All Outputs (3)

Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer (2024)
Journal Article
Boland, E. G., Tay, K. T., Khamis, A., & Murtagh, F. E. (2024). Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 32(7), Article 432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-024-08624-x

Purpose: Upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers contribute to 16.7% of UK cancer deaths. These patients make high use of acute hospital services, but detail about palliative care use is lacking. We aimed to determine the patterns of use of acute hospita... Read More about Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer.

Development of a Core Outcome Set for the research and assessment of malignant bowel obstruction (2023)
Journal Article
Bravington, A., Obita, G., Baddeley, E., Johnson, M., Murtagh, F., Currow, D., …Boland, J. (2023). Development of a Core Outcome Set for the research and assessment of malignant bowel obstruction. PLoS ONE, 18(8), Article e0289501. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289501

Background: Malignant bowel obstruction is experienced by 15% of people with advanced cancer, preventing them from eating and drinking and causing pain, nausea and vomiting. Surgery is not always appropriate. Management options include tube or stent... Read More about Development of a Core Outcome Set for the research and assessment of malignant bowel obstruction.

High-quality phase 3 studies do not support the use of somatostatin analogues to reduce vomiting in malignant bowel obstruction (2023)
Journal Article
Boland, J. W., Boland, E. G., & Currow, D. C. (2023). High-quality phase 3 studies do not support the use of somatostatin analogues to reduce vomiting in malignant bowel obstruction. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 31(4), Article 211. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-023-07669-8