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Professor Fliss Murtagh's Outputs (160)

A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study (2025)
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Namisango, E., Murtagh, F. E., Bristowe, K., Downing, J., Powell, R. A., Atieno, M., Sandham, M., Ali, Z., Meiring, M., Mwangi-Powell, F. N., Abbas, M., Fraser, L. K., Higginson, I. J., & Harding, R. (2025). A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study. Health and quality of life outcomes, 23, Article 41. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-025-02346-2

Background: Outcome measurement is pivotal to person-centred assessment, quality improvement and research. Children and young people with life-limiting and -threatening illness have high needs and service use, yet there is a lack of evidence for inte... Read More about A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study.

Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis (2025)
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Bullock, A., Newton-Clarke, A., Johnson, M. J., Murtagh, F. E., & Nwulu, U. (2025). Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis. PLoS ONE, 20(4), Article e0321313. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0321313

Objectives: Unintentional weight loss in older adults is common, with 15-20% of those aged >65 having clinically significant weight loss, associated with increased mortality and morbidity. People with socioeconomic disadvantage are more likely to be... Read More about Socioeconomic status and older adult’s experiences of weight loss: a qualitative secondary analysis.

Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data (2025)
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Davies, J. M., Chua, K. C., Maddocks, M., Murtagh, F. E., & Sleeman, K. E. (2025). Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data. SSM - Population Health, 30, Article 101784. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2025.101784

Background: Where people die depends on many factors and is important to the quality of end-of-life care. Many people prefer to avoid end-of-life hospital admissions and yet hospital remains the most common place of death across high-income countries... Read More about Social determinants of where people die: A study of moderators and mediators using linked UK Census and mortality data.

Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of providing end-of-life care for infants, children and young people in acute settings: A multi-site qualitative study (2025)
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McLorie, E. V., Hackett, J., Barrett, L., Peat, G., Weatherly, H., Hinde, S., Walker, G., Noyes, J., Oddie, S., Vasudevan, C., Feltbower, R. G., Phillips, B., Hewitt, C., Hain, R., Subramanian, G., Haynes, A., Papworth, A., Fraser, L. K., & Murtagh, F. E. (2025). Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of providing end-of-life care for infants, children and young people in acute settings: A multi-site qualitative study. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163251320204

Background: Paediatric end-of-life care is an important part of palliative care, and provides care and support for children in the last days, weeks, months or year of life. However, there is currently a picture of inconsistent and disjointed provisio... Read More about Healthcare professionals’ perspectives of providing end-of-life care for infants, children and young people in acute settings: A multi-site qualitative study.

Correspondence on “Implementing palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and mapping of knowledge to the implementation research logic model” Authors’ reply (2025)
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Meddick-Dyson, S. A., Pattison, N. A., Boland, J. W., Pearson, M., & Murtagh, F. E. (2025). Correspondence on “Implementing palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and mapping of knowledge to the implementation research logic model” Authors’ reply. Intensive care medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-025-07849-6

Community out-of-hours palliative care – ‘It’s a patchwork of services’: A qualitative study exploring care provision (2024)
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Firth, A. M., Goodrich, J., Gaczkowska, I., Harding, R., Murtagh, F. E., & Evans, C. J. (in press). Community out-of-hours palliative care – ‘It’s a patchwork of services’: A qualitative study exploring care provision. Palliative medicine, https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241302671

Background: People in receipt of community palliative care usually receive care from a range of services and require access to care 24/7. However, care outside of normal working hours varies, with little understanding of which models of care are opti... Read More about Community out-of-hours palliative care – ‘It’s a patchwork of services’: A qualitative study exploring care provision.

Empowering informal caregivers and nurses to take a person-centred view: adaptation and clinical utility of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS-Dem) for use in acute and community care settings (2024)
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de Wolf-Linder, S., Kramer, I., Reisinger, M., Murtagh, F. E., Schubert, M., & Ramsenthaler, C. (2024). Empowering informal caregivers and nurses to take a person-centred view: adaptation and clinical utility of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS-Dem) for use in acute and community care settings. BMC Geriatrics, 24(1), Article 1030. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-024-05608-8

Background: Dementia is a progressive and terminal illness. Symptoms are present for people with dementia across all stages, leading to poor quality of life and considerable carer burden. In acute and community care services, no holistic, person-cent... Read More about Empowering informal caregivers and nurses to take a person-centred view: adaptation and clinical utility of the Integrated Palliative Outcome Scale (IPOS-Dem) for use in acute and community care settings.

End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey (2024)
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Bedendo, A., Papworth, A., Beresford, B., Phillips, B., Vasudevan, C., Walker, G. L., Weatherly, H., Feltbower, R., Hinde, S., Hewitt, C. E., Murtagh, F., Noyes, J., Hackett, J., Hain, R., Oddie, S., Subramanian, G., Haynes, A., & Fraser, L. (online). End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, Article spcare-2023-004673. https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2023-004673

Objectives To describe end of life care in settings where, in the UK, most children die; to explore commonalities and differences within and between settings; and to test whether there are distinct, alternative models of end of life care. Methods An... Read More about End of life care in paediatric settings: UK national survey.

Communicating treatment options to older patients with advanced kidney disease: a conversation analysis study (2024)
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Selman, L. E., Shaw, C. B., Sowden, R., Murtagh, F. E., Tulsky, J. A., Parry, R., Caskey, F. J., & Barnes, R. K. (2024). Communicating treatment options to older patients with advanced kidney disease: a conversation analysis study. BMC Nephrology, 25(1), Article 417. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12882-024-03855-w

Background: Choosing to have dialysis or conservative kidney management is often challenging for older people with advanced kidney disease. While we know that clinical communication has a major impact on patients’ treatment decision-making, little is... Read More about Communicating treatment options to older patients with advanced kidney disease: a conversation analysis study.

Preparing for responsive management versus preparing for renal dialysis in multimorbid older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (Prepare for Kidney Care): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. (2024)
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Worthington, J., Soundy, A., Frost, J., Rooshenas, L., MacNeill, S. J., Realpe Rojas, A., Garfield, K., Liu, Y., Alloway, K., Ben-Shlomo, Y., Burns, A., Chilcot, J., Darling, J., