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• Confidence in palliative care issues by medical students and internal medicine residents (16 December, 2017)

  Ana Carolina Montouro Storarri, Giovana Dalmedico de Castro, Lilian Castiglioni, Patricia Maluf Cury
• Thyroid skeletal metastasis: pain management with verteblation (19 April, 2017)

  Gianluigi Orgera, Miltiadis Krokidis, Alberto Rebonato, Marcello Andrea Tipaldi, Luca Mascagni, Michele Rossi
• A collaborative approach to facilitate professionals to support the breathless patient (22 July, 2017)

  Vanessa Shaw, Alison Davies, Bie Nio Ong
• Supporting family carers in home-based end-of-life care: using participatory action research to develop a training programme for support workers and volunteers (2 August, 2017)

  Glenys Caswell, Beth Hardy, Gail Ewing, Sheila Kennedy, Jane Seymour
• Developing the methods and questionnaire (VOICES-SF) for a national retrospective mortality follow-back survey of palliative and end-of-life care in England (3 November, 2017)

  Katherine J Hunt, Alison Richardson, Anne-Sophie E Darlington, Julia M Addington-Hall
• End-of-life prescribing of aspirin in patients with breast or colorectal cancer (24 August, 2017)

  Laura Murphy, Chris Brown, Amelia Smith, Faith Cranfield, Linda Sharp, Kala Visvanathan, Kathleen Bennett, Thomas Ian Barron
• Responses to assisted suicide requests: an interview study with Swiss palliative care physicians (11 August, 2017)

  Claudia Gamondi, Gian Domenico Borasio, Pam Oliver, Nancy Preston, Sheila Payne
• Experiences and reflections of patients with motor neuron disease on breaking the news in a two-tiered appointment: a qualitative study (2 February, 2016)

  Antje A Seeber, A Jeannette Pols, Albert Hijdra, Hepke F Grupstra, Dick L Willems, Marianne de Visser
• ‘It’s a hard conversation to have’. Healthcare professionals’ views concerning advance care discussions with young people affected by life-limiting neuromuscular diseases: an interview study (19 June, 2017)

  Andy Hiscock, Stephen Barclay
• Impacts of person-centred integrated chronic heart failure and palliative home care on pharmacological heart failure treatment: a substudy of a randomised trial (20 January, 2016)

  Rickard Markgren, Margareta Brännström, Claes Lundgren, Kurt Boman
• Experience of acute noninvasive ventilation—insights from ‘Behind the Mask’: a qualitative study (26 August, 2016)

  Tracy A Smith, Meera Agar, Christine R Jenkins, Jane M Ingham, Patricia M Davidson
• Normalising and planning for death in residential care: findings from a qualitative focus group study of a specialist palliative care intervention (3 August, 2016)

  Nikki Johnston, Clare Lovell, Wai-Man Liu, Michael Chapman, Liz Forbat
• Exploring the association of hospice care on patient experience and outcomes of care (16 August, 2016)

  Ruth Kleinpell, Eduard E Vasilevskis, Louis Fogg, E Wesley Ely
• Considerations and recommendations for conducting qualitative research interviews with palliative and end-of-life care patients in the home setting: a consensus paper (8 December, 2015)

  Stephanie Sivell, Hayley Prout, Noreen Hopewell-Kelly, Jessica Baillie, Anthony Byrne, Michelle Edwards, Emily Harrop, Simon Noble, Catherine Sampson, Annmarie Nelson
• Evaluating the experiences and support needs of people living with chronic cancer: development and initial validation of the Chronic Cancer Experiences Questionnaire (CCEQ) (10 August, 2016)

  Clare Harley, Simon Pini, Lucille Kenyon, Amrit Daffu-O'Reilly, Galina Velikova
• Palliative care referral and associated outcomes among patients with cancer in the last 2 weeks of life (23 September, 2015)

  Mathilde Ledoux, Wadih Rhondali, Véronique Lafumas, Julien Berthiller, Marion Teissere, Céline Piegay, Sandrine Couray-Targe, Anne-Marie Schott, Eduardo Bruera, Marilène Filbet
• Gaining an accurate reflection of the reality of palliative care through the use of free-text feedback in questionnaires: the AFTER study (17 February, 2016)

  Anna Victoria Bowyer, Ilora Finlay, Jessica Baillie, Anthony Byrne, Jacqui McCarthy, Catherine Sampson, Veronica Snow, Annmarie Nelson
• Training general practitioners contributes to the identification of palliative patients and to multidimensional care provision: secondary outcomes of an RCT (18 April, 2016)

  Bregje Thoonsen, Stefanie H M Gerritzen, Kris C P Vissers, Stans Verhagen, Chris van Weel, Marieke Groot, Yvonne Engels
• Psychological processes of suffering of palliative care patients in Malaysia: a thematic analysis (20 April, 2016)

  Seng Beng Tan, Ee Chin Loh, Chee Loong Lam, Chong Guan Ng, Ee Jane Lim, Christopher Chiong Meng Boey
• Patient-family agreement on values and preferences for life-sustaining treatment: results of a multicentre observational study (22 July, 2017)

  Amane Abdul-Razzak, Daren K Heyland, Jessica Simon, Sunita Ghosh, Andrew G Day, John J You
• Effect of communication skills training on outcomes in critically ill patients with life-limiting illness referred for intensive care management: a before-and-after study (28 June, 2017)

  Neil R Orford, Sharyn Milnes, Nicholas Simpson, Gerry Keely, Tania Elderkin, Allison Bone, Peter Martin, Rinaldo Bellomo, Michael Bailey, Charlie Corke
• Paediatric advance care planning survey: a cross-sectional examination of congruence and discordance between adolescents with HIV/AIDS and their families (21 September, 2017)

  Maureen E Lyon, Ronald H Dallas, Patricia A Garvie, Megan L Wilkins, Ana Garcia, Yao Iris Cheng, Jichuan Wang