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Implementing the battery-operated hand-held fan as an evidence-based, non-pharmacological intervention for chronic breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a qualitative study of the views of specialist respiratory clinicians (2022)
Journal Article
Luckett, T., Roberts, M., Smith, T., Garcia, M., Dunn, S., Swan, F., Ferguson, C., Kochovska, S., Phillips, J. L., Pearson, M., Currow, D. C., & Johnson, M. J. (2022). Implementing the battery-operated hand-held fan as an evidence-based, non-pharmacological intervention for chronic breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a qualitative study of the views of specialist respiratory clinicians. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 22(1), Article 129. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01925-z

INTRODUCTION: The battery-operated hand-held fan ('fan') is an inexpensive and portable non-pharmacological intervention for chronic breathlessness. Evidence from randomised controlled trials suggests the fan reduces breathlessness intensity and impr... Read More about Implementing the battery-operated hand-held fan as an evidence-based, non-pharmacological intervention for chronic breathlessness in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a qualitative study of the views of specialist respiratory clinicians.

Lower workforce participation is associated with more severe persisting breathlessness (2022)
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Clark, J., Chang, S., Kinchin, I., Ferreira, D., Kochovska, S., Morgan, D., Poulos, L. M., Johnson, M. J., Ekström, M., & Currow, D. C. (2022). Lower workforce participation is associated with more severe persisting breathlessness. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 22(1), Article 93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01861-y

Background: Not being able to work has negative health, social and financial consequences. Persisting breathlessness is prevalent in working-aged people. Is it associated with lower workforce participation? This study, using the South Australian Heal... Read More about Lower workforce participation is associated with more severe persisting breathlessness.

Symptom burden and lived experiences of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals on the management of malignant bowel obstruction: A qualitative systematic review (2022)
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Baddeley, E., Mann, M., Bravington, A., Johnson, M. J., Currow, D., Murtagh, F. E., Boland, E., Obita, G., Oliver, A., Seddon, K., Nelson, A., Boland, J. W., & Noble, S. (in press). Symptom burden and lived experiences of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals on the management of malignant bowel obstruction: A qualitative systematic review. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163221081331

Background: Malignant bowel obstruction occurs in up to 50% of people with advanced ovarian and 15% of people with gastrointestinal cancers. Evaluation and comparison of interventions to manage symptoms are hampered by inconsistent evaluations of eff... Read More about Symptom burden and lived experiences of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals on the management of malignant bowel obstruction: A qualitative systematic review.

COVID-19: Impact on Pediatric Palliative Care (2022)
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Scott, H. M., Coombes, L., Braybrook, D., Roach, A., Harðardóttir, D., Bristowe, K., Ellis-Smith, C., Higginson, I., Gao, W., Bluebond-Langner, M., Farsides, B., Murtagh, F. E., Fraser, L. K., & Harding, R. (in press). COVID-19: Impact on Pediatric Palliative Care. Journal of pain and symptom management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.02.330

Context: Children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families are potentially vulnerable during COVID-19 lockdowns due to pre-existing high clinical support needs and social participation limitations. Objecti... Read More about COVID-19: Impact on Pediatric Palliative Care.

Towards codesign in respiratory care: development of an implementation-ready intervention to improve guideline-adherent adult asthma care across primary and secondary care settings (The SENTINEL Project) (2022)
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Crowther, L., Pearson, M., Cummings, H., & Crooks, M. G. (2022). Towards codesign in respiratory care: development of an implementation-ready intervention to improve guideline-adherent adult asthma care across primary and secondary care settings (The SENTINEL Project). BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 9(1), Article e001155. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2021-001155

Short-acting beta agonist (SABA) overuse (≥3 canisters annually) is associated with worse asthma outcomes and accounts for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from asthma inhalers in England. Reducing SABA overuse aligns with the National Health... Read More about Towards codesign in respiratory care: development of an implementation-ready intervention to improve guideline-adherent adult asthma care across primary and secondary care settings (The SENTINEL Project).

Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study (2022)
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Bradshaw, A., Dunleavy, L., Garner, I., Preston, N., Bajwah, S., Cripps, R., Fraser, L. K., Maddocks, M., Hocaoglu, M., Murtagh, F. E., Oluyase, A. O., Sleeman, K. E., Higginson, I. J., Walshe, C., & CovPall study team. (in press). Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/01410768221077366

Objective: To explore the experiences of, and impact on, staff working in palliative care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design: Qualitative multiple case study using semi-structured interviews between November 2020 and April 2021 as part of the CovPa... Read More about Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study.

Conceptualising effective symptom management in palliative care: a novel model derived from qualitative data (2022)
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Chapman, E. J., Pini, S., Edwards, Z., Elmokhallalati, Y., Murtagh, F. E., & Bennett, M. I. (2022). Conceptualising effective symptom management in palliative care: a novel model derived from qualitative data. BMC Palliative Care, 21(1), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-022-00904-9

BACKGROUND: Pain, breathlessness and fatigue are some of the most challenging symptoms to manage in patients with advanced disease. Specialist palliative care leads to better symptom management, but factors contributing to successful symptom manageme... Read More about Conceptualising effective symptom management in palliative care: a novel model derived from qualitative data.

Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure (2022)
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King, C., Khamis, A., Ross, J., Murtagh, F. E., Johnson, M. J., & Ramsenthaler, C. (in press). Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure. Journal of pain and symptom management, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2022.01.014

Context: People with advanced heart failure have supportive and palliative needs requiring systematic assessment. Objectives: We aimed to assess the validity of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF). Methods: Seco... Read More about Concurrent validity and prognostic utility of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease Heart Failure.

Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians (2022)
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Krajnik, M., Hepgul, N., Wilcock, A., Jassem, E., Bandurski, T., Tanzi, S., Simon, S. T., Higginson, I. J., Jolley, C. J., Arendt-Nowakowska, A., Bajwah, S., Bausewein, C., Bazata, J., Bolton, C., Bonelli, C., Brindle, R., Brown, S., Costantini, M., Currow, D., Dimbleby, C., …Walker, F. (2022). Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians. BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 22(1), Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-022-01835-0

Background: Respiratory medicine (RM) and palliative care (PC) physicians’ management of chronic breathlessness in advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), fibrotic interstitial lung disease (fILD) and lung cancer (LC), and the influenc... Read More about Do guidelines influence breathlessness management in advanced lung diseases? A multinational survey of respiratory medicine and palliative care physicians.

Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique (2022)
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Hussain, J. A., White, I. R., Johnson, M. J., Byrne, A., Preston, N. J., Haines, A., Seddon, K., & Peters, T. J. (2022). Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique. Palliative medicine, 36(1), 59-70. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211065597

Background: Missing data can introduce bias and reduce the power, precision and generalisability of study findings. Guidelines on how to address missing data are limited in scope and detail, and poorly implemented. Aim: To develop guidelines on how b... Read More about Development of guidelines to reduce, handle and report missing data in palliative care trials: A multi-stakeholder modified nominal group technique.