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Research

• Clinical characteristics of patients having single versus multiple patient encounters within a palliative care programme (4 February, 2016)

  Sonya S Lowe, Cheryl Nekolaichuk, Sunita Ghosh, Lara Fainsinger, Hue Quan, Robin Fainsinger
• Costs of Family Caregiving in Palliative Care (COFAC) questionnaire: development and piloting of a new survey tool (17 February, 2017)

  Clare Gardiner, Chris McDermott, Claire Hulme
• Sleep quality with WHO Step III opioid use for cancer pain (17 July, 2018)

  Gunnhild Jakobsen, Morten Engstrøm, Peter Fayers, Marianne J Hjermstad, Stein Kaasa, Marianne Kloke, Rainer Sabatowski, Pal Klepstad
• Advance care planning in England: Is there an association with place of death? Secondary analysis of data from the National Survey of Bereaved People (16 June, 2016)

  Josie Dixon, Derek King, Martin Knapp
• Prognosis prediction with two calculations of Palliative Prognostic Index: further prospective validation in hospice cancer patients with multicentre study (5 March, 2018)

  Sivakumar Subramaniam, Pauline Dand, Martin Ridout, Declan Cawley, Sophie Miller, Paola Valli, Rebecca Bright, Brendan O’Neill, Tricia Wilcocks, Georgina Parker, Dee Harris
• Palliative stenting for oesophagogastric cancer: tumour and host factors and prognosis (23 March, 2018)

  James Hugh Park, Niall Woodley, Donald C McMillan, Paul Glen
• Good concordance between patients and their non-professional carers about factors associated with a ‘good death’ and other important end-of-life decisions (17 May, 2016)

  Andrew Davies, Jennifer Todd, Fiona Bailey, Amanda Gregory, Melanie Waghorn
• Loss, transition and trust: perspectives of terminally ill patients and their oncologists when transferring care from the hospital into the community at the end of life (3 June, 2016)

  Clare Smith, Nick Bosanquet, Julia Riley, Jonathan Koffman