Outputs (54)

Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data (2021)
Journal Article
Bayly, J., Bradshaw, A., Fettes, L., Omarjee, M., Talbot-Rice, H., Walshe, C., …Maddocks, M. (in press). Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211063397

Background: Palliative rehabilitation involves multi-professional processes and interventions aimed at optimising patients’ symptom self-management, independence and social participation throughout advanced illness. Rehabilitation services were highl... Read More about Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data.

Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis (2021)
Journal Article
Pocock, L. V., Purdy, S., Barclay, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Selman, L. E. (2021). Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis. BMJ open, 11(12), Article e055731. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055731

Introduction People dying in Britain spend, on average, 3 weeks of their last year of life in hospital. Hospital discharge presents an opportunity for secondary care clinicians to communicate to general practitioners (GPs) which patients may have a p... Read More about Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis.

Risk factors for delirium in adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis (2021)
Journal Article
Featherstone, I., Sheldon, T., Woodhouse, R., Boland, J. W., Hosie, A., Lawlor, P. G., …Johnson, M. (in press). Risk factors for delirium in adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211065278

Background: Delirium is common and distressing for patients receiving palliative care. Interventions targetting modifiable risk factors in other settings have been shown to prevent delirium. Research on delirium risk factors in palliative care can in... Read More about Risk factors for delirium in adult patients receiving specialist palliative care: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall) (2021)
Journal Article
Sleeman, K. E., Cripps, R. L., Murtagh, F. E., Oluyase, A. O., Hocaoglu, M. B., Maddocks, M., …on behalf of the CovPall Study Team. (2022). Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall). Journal of palliative medicine, 25(3), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0315

Objectives: To identify factors associated with palliative care services being busier during Covid-19. Methods: Cross-sectional online survey of UK palliative care services (April to July 2020) (CovPall). Ethical approval was received from King's Col... Read More about Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall).

Prevalence and severity of differing dimensions of breathlessness among elderly males in the population (2021)
Journal Article
Olsson, M., Currow, D. C., Johnson, M. J., Sandberg, J., Engström, G., & Ekstrom, M. (2022). Prevalence and severity of differing dimensions of breathlessness among elderly males in the population. ERJ Open Research, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00553-2021

Breathlessness is common in the general population. Existing data were obtained primarily with the uni-dimensional modified Medical Research Council breathlessness scale (mMRC) that does not assess intensities of unpleasantness nor physical, emotiona... Read More about Prevalence and severity of differing dimensions of breathlessness among elderly males in the population.

Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Pearson, M., & Murtagh, F. (2021). Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary. Rivista italiana di cure palliative, 23(4), 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1726/3702.36924

Individual-level outcome measures are an important aspect of palliative care. They are tools that can drive high-quality, person-centred care through providing healthcare professionals and services with valuable information about the patients we see... Read More about Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary.

Breathlessness dimensions association with physical and mental quality of life – the population based VASCOL study of elderly men (2021)
Journal Article
Cristea, L., Olsson, M., Currow, D., Johnson, M., Sandberg, J., & Ekström, M. (2021). Breathlessness dimensions association with physical and mental quality of life – the population based VASCOL study of elderly men. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 8(1), Article e000990. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2021-000990

Background Breathlessness is a multidimensional symptom prevalent in elderly affecting many aspects of life. We aimed to determine how different dimensions of breathlessness are associated with physical and mental quality of life (QoL) in elderly men... Read More about Breathlessness dimensions association with physical and mental quality of life – the population based VASCOL study of elderly men.

Health service utilisation associated with chronic breathlessness: random population sample (2021)
Journal Article
Currow, D. C., Chang, S., Ekström, M., Luckett, T., Kochovska, S., Hay, P., …Johnson, M. J. (2021). Health service utilisation associated with chronic breathlessness: random population sample. ERJ Open Research, 7(4), Article 00415-2021. https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00415-2021

Background Most health service utilisation studies are of people with specific diagnoses or demographic characteristics, and rarely of specific chronic symptoms. The aim of this study was to establish whether population-level health service utilisati... Read More about Health service utilisation associated with chronic breathlessness: random population sample.

The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience (2021)
Journal Article
Chen, H., Twiddy, M., Jones, L., & Johnson, M. J. (2021). The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience. European Journal of Cancer Care, 30(6), Article e13503. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.13503

Objective: The objective of this study is to explore the specific information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer to inform the development of educational materials for clinicians. Methods: This is a qualitative descriptive stu... Read More about The unique information and communication needs of men affected by prostate cancer: A qualitative study of men's experience.

Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials (2021)
Journal Article
Hussain, J. A., White, I. R., Johnson, M. J., Bland, M., & Currow, D. C. (2021). Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040970

Background: Missing data compromise the internal and external validity of trial findings, however there is limited evidence on how best to reduce missing data in palliative care trials. Aim: To assess the association between participant and site leve... Read More about Performance status and trial site-level factors are associated with missing data in palliative care trials: An individual participant-level data analysis of 10 phase 3 trials.