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Table of contents

December 2018 - Volume 8 - 4

BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care: 8 (4)

Reviews

Systematic review of the effectiveness, barriers and facilitators to general practitioner engagement with specialist secondary services in integrated palliative care (14 February, 2017)
Sue-Ann Carmont, Geoffrey Mitchell, Hugh Senior, Michele Foster
Systematic review of pharmacological therapies for the management of ischaemic pain in patients with non-reconstructable critical limb ischaemia (23 August, 2017)
Áine Ní Laoire, Fliss E M Murtagh
Systematic review of general practice end-of-life symptom control (20 January, 2018)
Geoffrey K Mitchell, Hugh E Senior, Claire E Johnson, Julia Fallon-Ferguson, Briony Williams, Leanne Monterosso, Joel J Rhee, Peta McVey, Matthew P Grant, Michèle Aubin, Harriet TG Nwachukwu, Patsy M Yates

Shortcuts

Articles of interest in other scholarly journals (1 December, 2018)
Elaine Boland

Updates

News and updates from palliativedrugs.com (1 December, 2018)
Andrew Wilcock, Sarah Charlesworth

Short reports

UK end-of-life care services in dementia, initiatives and sustainability: results of a national online survey (14 October, 2016)
Sarah Amador, Claire Goodman, Louise Robinson, Elizabeth L Sampson
Does place of death vary by deprivation for patients known to specialist palliative care services? (1 December, 2016)
Michael Macfarlane, Emma Carduff

Editorial

Palliative care meets immunotherapy: what happens as cancer paradigms change? (4 September, 2018)
Christine R Sanderson, David C Currow

Case reports

Changing from continuous SC to transdermal clonidine to treat dystonia in a teenage boy with end-stage leucodystrophy (15 November, 2016)
Heather Louise McCluggage
Calvarial metastasis of renal cell carcinoma (31 January, 2017)
Tabrez Suffee, Mohamed Derder, Julien Quilichini, Edouard Dezamis, Laurent Lantieri

Education

Development, validity and reliability testing of the East Midlands Evaluation Tool (EMET) for measuring impacts on trainees’ confidence and competence following end of life care training (2 February, 2017)
B Whittaker, R Parry, L Bird, S Watson, C Faull

Features

Crash course in EPaCCS (Electronic Palliative Care Coordination Systems): 8 years of successes and failures in patient data sharing to learn from (16 September, 2016)
Mila Petrova, Julia Riley, Julian Abel, Stephen Barclay

Research

Characteristics of the case mix, organisation and delivery in cancer palliative care: a challenge for good-quality research (31 May, 2016) Free
M J Hjermstad, N Aass, F Aielli, M Bennett, C Brunelli, A Caraceni, L Cavanna, K Fassbender, M Feio, D F Haugen, G Jakobsen, B Laird, E T Løhre, M Martinez, M Nabal, A Noguera-Tejedor, K Pardon, A Pigni, L Piva, J Porta-Sales, F Rizzi, E Rondini, P Sjøgren, F Strasser, A Turriziani, S Kaasa
Exploring the concept of need in people with very severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a qualitative study (26 August, 2015)
Marilyn Kendall, Susan Buckingham, Susie Ferguson, William MacNee, Aziz Sheikh, Patrick White, Allison Worth, Kirsty Boyd, Scott A Murray, Hilary Pinnock
Advance directives and end-of-life decisions in Switzerland: role of patients, relatives and health professionals (2 September, 2015)
Sophie Pautex, Claudia Gamondi, Yves Philippin, Grégoire Gremaud, François Herrmann, Cristian Camartin, Petra Vayne-Bossert
The impact of the environment on patient experiences of hospital admissions in palliative care (25 September, 2015)
Jackie Robinson, Merryn Gott, Clare Gardiner, Christine Ingleton

Letters

Time to revisit ‘Megace’ for hot flushes in patients with breast cancer? (10 January, 2017)
Mei-Lin Ah-See
Bridge the deep chasm between patients with cancer and palliative care in Japan (23 February, 2017)
Kazuhiro Kosugi, Kenji Tsuda, Asaka Higuchi, Jinichi Mori, Tetsuya Tanimoto

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