All Outputs (5)

Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the ‘good death’ in mixed species families. (2024)
Journal Article
Ashall, V., Hamilton, L., Johnson, M., & Latimer, J. (2024). Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the ‘good death’ in mixed species families. Symbolic Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.689

Through an innovative interspecies analysis, this article explores narratives surrounding the medical treatment of humans and pet animals at the end of life among UK veterinary surgeons, medical practitioners and members of the public. Contrasting th... Read More about Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the ‘good death’ in mixed species families..

Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): Feasibility Study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care (2024)
Journal Article
Jackson, G., Jackson, C., Boland, J., Featherstone, I., Huang, C., Ogden, M., …Johnson, M. (2024). Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): Feasibility Study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care. Palliative medicine, 38(4), 447-456. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241236325

Background Delirium is a complex condition, stressful for all involved. Although highly prevalent in palliative care settings, it remains underdiagnosed and associated with poor outcomes. Guideline-adherent delirium care may improve its detection, a... Read More about Improving the Detection, Assessment, Management, and Prevention of Delirium in Hospices (the DAMPen-D study): Feasibility Study of a flexible and scalable implementation strategy to deliver guideline-adherent delirium care.

Needs and experiences of homecare workers when supporting people to live at home at the end of life: A rapid review (2024)
Journal Article
Forward, C., Bayley, Z., Walker, L., Krygier, J., White, C., Mwaba, K., …Johnson, M. J. (in press). Needs and experiences of homecare workers when supporting people to live at home at the end of life: A rapid review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004737

Background Social homecare workers provide essential care to those living at home at the end of life. In the context of a service experiencing difficulties in attracting and retaining staff, we have limited knowledge about the training, support needs... Read More about Needs and experiences of homecare workers when supporting people to live at home at the end of life: A rapid review.

Creating more comparable cohorts in observational palliative care studies: a proposed framework to improve applicability and replicability of research (2024)
Journal Article
Kochovska, S., Murtagh, F. E., Agar, M., Phillips, J. L., Dudgeon, D., Lujic, S., …Currow, D. C. (in press). Creating more comparable cohorts in observational palliative care studies: a proposed framework to improve applicability and replicability of research. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241234227

Background Palliative care is characterised by heterogeneous patient and caregiver populations who are provided care in different health systems and a research base including a large proportion of observational, mostly retrospective studies. The inh... Read More about Creating more comparable cohorts in observational palliative care studies: a proposed framework to improve applicability and replicability of research.

Hospital admissions in the last year of life of patients with heart failure (2024)
Journal Article
AI Abel, A., Samuel, N. A., Cuthbert, J. J., Brown, O. I., Pellicori, P., Kazmi, S., …Clark, A. L. (2024). Hospital admissions in the last year of life of patients with heart failure. European Heart Journal - Quality of Care and Clinical Outcomes, 10(2), 168-175. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehjqcco/qcad047

Aim To explore the frequency, causes, and pattern of hospitalisation for patients with chronic heart failure (HF) in the 12 months preceding death. We also investigated cause of death. Methods Patients referred to a secondary care HF clinic were rout... Read More about Hospital admissions in the last year of life of patients with heart failure.