Background Pain is frequently an undetected cause of agitation and distress in dementia; and thus often a cause of behavioural and psychological symptom of dementia (BPSD). Despite a plethora of tools ...

Background New technologies, such as artificial intelligence (AI), supported by novel ways of linking and analysing data, are transforming the way that healthcare data is analysed. AI is increasingly ...

Background Dementia is a progressive neurodegenerative life-limiting disease. The international literature indicates that patients with advanced dementia can benefit from palliative care (PC) provided ...

To the Editor In March 2020 we published a rapid review of the use of video consultations in palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic.1 We suggested that although video consultation cannot fully ...

Objectives Improved understanding of the stability and consistency of symptom clusters across time, symptom dimensions and cancer diagnoses will lead to refinements in symptom assessments and ...

Objective This study aims to investigate the safety and feasibility of early oral feeding in patients with gastric cancer after gastrectomy. Methods A total of 135 patients with gastric cancer who ...

Background Inequalities in access to hospice care is a source of considerable concern; white, middle-class, middle-aged patients with cancer have traditionally been over-represented in hospice ...