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Improving the quality of life of people with advanced respiratory disease and severe breathlessness (2019)
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Booth, S., & Johnson, M. J. (2019). Improving the quality of life of people with advanced respiratory disease and severe breathlessness. Breathe, 15(3), 198-215. https://doi.org/10.1183/20734735.0200-2019

Advanced respiratory disease imposes a greater symptom burden than many cancers but not does have comparable recognition of the need for supportive and palliative care or the infrastructure for its systematic delivery. Consequently, many people with... Read More about Improving the quality of life of people with advanced respiratory disease and severe breathlessness.

Palliative care for people living with heart failure: European Association for Palliative Care Task Force expert position statement (2019)
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Sobanski, P. Z., Alt-Epping, B., Currow, D. C., Goodlin, S. J., Grodzicki, T., Hogg, K., …Larkin, P. J. (2020). Palliative care for people living with heart failure: European Association for Palliative Care Task Force expert position statement. Cardiovascular research, 116(1), 12-27. https://doi.org/10.1093/cvr/cvz200

© 2019 Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. Contrary to common perception, modern palliative care (PC) is applicable to all people with an incurable disease, not only cancer. PC is appropriate at every stage... Read More about Palliative care for people living with heart failure: European Association for Palliative Care Task Force expert position statement.

Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study (2019)
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Buture, A., Boland, J. W., Ahmed, F., & Dikomitis, L. (2019). Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study. Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 12, 691-698. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S207128

Introduction and objective: The diagnosis of primary headaches is based on the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-3). Cluster headache (CH), a debilitating primary headache, is often misdiagnosed as migraine. In the absence of b... Read More about Images depicting headache pain – a tool to aid the diagnosis of cluster headache: a pilot study.

Managing uncertain recovery for patients nearing the end of life in hospital: a mixed-methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of the AMBER care bundle (2019)
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Koffman, J., Yorganci, E., Yi, D., Gao, W., Murtagh, F., Pickles, A., …Evans, C. J. (2019). Managing uncertain recovery for patients nearing the end of life in hospital: a mixed-methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of the AMBER care bundle. Trials, 20(1), Article 506. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-019-3612-0

Background The AMBER (Assessment, Management, Best Practice, Engagement, Recovery Uncertain) care bundle is a complex intervention used in UK hospitals to support patients with uncertain recovery. However, it has yet to be evaluated in a randomised... Read More about Managing uncertain recovery for patients nearing the end of life in hospital: a mixed-methods feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial of the AMBER care bundle.

Oral modified release morphine for breathlessness in chronic heart failure: a randomized placebo-controlled trial (2019)
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Johnson, M. J., Cockayne, S., Currow, D. C., Bell, K., Hicks, K., Fairhurst, C., …Clark, A. (2019). Oral modified release morphine for breathlessness in chronic heart failure: a randomized placebo-controlled trial. ESC Heart Failure, 6(6), 1149-1160. https://doi.org/10.1002/ehf2.12498

© 2019 The Authors. ESC Heart Failure published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. Aims: Morphine is shown to relieve chronic breathlessness in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. There are no definitive da... Read More about Oral modified release morphine for breathlessness in chronic heart failure: a randomized placebo-controlled trial.

The relationship between anthropometric measures and cardiometabolic health in shift work: findings from the Atlantic PATH Cohort Study (2019)
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Sweeney, E., Yu, Z. M., Dummer, T. J. B., Cui, Y., DeClercq, V., Forbes, C., …Adisesh, A. (2020). The relationship between anthropometric measures and cardiometabolic health in shift work: findings from the Atlantic PATH Cohort Study. International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, 93(1), 67-76. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00420-019-01459-8

Purpose: To evaluate the relationship between anthropometric measures and cardiometabolic health in shift workers compared to non-shift workers. Methods: A population health study was conducted with 4155 shift workers and 8258 non-shift workers from... Read More about The relationship between anthropometric measures and cardiometabolic health in shift work: findings from the Atlantic PATH Cohort Study.

