4 January, 2012)

  Irene J Higginson, Steffen T Simon, Hamid Benalia, Julia Downing, Barbara A Daveson, Richard Harding, Claudia Bausewein
• Where do patients known to a community palliative care service die? (1 March, 2012)

  Margred Capel, Terri Gazi, Lauren Vout, Nicola Wilson, Ilora Finlay