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Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study (2021)
Journal Article
Bajwah, S., Koffman, J., Hussain, J., Bradshaw, A., Hocaoglu, M. B., Fraser, L. K., …Murtagh, F. E. M. (2021). Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, bmjspcare-2021-003083. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003083

Objectives: To develop insights into response of palliative care services caring for people from ethnic minority groups during COVID-19.
Methods: Cross-sectional online survey of UK palliative care services response to COVID-19. Quantitative data w... Read More about Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study.

Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall) (2021)
Journal Article
Walshe, C., Garner, I., Dunleavy, L., Preston, N., Bradshaw, A., Cripps, R. L., …Higginson, I. J. (2022). Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall). International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(10), 2146-2154. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2021.128

Background: Volunteers are common within palliative care services, and provide support that enhances care quality. The support they provided, and any role changes, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are unknown. The aim of this s... Read More about Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall).

Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study (2021)
Journal Article
Guo, P., Pinto, C., Edwards, B., Pask, S., Firth, A., O’Brien, S., & Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study. Palliative medicine, 026921632110433. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211043371

Background: Transitions between care settings (hospice, hospital and community) can be challenging for patients and family caregivers and are often an under-researched area of health care, including palliative care. Aim: To explore the experience of... Read More about Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study.

Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Santarelli, M., Khamis, A. M., Sartain, K., Johnson, M., Boland, J., …Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy. BMJ open, 11(9), Article e051904. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051904

Introduction Person-centred outcome measures improve quality of care and patient outcomes but are used inconsistently in palliative care practice. To address this implementation gap, we developed the 'RESOLVE Implementation Strategy'. This protocol d... Read More about Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy.

Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review (2021)
Journal Article
Agar, M. R., Siddiqi, N., Hosie, A., Boland, J. W., Johnson, M. J., Featherstone, I., …Rose, L. (2021). Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review. Palliative medicine, 35(10), 1761-1775. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040186

Background: Trials of interventions for delirium in various patient populations report disparate outcomes and measures but little is known about those used in palliative care trials. A core outcome set promotes consistency of outcome selection and me... Read More about Outcomes and measures of delirium interventional studies in palliative care to inform a core outcome set: A systematic review.

Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations (2021)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, S. B., Bone, A. E., Finucane, A. M., McAleese, J., Higginson, I. J., Barclay, S., …Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine, 35(10), 1975-1984. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040981

Background: Understanding patterns of mortality and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic is important to help provide appropriate services and resources. Aims: To analyse patterns of mortality including place of death in the United Kingdom (UK... Read More about Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations.

Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action (2021)
Journal Article
Rybczynska-Bunt, S., Weston, L., Byng, R., Stirzaker, A., Lennox, C., Pearson, M., …Quinn, C. (2021). Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action. Evaluation, 27(4), 473-491. https://doi.org/10.1177/13563890211037699

Judgemental rationality is infrequently referenced within discussions of Realist Evaluations. Judgemental rationality refers to researchers’ capacity to assess which, potential, meanings provide the most credible explanations. In evaluation work, rat... Read More about Clarifying realist analytic and interdisciplinary consensus processes in a complex health intervention: A worked example of Judgemental Rationality in action.

“So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study (2021)
Journal Article
Daniel, S., Venkateswaran, C., Singh, C., Hutchinson, A., & Johnson, M. J. (in press). “So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-021-06475-4

Background: Psychological symptoms are common in women with breast cancer and profoundly affect their role in the family and wider community, varying across cultural backgrounds. Breast cancer is becoming the most common cancer among women in India.... Read More about “So, when a woman becomes ill, the total structure of the family is affected, they can’t do anything…” Voices from the community on women with breast cancer in India: a qualitative focus group study.

End-stage kidney disease (2021)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, F. (2021). End-stage kidney disease. In N. I. Cherny, M. T. Fallon, S. Kaasa, R. K. Portenoy, & D. C. Currow (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (1010-1019). (6th ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198821328.003.0095

End-stage kidney disease accounts for 1–2% of all deaths. With ageing of the population, this proportion will grow steadily over the coming years. Symptom burden in end-stage kidney disease exceeds advanced cancer, with added renal-specific symptoms,... Read More about End-stage kidney disease.

VAScular and Chronic Obstructive Lung disease (VASCOL): A longitudinal study on morbidity, symptoms and quality of life among older men in Blekinge county, Sweden (2021)
Journal Article
Olsson, M., Engström, G., Currow, D. C., Johnson, M., Sandberg, J., & Ekström, M. (2021). VAScular and Chronic Obstructive Lung disease (VASCOL): A longitudinal study on morbidity, symptoms and quality of life among older men in Blekinge county, Sweden. BMJ open, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-046473

Purpose Despite data showing breathlessness to be more prevalent in older adults, we have little detail about the severity or multidimensional characteristics of breathlessness and other self-reported measures (such as quality of life and other cardi... Read More about VAScular and Chronic Obstructive Lung disease (VASCOL): A longitudinal study on morbidity, symptoms and quality of life among older men in Blekinge county, Sweden.