Multi-disciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: A systematic review and narrative synthesis (2019)
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Datla, S., Verberkt, C. A., Hoye, A., Janssen, D. J. A., & Johnson, M. J. (2019). Multi-disciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: A systematic review and narrative synthesis. Palliative medicine, 33(8), 1003-1016. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319859148

Background: Despite recommendations, people with heart failure have poor access to palliative care. Aim: To identify the evidence in relation to palliative care for people with symptomatic heart failure. Design: Systematic review and narrative synthe... Read More about Multi-disciplinary palliative care is effective in people with symptomatic heart failure: A systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Optimised clinical study recruitment in palliative care: success strategies and lessons learned (2019)
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White, C., Noble, S., Watson, M., Swan, F., Nelson, A., & Johnson, M. J. (2020). Optimised clinical study recruitment in palliative care: success strategies and lessons learned. BMJ supportive & palliative care, 10(2), 216-220. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001820

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2020. Recruitment challenges to clinical research studies in palliative care settings, particularly in hospices, are well documented. However, a recent study (Hospice Inpatient Deep vein thrombosis Detection (HIDDen... Read More about Optimised clinical study recruitment in palliative care: success strategies and lessons learned.

Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Scale and physical activity in COPD and lung cancer: an exploratory pooled data analysis (2019)
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Barbetta, C., Allgar, V., Maddocks, M., Ribeiro, C., Wilcock, A., Currow, D. C., …Johnson, M. J. (in press). Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Scale and physical activity in COPD and lung cancer: an exploratory pooled data analysis. BMJ supportive & palliative care, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjspcare-2019-001869

Objectives: Patient-relevant measures of functional status are required in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and lung cancer in clinical practice and research. We explored the relationship between the Australia-modified Karnofsky Performan... Read More about Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Scale and physical activity in COPD and lung cancer: an exploratory pooled data analysis.

Establishing key criteria to define and compare models of specialist palliative care: a mixed-methods study using qualitative interviews and Delphi survey (2019)
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Firth, A. M., O’Brien, S. M., Guo, P., Seymour, J., Richardson, H., Bridges, C., …Murtagh, F. E. (2019). Establishing key criteria to define and compare models of specialist palliative care: a mixed-methods study using qualitative interviews and Delphi survey. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319858237

Background: Specialist palliative care services have various configurations of staff, processes and interventions, which determine how care is delivered. Currently, there is no consistent way to define and distinguish these different models of care.... Read More about Establishing key criteria to define and compare models of specialist palliative care: a mixed-methods study using qualitative interviews and Delphi survey.

Inclusion, characteristics and outcomes of people requiring palliative care in studies of non-pharmacological interventions for delirium: A systematic review (2019)
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Hosie, A., Siddiqi, N., Featherstone, I., Johnson, M., Lawlor, P. G., Bush, S. H., …Agar, M. (2019). Inclusion, characteristics and outcomes of people requiring palliative care in studies of non-pharmacological interventions for delirium: A systematic review. Palliative medicine, 33(8), 878-899. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319853487

© The Author(s) 2019. Background: Delirium is common, distressing, serious and under-researched in specialist palliative care settings. Objectives: To examine whether people requiring palliative care were included in non-pharmacological delirium inte... Read More about Inclusion, characteristics and outcomes of people requiring palliative care in studies of non-pharmacological interventions for delirium: A systematic review.

Clustering of 27,525,663 death records from the United States based on health conditions associated with death: an example of big health data exploration (2019)
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Janssen, D. J., Rechberger, S., Wouters, E. F., Schols, J. M., Johnson, M. J., Currow, D. C., …Spruit, M. A. (2019). Clustering of 27,525,663 death records from the United States based on health conditions associated with death: an example of big health data exploration. Journal of Clinical Medicine, 8(7), Article 922. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm8070922

Background: Insight into health conditions associated with death can inform healthcare policy. We aimed to cluster 27,525,663 deceased people based on the health conditions associated with death to study the associations between the health condition... Read More about Clustering of 27,525,663 death records from the United States based on health conditions associated with death: an example of big health data exploration.

A brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness: Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS) (2019)
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Murtagh, F. E., Ramsenthaler, C., Firth, A., Groeneveld, E. I., Lovell, N., Simon, S. T., …Bausewein, C. (in press). A brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness: Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS). Palliative medicine, 026921631985426. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319854264

Background: Few measures capture the complex symptoms and concerns of those receiving palliative care. Aim: To validate the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale, a measure underpinned by extensive psychometric development, by evaluating its vali... Read More about A brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness: Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the Integrated Palliative care Outcome Scale (IPOS).

Which outcome domains are important in palliative care and when? An international expert consensus workshop, using the nominal group technique (2019)
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de Wolf-Linder, S., Dawkins, M., Wicks, F., Pask, S., Eagar, K., Evans, C. J., …Murtagh, F. E. (in press). Which outcome domains are important in palliative care and when? An international expert consensus workshop, using the nominal group technique. Palliative medicine, 026921631985415. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216319854154

© The Author(s) 2019. Background: When capturing patient-level outcomes in palliative care, it is essential to identify which outcome domains are most important and focus efforts to capture these, in order to improve quality of care and minimise coll... Read More about Which outcome domains are important in palliative care and when? An international expert consensus workshop, using the nominal group technique.

Towards person‐centred care for people living with HIV: what core outcomes matter, and how might we assess them? A cross‐national multi‐centre qualitative study with key stakeholders (2019)
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Bristowe, K., Clift, P., James, R., Josh, J., Platt, M., Whetham, J., …Harding, R. (2019). Towards person‐centred care for people living with HIV: what core outcomes matter, and how might we assess them? A cross‐national multi‐centre qualitative study with key stakeholders. HIV Medicine, 20(8), 542-554. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.12758

Objectives People living with HIV (PLWH) have multidimensional concerns requiring person‐centred care. Routine use of patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) improves outcomes. No brief PROM currently reflects the breadth of concerns for PLWH. This... Read More about Towards person‐centred care for people living with HIV: what core outcomes matter, and how might we assess them? A cross‐national multi‐centre qualitative study with key stakeholders.

Timely recognition of palliative care needs of patients with advanced chronic heart failure: a pilot study of a Dutch translation of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF) (2019)
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Janssen, D. J., Boyne, J., Currow, D. C., Schols, J. M., Johnson, M. J., & La Rocca, H. P. (2019). Timely recognition of palliative care needs of patients with advanced chronic heart failure: a pilot study of a Dutch translation of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF). European journal of cardiovascular nursing : journal of the Working Group on Cardiovascular Nursing of the European Society of Cardiology, 18(5), 375-388. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474515119831510

© The European Society of Cardiology 2019. Background: The Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF) was developed to identify and triage palliative care needs in patients with chronic heart failure. A Dutch version is cu... Read More about Timely recognition of palliative care needs of patients with advanced chronic heart failure: a pilot study of a Dutch translation of the Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease – Heart Failure (NAT:PD-HF).

Health-related quality of life and well-being in people over 75 years of age with end-stage kidney disease managed with dialysis or comprehensive conservative care: A cross-sectional study in the UK and Australia (2019)
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Shah, K. K., Murtagh, F. E., McGeechan, K., Crail, S., Burns, A., Tran, A. D., & Morton, R. L. (2019). Health-related quality of life and well-being in people over 75 years of age with end-stage kidney disease managed with dialysis or comprehensive conservative care: A cross-sectional study in the UK and Australia. BMJ open, 9(5), Article e027776. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2018-027776

© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. Objective To measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and well-being in older people with end-stage ki... Read More about Health-related quality of life and well-being in people over 75 years of age with end-stage kidney disease managed with dialysis or comprehensive conservative care: A cross-sectional study in the UK and Australia.