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Pallative Care Evidence Update

January 2017

Pharmacological interventions for pruritus in adult palliative care patients
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Training interventions for improving telephone consultation skills in clinicians
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Palliative care interventions in advanced dementia
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What's new in palliative care
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Other Systematic Reviews

Perspectives of Primary Care Providers Toward Palliative Care for Their Patients.

Experiences and Preferences for End-of-Life Care for Young Adults with Cancer and Their Informal Carers: A Narrative Synthesis.

Assessing Palliative Care Content in Dementia Care Guidelines: A Systematic Review.

Palliative care for chronic illness: driving change.

Providing Appropriate End-of-Life Care to Religious and Ethnic Minorities.

'I have to live with the decisions I make': laying a foundation for decision making for children with life-limiting conditions and life-threatening illnesses.

End of Life Care for Infants, Children and Young People with Life-Limiting Conditions: Planning and Management.

Patient reported outcome measures of quality of end-of-life care: A systematic review.

An integrative review of how families are prepared for, and supported during withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in intensive care.

The preferences and perspectives of family caregivers towards place of care for their relatives at the end-of-life. A systematic review and thematic synthesis of the qualitative evidence.

Healthcare staff 's experience in providing end-of-life care to children: A mixed-method review.

Palliative and End-of-Life Care in Myelodysplastic Syndromes.

The nursing role during end-of-life care in the intensive care unit related to the interaction between patient, family and professional: an integrative review.



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News and Reports

How do you tell a child his mother is dying?
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Public Health England has published Public perceptions and experiences of community-based end of life care initiatives: a qualitative research report. This report is targeted at commissioners of end of life care services to support new ways of commissioning through using public health approaches to build compassionate communities

The Royal College of Nursing has updated its guidance on When someone asks for your assistance to die. According to the RCN, the guidelineis "developed  to support nurses, HCAs, and other health professionals in adult practice who may be asked by patients, or their families or carers, to become involved in assisting suicide. It covers the law on assisted suicide in the UK, as well as the law on advance decisions".

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