Outputs (61)

Morphine for the symptomatic reduction of chronic breathlessness: the case for controlled release (2020)
Journal Article
Currow, D. C., Kochovska, S., Ferreira, D., & Johnson, M. (2020). Morphine for the symptomatic reduction of chronic breathlessness: the case for controlled release. Current opinion in supportive and palliative care, 14(3), 177-181. https://doi.org/10.1097/SPC.0000000000000520

Purpose of Review:
Clinicians who seek to reduce the symptomatic burden of chronic breathlessness by initiating regular low dose morphine have the choice of immediate or sustained release formulations - which will be better for this often frail popu... Read More about Morphine for the symptomatic reduction of chronic breathlessness: the case for controlled release.

The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers (2020)
Journal Article
Bajwah, S., Oluyase, A. O., Yi, D., Gao, W., Evans, C. J., Grande, G., Todd, C., Costantini, M., Murtagh, F. E., & Higginson, I. J. (2020). The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 2020(9), Article CD012780. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD012780.pub2

Background
Serious illness is often characterised by physical/psychological problems, family support needs, and high healthcare resource use. Hospital‐based specialist palliative care (HSPC) has developed to assist in better meeting the needs of pat... Read More about The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of hospital-based specialist palliative care for adults with advanced illness and their caregivers.

The stability of care preferences following acute illness: a mixed methods prospective cohort study of frail older people (2020)
Journal Article
Etkind, S., Lovell, N., Bone, A., Guo, P., Nicholson, C., Murtagh, F. E., & Higginson, I. J. (2020). The stability of care preferences following acute illness: a mixed methods prospective cohort study of frail older people. BMC Geriatrics, 20(1), Article 370. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-020-01725-2

Background: Patient preferences are integral to person-centred care, but preference stability is poorly understood in older people, who may experience fluctuant illness trajectories with episodes of acute illness. We aimed to describe, and explore in... Read More about The stability of care preferences following acute illness: a mixed methods prospective cohort study of frail older people.

Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self (2020)
Book
Whiting, D. (2020). Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self. Palgrave Macmillan (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54682-3

This book defends the much-disputed view that emotions are what Hume referred to as 'original existences': feeling states that have no intentional or representational properties of their own. In doing so, the book serves as a valuable counterbalance... Read More about Emotions as Original Existences: A Theory of Emotion, Motivation and the Self.

‘I don’t talk about my distress to others; I feel that I have to suffer my problems..’ Voices of Indian women with breast cancer: a qualitative interview study (2020)
Journal Article
Daniel, S., Venkateswaran, C., Hutchinson, A., & Johnson, M. J. (2020). ‘I don’t talk about my distress to others; I feel that I have to suffer my problems..’ Voices of Indian women with breast cancer: a qualitative interview study. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-020-05756-8

Background: Breast cancer is the commonest form of cancer among women globally, including in India. The rising incidence in the developing world is thought to be due to increased life expectancy, urbanization and adoption of western lifestyles. A rec... Read More about ‘I don’t talk about my distress to others; I feel that I have to suffer my problems..’ Voices of Indian women with breast cancer: a qualitative interview study.

The Prepare for Kidney Care Study: prepare for renal dialysis versus responsive management in advanced chronic kidney disease (2020)
Journal Article
Murphy, E., Burns, A., Murtagh, F. E., Rooshenas, L., & Caskey, F. J. (2021). The Prepare for Kidney Care Study: prepare for renal dialysis versus responsive management in advanced chronic kidney disease. Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation, 36(6), 975-982. https://doi.org/10.1093/ndt/gfaa209

Shared decision making in advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) requires unbiased information on survival and person-centred outcomes known to matter to patients: quality of life, symptom burden and support from family and healthcare professionals. T... Read More about The Prepare for Kidney Care Study: prepare for renal dialysis versus responsive management in advanced chronic kidney disease.

Implementation of a complex intervention to improve care for patients whose situations are clinically uncertain in hospital settings: A multi-method study using normalisation process theory (2020)
Journal Article
Johnson, H., Yorganci, E., Evans, C. J., Barclay, S., Murtagh, F. E., Yi, D., Gao, W., Sampson, E. L., Droney, J., Farquhar, M., & Koffman, J. (2020). Implementation of a complex intervention to improve care for patients whose situations are clinically uncertain in hospital settings: A multi-method study using normalisation process theory. PLoS ONE, 15(9), Article e0239181. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0239181

PURPOSE: To examine the use of Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) to establish if, and in what ways, the AMBER care bundle can be successfully normalised into acute hospital practice, and to identify necessary modifications to optimise its implementa... Read More about Implementation of a complex intervention to improve care for patients whose situations are clinically uncertain in hospital settings: A multi-method study using normalisation process theory.

ERS Scientific Working Group 09.04, “Psychologists and behavioural scientists”: The next step towards multidisciplinary respiratory care (2020)
Journal Article
Heijmans, M., von Leupoldt, A., Brighton, L. J., Peters, J., Volpato, E., Verkleij, M., Hutchinson, A., Heymans, M., Farver-Vestergaard, I., Langer, D., & Spruit, M. A. (2020). ERS Scientific Working Group 09.04, “Psychologists and behavioural scientists”: The next step towards multidisciplinary respiratory care. European respiratory journal, 56(3), Article 2001881. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01881-2020

International variation in dialysis discontinuation in patients with advanced kidney disease (2020)
Journal Article
Jassal, S. V., Larkina, M., Jager, K. J., Murtagh, F. E., O’Hare, A. M., Hanafusa, N., Morgenstern, H., Port, F. K., McCullough, K., Pisoni, R., Tentori, F., Perlman, R., & Swartz, R. D. (2020). International variation in dialysis discontinuation in patients with advanced kidney disease. Canadian Medical Association Journal, 192(35), E995-E1002. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.191631

BACKGROUND: Decisions about dialysis for advanced kidney disease are often strongly shaped by sociocultural and system-level factors rather than the priorities and values of individual patients. We examined international variation in the uptake of co... Read More about International variation in dialysis discontinuation in patients with advanced kidney disease.

Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study (2020)
Journal Article
Kochovska, S., Chang, S., Morgan, D. D., Ferreira, D., Sidhu, M., Saleh Moussa, R., Johnson, M. J., Ekström, M., & Currow, D. C. (2020). Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study. Palliative Medicine Reports, 1(1), 166-170. https://doi.org/10.1089/pmr.2020.0083

Background
Chronic breathlessness is a prevalent, disabling syndrome affecting many people for years. Identifying the impact of chronic breathlessness on people’s activities in the general population is pivotal for designing symptom management strat... Read More about Activities forgone because of chronic breathlessness: a cross-sectional, population prevalence study.