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Research

• Factors affecting recruitment to an observational multicentre palliative care study (7 January, 2013)

  Patrick C Stone, Bridget Gwilliam, Vaughan Keeley, Chris Todd, Laura C Kelly, Stephen Barclay
• Accuracy of prognosis prediction by PPI in hospice inpatients with cancer: a multi-centre prospective study (18 April, 2013)

  Sivakumar Subramaniam, Andrew Thorns, Martin Ridout, Thiru Thirukkumaran, Thomas Richard Osborne
• A qualitative analysis of the elements used by palliative care clinicians when formulating a survival estimate (30 November, 2012)

  Rose Clarkson, Debbie Selby, Jeff Myers
• The Vulnerable Elders Survey and its prognostic relationship to survival in an older community-based palliative population (12 March, 2013)

  Michael David Chapman, Brian H C Le, Alexandra Gorelik
• An exploratory study of the knowledge, attitudes and perceptions of advance care planning in family caregivers of patients with advanced illness in Singapore (4 September, 2012)

  Raymond Ng, Susan Chan, Tzer Wee Ng, Ai Ling Chiam, Sthenos Lim
• Quality of advance care planning policy and practice in residential aged care facilities in Australia (14 November, 2012)

  William Silvester, Rachael S Fullam, Ruth A Parslow, Virginia J Lewis, Rebekah Sjanta, Lynne Jackson, Vanessa White, Jane Gilchrist
• The balancing point: understanding uptake of advance directive forms in a rural Australian community (1 November, 2012)

  Craig Sinclair, Kirsten Anne Auret, Ashlee Burgess