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Table of contents

December 2016 - Volume 6 - 4

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care: 6 (4)

Editorials

Editor's choice (1 December, 2016)
Bill Noble
Doctors talking to friends and families (1 December, 2016)
Bill Noble

News and notes

News and updates from palliativedrugs.com (1 December, 2016)
Andrew Wilcock, Sarah Charlesworth

Shortcuts

Articles of interest in other scholarly journals (1 December, 2016)
Jason W Boland

Letter

Evidence-based policy in palliative care: time to learn from our mistakes (19 October, 2016)
Katherine E Sleeman, Irene J Higginson

Review

The preferences and perspectives of family caregivers towards place of care for their relatives at the end-of-life. A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the qualitative evidence (19 May, 2015)
Caroline Woodman, Jessica Baillie, Stephanie Sivell

Research

The nature and importance of quality of therapeutic relationships in the delivery of palliative care to people with intellectual disabilities (29 July, 2014)
Karen Ryan, Suzanne Guerin, John McEvoy
End-of-life experiences of mothers with advanced cancer: perspectives of widowed fathers (18 December, 2015) Free
Eliza M Park, Allison M Deal, Justin M Yopp, Teresa P Edwards, Douglas J Wilson, Laura C Hanson, Donald L Rosenstein
Methodological considerations for researching the financial costs of family caregiving within a palliative care context (26 April, 2016)
Clare Gardiner, Ruth Allen, Tess Moeke-Maxwell, Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott

Education

Increasing the number of patients receiving information about transition to end-of-life care: the effect of a half-day physician and nurse training (14 January, 2015)
L Martinsson, P-A Heedman, M Eriksson, B Tavelin, B Axelsson
‘The nice thing about doctors is that you can sometimes get a day off school’: an action research study to bring lived experiences from children, parents and hospice staff into medical students' preparation for practice (20 May, 2016)
Jessica Spalding, Sarah Yardley
Necessary but not yet sufficient: a survey of aged residential care staff perceptions of palliative care communication, education and delivery (10 June, 2016)
Rosemary Frey, Michal Boyd, Sue Foster, Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott
Use of high-fidelity simulation to improve communication skills regarding death and dying: a qualitative study (17 June, 2016)
A Hawkins, K Tredgett
Does simulation have a role in palliative medicine specialty training? (17 June, 2016)
Lucy N Walker, Lynne Russon
Medical students writing on death, dying and palliative care: a qualitative analysis of reflective essays (2 August, 2016)
Jason W Boland, Lisa Dikomitis, Amy Gadoud
Cancer and the family: assessment, communication and brief interventions—the development of an educational programme for healthcare professionals when a parent has cancer (16 August, 2016)
Lucy Grant, Amrit Sangha, Sara Lister, Theresa Wiseman

Opinion

Thank you letter to David Bowie from a palliative care doctor (19 October, 2016)
Mark Taubert

Poem

Death song (10 November, 2016)
J Birtwhistle

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