Three strands of activity can be identified in the history of pain measurement. The first,
psychophysics, dates back to the nineteenth century and measures the effect of analgesia by …

Background: In common with international health policy, The End of Life Care Strategy for
England has highlighted the delivery of high quality palliative care in the acute hospital setting …

Background: The Gold Standards Framework (GSF) was developed to improve the delivery
of palliative care in general practice. Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the first phase …

Goals of work The authors describe the use of cognitive interviewing methodology in the
development of a new supportive and palliative care screening measure to identify the …

Background While previous research has suggested that health care assistants supporting
palliative care work in the community regard the provision of emotional labour as a key …

Background The requirement to meet the palliative needs of acute hospital populations has
grown in recent years. With increasing numbers of frail older people needing hospital care …

METHODS Participants The interview sample consisted of 13 men and 2 women, mean age
69 years, all of whom knew that they had malignant pleural mesothelioma (Table 1). …

The objectives of this study were to establish the extent to which UK primary care has adopted
recommended practices on supportive and palliative care of adults with cancer, and to …

Background There is clear evidence that the full range of services required to support people
dying at home are far from being implemented, either in England or elsewhere. No studies …

The aim of this study was to explore the reasons why patients and families are referred to
specialist palliative care. Semi-structured interviews were undertaken with patients, and …