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Research

• A concept map of death-related anxieties in patients with advanced cancer (2 August, 2017)

  Sigrun Vehling, Carmine Malfitano, Joanna Shnall, Sarah Watt, Tania Panday, Aubrey Chiu, Anne Rydall, Camilla Zimmermann, Sarah Hales, Gary Rodin, Christopher Lo
• Observational study of sleep disturbances in advanced cancer (23 August, 2017)

  Andrew Neil Davies, Shuchita D Patel, Amanda Gregory, Bernadette Lee
• A multidisciplinary rehabilitation programme for cancer cachexia improves quality of life (28 August, 2017)

  Monica P Parmar, Brandy L Vanderbyl, Mary Kanbalian, Tamara Y Windholz, Anh-Thi Tran, R Thomas Jagoe
• Continuation of non-essential medications in actively dying hospitalised patients (13 September, 2017)

  Beverly Rosa Williams, F Amos Bailey, Elizabeth Kvale, Neal Steil, Patricia S Goode, Richard E Kennedy, Kathryn L Burgio
• Vitamin D supplementation to palliative cancer patients: protocol of a double-blind, randomised controlled trial ‘Palliative-D’ (13 September, 2017)

  Maria Helde-Frankling, Jenny Bergqvist, Caritha Klasson, Marie Nordström, Jonas Höijer, Peter Bergman, Linda Björkhem-Bergman
• Should heart failure be regarded as a terminal illness requiring palliative care? A study of heart failure patients’, carers’ and clinicians’ understanding of heart failure prognosis and its management (21 July, 2017)

  Rachel Stocker, Helen Close, Helen Hancock, A Pali S Hungin
• Feasibility and acceptability of a patient-reported outcome intervention in chronic heart failure (1 September, 2017)

  Pauline M Kane, Barbara A Daveson, Karen Ryan, Clare I Ellis-Smith, Niall G Mahon, Brendan McAdam, Regina McQuilllan, Cecelia Tracey, Christine Howley, Geraldine O’Gara, Caroline Raleigh, Irene J Higginson, Jonathan Koffman, Fliss E M Murtagh
• Research protocol on early palliative care in patients with acute leukaemia after one relapse (31 July, 2017)

  Cécile Barbaret, Julien Berthiller, Anne-Marie Schott Pethelaz, Mauricette Michallet, Gilles Salles, Stéphane Sanchez, Marilène Filbet
• Prospective comparative effectiveness cohort study comparing two models of advance care planning provision for Australian community aged care clients (16 September, 2017)

  Karen Margaret Detering, Rachel Zoe Carter, Marcus William Sellars, Virginia Lewis, Elizabeth Anne Sutton