Table of contents

Short reports

• Use of parecoxib by continuous subcutaneous infusion for cancer pain in a hospice population (1 September, 2017)

  Peter Armstrong, Pauline Wilkinson, Noleen K McCorry
• Tactile massage reduces rescue doses for pain and anxiety: an observational study (4 November, 2017)

  Karina Pedersen, Linda Björkhem-Bergman
• Risk factors for falls in older patients with cancer (31 August, 2017)

  Xiaotao Zhang, Ming Sun, Suyu Liu, Cheuk Hong Leung, Linda Pang, Uday R Popat, Richard Champlin, Holly M Holmes, Vicente Valero, Colin P Dinney, Debu Tripathy, Beatrice J Edwards
• The burden of multiple sclerosis and patients’ coping strategies (24 June, 2017)

  Lorena Lorefice, Giuseppe Fenu, Jessica Frau, Giancarlo Coghe, Maria Giovanna Marrosu, Eleonora Cocco
• Integrating palliative care into neurology services: what do the professionals say? (3 August, 2017)

  Nilay Hepgul, Wei Gao, Catherine J Evans, Diana Jackson, Liesbeth M van Vliet, Anthony Byrne, Vincent Crosby, Karen E Groves, Fiona Lindsay, Irene J Higginson
• ‘Difficult Conversations’: evaluation of multiprofessional training (8 November, 2017)

  Lisa Jane Brighton, Lucy Ellen Selman, Nicholas Gough, JJ Nadicksbernd, Katherine Bristowe, Catherine Millington-Sanders, Jonathan Koffman
• Advance care planning in Medicare: an early look at the impact of new reimbursement on billing and clinical practice (21 June, 2017)

  Gawin Tsai, Donald H Taylor
• Developing design principles for a Virtual Hospice: improving access to care (23 August, 2017)

  Andrea Taylor, Tara French, Sneha Raman