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Table of contents

December 2013 - Volume 3 - 4

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care: 3 (4)

Editorials

Editor's choice (1 December, 2013)
Bill Noble
Time for a prospective study to evaluate the Amber Care Bundle (1 December, 2013)
David C Currow, Irene Higginson

News and notes

News and updates from palliativedrugs.com (1 December, 2013)
Andrew Wilcock, Sarah Charlesworth

Short cuts

Articles of interest in other scholarly journals (1 December, 2013)
Jason W Boland

Feature

Circles of care: should community development redefine the practice of palliative care? (5 March, 2013)
Julian Abel, Tony Walter, Lindsay B Carey, John Rosenberg, Kerrie Noonan, Debbie Horsfall, Rosemary Leonard, Bruce Rumbold, Deborah Morris

Review

Can palliative care reduce futile treatment? A systematic review (28 January, 2013)
Iain Harris, Scott A Murray
Assessing the uptake of the Liverpool Care Pathway for dying patients: a systematic review (25 May, 2013)
Rachel Stocker, Helen Close

Research

Information transfer to out-of-hours co-operatives: a survey of general practitioners’ views in relation to palliative patients (20 November, 2012)
Fiona Kiely, Marie Murphy, Tony O'Brien
Discontinuity of care at end of life: a qualitative exploration of OOH end of life care (7 June, 2013)
Geraldine M Leydon, Narinder K Shergill, Charles Campion-Smith, Helen Austin, Caroline Eyles, Jenny Baverstock, Julia Addington-Hall, Richard Sloan, Carol Davis, Michael V Moore
Effect of a home-based end-of-life nursing service on hospital use at the end of life and place of death: a study using administrative data and matched controls (5 June, 2013)
X A Chitnis, T Georghiou, A Steventon, M J Bardsley
Is home-based palliative care cost-effective? An economic evaluation of the Palliative Care Extended Packages at Home (PEACH) pilot (20 June, 2013)
Nikki McCaffrey, Meera Agar, Janeane Harlum, Jonathon Karnon, David Currow, Simon Eckermann
Community pharmacists: a forgotten resource for palliative care (24 July, 2013)
Paul Anthony Tait, John Gray, Paul Hakendorf, Bel Morris, David Christopher Currow, Debra S Rowett
What tools are available to identify patients with palliative care needs in primary care: a systematic literature review and survey of European practice (1 December, 2013)
Elke Arnoldina Theodora Maas, Scott A Murray, Yvonne Engels, Christine Campbell

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 (3 January, 2013)
Asia Andeleeb Ali, Rosalind Adam, David Taylor, Peter Murchie

Letters

Response to: Defining the palliative care patient: its challenges and implications for service delivery (12 July, 2013)
Chad Ahia
Patients want to be involved in end-of-life care research (23 July, 2013)
Amara Callistus Nwosu, Catriona R Mayland, Stephen Mason, Andrea Varro, John E Ellershaw
Erroneous assumptions about deep palliative sedation and euthanasia (29 August, 2013)
Lars Johan Materstvedt

Poem

Last poem (1 December, 2013)

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