Outputs (19)

Palliative care – what’s the evidence? (2025)
Journal Article
Pask, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Boland, J. W. (2025). Palliative care – what’s the evidence?. Clinical Medicine, 25(4), Article 100320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100320

Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care (‘non-specialists’). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care s... Read More about Palliative care – what’s the evidence?.

What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents (2025)
Journal Article
Braybrook, D., Coombes, L., Scott, H. M., Harðardóttir, D., Roach, A., Bariuan, J., Ellis-Smith, C., Downing, J., Murtagh, F. E. M., Bluebond-Langner, M., Fraser, L. K., Harding, R., & Bristowe, K. (2025). What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents. Patient, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-025-00744-8

Background
Globally, over 21 million children need palliative care each year. Although guidelines exist to support paediatric palliative care delivery, they are not informed by the experiences of children themselves.

Objective
We aimed to determ... Read More about What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents.

Optimising Digital Advance Care Planning Implementation in Palliative and End-of-life Care: A multi-phase mixed-methods national research programme and recommendations (2025)
Journal Article
Allsop, M. J., Birtwistle, J., Bennett, M. I., Bradshaw, A., Carder, P., Evans, C. J., Foy, R., Heavin, C., Hibbert, B., Martin, P. M., Relton, S. D., Richards, S. H., Twiddy, M., & Sleeman, K. E. (2025). Optimising Digital Advance Care Planning Implementation in Palliative and End-of-life Care: A multi-phase mixed-methods national research programme and recommendations. BMC medicine, 23, Article 291. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-025-04114-x

Background: Digital advance care planning (DACP) is increasingly used globally for patients with life-limiting conditions to support real-time documentation and the sharing of preferences for care. There has been low engagement with DACP systems, wit... Read More about Optimising Digital Advance Care Planning Implementation in Palliative and End-of-life Care: A multi-phase mixed-methods national research programme and recommendations.

A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study (2025)
Journal Article
Namisango, E., Murtagh, F. E., Bristowe, K., Downing, J., Powell, R. A., Atieno, M., Sandham, M., Ali, Z., Meiring, M., Mwangi-Powell, F. N., Abbas, M., Fraser, L. K., Higginson, I. J., & Harding, R. (2025). A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study. Health and quality of life outcomes, 23, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-025-02346-2

Background: Outcome measurement is pivotal to person-centred assessment, quality improvement and research. Children and young people with life-limiting and -threatening illness have high needs and service use, yet there is a lack of evidence for inte... Read More about A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study.

Support for hospital doctors' workplace well-being in England: The Care under Pressure 3 realist evaluation (2025)
Journal Article
Melvin, A., Pearson, A., Carrieri, D., Bramwell, C., Hancock, J., Scott, J., Foster Collins, H., McPhail, S., Pearson, M., Papoutsi, C., Wong, G., & Mattick, K. (2025). Support for hospital doctors' workplace well-being in England: The Care under Pressure 3 realist evaluation. BMJ Quality and Safety, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2024-017698

Introduction: The vital role of medical workforce well-being for improving patient experience and population health while assuring safety and reducing costs is recognised internationally. Yet the persistence of poor well-being outcomes suggests that... Read More about Support for hospital doctors' workplace well-being in England: The Care under Pressure 3 realist evaluation.

Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework (2025)
Journal Article
Murillo-Zepeda, C., Pearson, M., & Ellawala, A. (2025). Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework. Clinical Teacher, 22(3), Article e70092. https://doi.org/10.1111/tct.70092

Background: Interventions aimed at supporting international medical graduates during the transition to host countries facilitate adjustment to these new workplace environments. Despite the progress made on clarifying the mechanisms operating behind s... Read More about Quality Standards of Transitional Programmes for International Medical Graduates: An International Modified Delphi Study to Develop a Theory-Based Framework.

Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis (2025)
Journal Article
Bullock, A., Newton-Clarke, A., Johnson, M. J., Murtagh, F. E., & Nwulu, U. (2025). Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0321313. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321313

Objectives: Unintentional weight loss in older adults is common, with 15-20% of those aged >65 having clinically significant weight loss, associated with increased mortality and morbidity. People with socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to be... Read More about Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis.

Complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): a feasibility, wait-list design randomised controlled trial (2025)
Journal Article
Crooks, M. G., Wright, C., Hart, S., Allgar, V., English, A., Swan, F., Dyson, J., Richardson, G., Twiddy, M., Cohen, J., Simpson, A., Huang, C., Sykes, D. L., & Johnson, M. (2025). Complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): a feasibility, wait-list design randomised controlled trial. BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 12(1), Article e002327. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjresp-2024-002327

Introduction Breathlessness is common and impairs the quality of life of people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and non-IPF fibrotic interstitial lung diseases (ILD). We report the findings of a multicentre, fast-track (wait-list), mixed-met... Read More about Complex breathlessness intervention in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (BREEZE-IPF): a feasibility, wait-list design randomised controlled trial.

Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data (2025)
Journal Article
Davies, J. M., Chua, K. C., Maddocks, M., Murtagh, F. E., & Sleeman, K. E. (2025). Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data. SSM - Population Health, 30, Article 101784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101784

Background: Where people die depends on many factors and is important to the quality of end-of-life care. Many people prefer to avoid end-of-life hospital admissions and yet hospital remains the most common place of death across high-income countries... Read More about Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data.

The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report (2025)
Report
King, E., Presicce, G., Dunn, R., Prior, H., & White, C. (2025). The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Executive Summary:
This research project explored the effectiveness of a pioneering stroke rehabilitation programme called the STROKESTRA Community Programme (SCP). The SCP aimed to facilitate recovery in stroke survivors and to support their carers... Read More about The STROKESTRA® Community Programme: Research Report.