ImproveCare: The management of clinical uncertainty in end of life care � a feasibility cluster RCT Feb 27, 2017 - Sep 30, 2018
Projects (69)
Bringing breathlessness into view May 1, 2017 - Aug 31, 2017
People living with breathlessness find their experience hard to describe, so hide it from others. This workshop brings together local people with breathlessness and a Hull-based artist to create the ideas for a public photographic exhibition showing...
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BREATHE: Breathlessness RElief AT HomE Apr 1, 2019 - Oct 31, 2021
A feasibility study to address this RQ:
Does a paramedic-administered short non-pharmacological complex breathlessness intervention improve breathlessness and reduce conveyance to ED for people with breathlessness crisis compared with usual pr...
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RESOLVE: Improving Health Status and Experience of Pain and other Symptoms for People with Advanced Cancer Jun 1, 2018 - Jan 28, 2024
In Yorkshire, over 14,000 people die from advanced cancer each year, a number expected to rise to 17,000 yearly by 2030. In the weeks or months before they die, people with advanced cancer often experience pain, breathlessness or fatigue-exhaustion,...
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RAMBO: Research Assessment Outcome Measures for Malignant Bowel Obstruction Jul 1, 2019 - Nov 30, 2021
Malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) is a common problem faced by patients with advanced cancer of the ovaries and bowel. It occurs when the cancer causes a blockage or blockages in the intestines. The symptoms are very distressing for patients and thei...
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PrepareME: The Prepare Multi-Morbid Older People for End-stage Kidney Disease Trial Jan 1, 2017 - Dec 31, 2021
Yorkshire generalist palliative care guidelines Apr 1, 2015 - Jul 31, 2025
Thanks Katherine, It would be April to April: Consultant - 10 days = £3067 (to HEY) Secretary - average of 0.5 days/week over 3 months, basic banding (?band4) Printing - 15,000 booklets, A5, soft bound, 40 pages App development Travel - 150 miles for...
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CANAssess: Reducing inequalities in care for people with cancer and palliative care needs: a programme of work for cancer patients and caregivers in the community based in Yorkshire Sep 1, 2016 - Jan 30, 2019
People with cancer need good access to palliative care to relieve distressing symptoms, but some get better access than others. Developed in Australia, the Needs Assessment Tool - Progressive Disease Cancer (NAT:PD-C) is a tested, "everyday practice"...
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BreatheMOR: Morphine for the relief of breathlessness in stable chronic heart failure Oct 1, 2013 - Feb 28, 2019
Opioids have been used for centuries to relieve pain and other symptoms. A meta-analysis in 2002 of eight randomised controlled trials (RCTs) showed that opioids had a clinically relevant beneficial effect on dyspnoea in people with mainly chronic ob...
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NAT ILD: The adaption and validation of an assessment tool to identify the palliative care needs of people with irreversible idiopathic interstitial lung disease for use in every day clinical practice Jun 1, 2014 - Oct 31, 2016
To adapt and validate a needs assessment tool that is fit for purpose in every day clinical practice with regard to the identification of supportive and palliative needs of people with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), and triage those requiring r...
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Research Care Plus Group Jan 1, 2016 - Dec 31, 2016
The NE Lincolnshire palliative care research team has been developing over the past year and has been successful in being involved in two portfolio adopted studies which have recruited to (one of which we recruited over 50% more than average). The te...
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HIDDEN: Hospice Inpatient Deep vein thrombosis detection study May 27, 2016 - Dec 31, 2019
Between four and 20% of cancer patients will develop venous thromboembolism (VTE) during their illness but the true number is unknown as patients may be asymptomatic. Furthermore, we do not know whether apparently “silent” deep vein thromboses (DVTs)...
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BETTER B: BETter TreatmEnts for Refractory Breathlessness Oct 1, 2016 - Mar 31, 2018
Breathlessness is a common, distressing, symptom in advanced disease, causing considerable disability for patients,1, 2 and anxiety and social isolation for them and their family and carers.3-5 Breathlessness (also called dyspnea or dyspnoea) is usua...
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Caring together evaluation project Dec 1, 2014 - Aug 1, 2016
APPEAL: Antenatal Prophylactic Pelvic floor Exercises And Localisation Programme Nov 27, 2017 - Sep 30, 2022
Antenatal Prophylactic Pelvic floor Exercises And Localisation (APPEAL) brings together a programme of research to prevent poor health linked to pregnancy and childbirth-related urinary incontinence. The aim of APPEALis to increase the number of wom...
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