All Outputs (136)

Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD (2022)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, F. E., Wilson, J., & Davison, S. N. (2022). Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD. In M. Harber (Ed.), Primer on Nephrology (1163-1174). Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76419-7_68

Palliative and supportive care have always been important for those with advanced CKD, but – until recently – there has been little research or evidence to inform best care. This is changing rapidly. This chapter draws on recent evidence to provide a... Read More about Thinking About the Future, Symptom Control and Other Aspects of Palliative Care in Advanced CKD.

Symptom burden and lived experiences of patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals on the management of malignant bowel obstruction: A qualitative systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Baddeley, E., Mann, M., Bravington, A., Johnson, M. J., Currow, D., Murtagh, F. E., …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)
Journal Article
Scott, H. M., Coombes, L., Braybrook, D., Roach, A., Harðardóttir, D., Bristowe, 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.

Experiences of staff providing specialist palliative care during COVID-19: a multiple qualitative case study (2022)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Dunleavy, L., Garner, I., Preston, N., Bajwah, S., Cripps, R., …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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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.

Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data (2021)
Journal Article
Bayly, J., Bradshaw, A., Fettes, L., Omarjee, M., Talbot-Rice, H., Walshe, C., …Maddocks, M. (in press). Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211063397

Background: Palliative rehabilitation involves multi-professional processes and interventions aimed at optimising patients’ symptom self-management, independence and social participation throughout advanced illness. Rehabilitation services were highl... Read More about Understanding the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on delivery of rehabilitation in specialist palliative care services: An analysis of the CovPall-Rehab survey data.

Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis (2021)
Journal Article
Pocock, L. V., Purdy, S., Barclay, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Selman, L. E. (2021). Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis. BMJ open, 11(12), Article e055731. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-055731

Introduction People dying in Britain spend, on average, 3 weeks of their last year of life in hospital. Hospital discharge presents an opportunity for secondary care clinicians to communicate to general practitioners (GPs) which patients may have a p... Read More about Communication of poor prognosis between secondary and primary care: protocol for a systematic review with narrative synthesis.

Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall) (2021)
Journal Article
Sleeman, K. E., Cripps, R. L., Murtagh, F. E., Oluyase, A. O., Hocaoglu, M. B., Maddocks, M., …on behalf of the CovPall Study Team. (2022). Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall). Journal of palliative medicine, 25(3), 465-471. https://doi.org/10.1089/jpm.2021.0315

Objectives: To identify factors associated with palliative care services being busier during Covid-19. Methods: Cross-sectional online survey of UK palliative care services (April to July 2020) (CovPall). Ethical approval was received from King's Col... Read More about Change in Activity of Palliative Care Services during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Multinational Survey (CovPall).

Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Pearson, M., & Murtagh, F. (2021). Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary. Rivista italiana di cure palliative, 23(4), 197-204. https://doi.org/10.1726/3702.36924

Individual-level outcome measures are an important aspect of palliative care. They are tools that can drive high-quality, person-centred care through providing healthcare professionals and services with valuable information about the patients we see... Read More about Using and implementing individual-level outcome measures in palliative care settings: a reflective commentary.

Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study (2021)
Journal Article
Bajwah, S., Koffman, J., Hussain, J., Bradshaw, A., Hocaoglu, M. B., Fraser, L. K., …Murtagh, F. E. M. (2021). Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, bmjspcare-2021-003083. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2021-003083

Objectives: To develop insights into response of palliative care services caring for people from ethnic minority groups during COVID-19. Methods: Cross-sectional online survey of UK palliative care services response to COVID-19. Quantitative data w... Read More about Specialist palliative care services response to ethnic minority groups with COVID-19: equal but inequitable—an observational study.

Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall) (2021)
Journal Article
Walshe, C., Garner, I., Dunleavy, L., Preston, N., Bradshaw, A., Cripps, R. L., …Higginson, I. J. (2022). Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall). International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(10), 2146-2154. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2021.128

Background: Volunteers are common within palliative care services, and provide support that enhances care quality. The support they provided, and any role changes, during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic are unknown. The aim of this s... Read More about Prohibit, Protect, or Adapt? The Changing Role of Volunteers in Palliative and Hospice Care Services During the COVID-19 Pandemic. A Multinational Survey (Covpall).

Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study (2021)
Journal Article
Guo, P., Pinto, C., Edwards, B., Pask, S., Firth, A., O’Brien, S., & Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study. Palliative medicine, 026921632110433. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211043371

Background: Transitions between care settings (hospice, hospital and community) can be challenging for patients and family caregivers and are often an under-researched area of health care, including palliative care. Aim: To explore the experience of... Read More about Experiences of transitioning between settings of care from the perspectives of patients with advanced illness receiving specialist palliative care and their family caregivers: A qualitative interview study.

Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Santarelli, M., Khamis, A. M., Sartain, K., Johnson, M., Boland, J., …Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy. BMJ open, 11(9), Article e051904. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-051904

Introduction Person-centred outcome measures improve quality of care and patient outcomes but are used inconsistently in palliative care practice. To address this implementation gap, we developed the 'RESOLVE Implementation Strategy'. This protocol d... Read More about Implementing person-centred outcome measures (PCOMs) into routine palliative care: A protocol for a mixed-methods process evaluation of the RESOLVE PCOM Implementation Strategy.

Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations (2021)
Journal Article
O’Donnell, S. B., Bone, A. E., Finucane, A. M., McAleese, J., Higginson, I. J., Barclay, S., …Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations. Palliative medicine, 35(10), 1975-1984. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211040981

Background: Understanding patterns of mortality and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic is important to help provide appropriate services and resources. Aims: To analyse patterns of mortality including place of death in the United Kingdom (UK... Read More about Changes in mortality patterns and place of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: A descriptive analysis of mortality data across four nations.

End-stage kidney disease (2021)
Book Chapter
Murtagh, F. (2021). End-stage kidney disease. In N. I. Cherny, M. T. Fallon, S. Kaasa, R. K. Portenoy, & D. C. Currow (Eds.), Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine (1010-1019). (6th ed.). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198821328.003.0095

End-stage kidney disease accounts for 1–2% of all deaths. With ageing of the population, this proportion will grow steadily over the coming years. Symptom burden in end-stage kidney disease exceeds advanced cancer, with added renal-specific symptoms,... Read More about End-stage kidney disease.

Improving caring quality for people with dementia in nursing homes using IPOS-Dem: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial protocol (2021)
Journal Article
Spichiger, F., Koppitz, A. L., De Wolf-Linder, S., Murtagh, F. E., Volken, T., & Larkin, P. (in press). Improving caring quality for people with dementia in nursing homes using IPOS-Dem: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial protocol. Journal of advanced nursing, https://doi.org/10.1111/jan.14953

Aims: We aim to evaluate the effectiveness of the Integrated Palliative Care Outcome Scale for people with dementia-based case studies to improve the caring quality for people with dementia in nursing homes by frontline staff and family members. Back... Read More about Improving caring quality for people with dementia in nursing homes using IPOS-Dem: A stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial protocol.

Health professionals’ perceptions of palliative care for end-stage cardiac and respiratory conditions: a qualitative interview study (2021)
Journal Article
Fairlamb, H. J., & Murtagh, F. E. (2021). Health professionals’ perceptions of palliative care for end-stage cardiac and respiratory conditions: a qualitative interview study. BMC Palliative Care, 20(1), Article 103. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00805-3

Background: End-stage cardiac and respiratory diseases are common in the UK. People with these end-stage conditions experience similar, or even worse, symptomatic suffering to cancer patients but are less likely to receive specialist palliative care... Read More about Health professionals’ perceptions of palliative care for end-stage cardiac and respiratory conditions: a qualitative interview study.

Virtual models of care for people with palliative care needs living in their own home: A systematic meta-review and narrative synthesis (2021)
Journal Article
Disalvo, D., Agar, M., Caplan, G., Murtagh, F. E., Luckett, T., Heneka, N., …Phillips, J. (in press). Virtual models of care for people with palliative care needs living in their own home: A systematic meta-review and narrative synthesis. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211024451

Background: Access to palliative care in the community enables people to live in their preferred place of care, which is often home. Community palliative care services struggle to provide timely 24-h services to patients and family. This has resulted... Read More about Virtual models of care for people with palliative care needs living in their own home: A systematic meta-review and narrative synthesis.

Understanding and addressing challenges for advance care planning in the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the UK CovPall survey data from specialist palliative care services (2021)
Journal Article
Bradshaw, A., Dunleavy, L., Walshe, C., Preston, N., Cripps, R. L., Hocaoglu, M., …Murtagh, F. (2021). Understanding and addressing challenges for advance care planning in the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the UK CovPall survey data from specialist palliative care services. Palliative medicine, 35(7), 1225-1237. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163211017387

Background: Specialist palliative care services play an important role in conducting advance care planning during COVID-19. Little is known about the challenges to advance care planning in this context, or the changes services made to adapt. Aim: Des... Read More about Understanding and addressing challenges for advance care planning in the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of the UK CovPall survey data from specialist palliative care services.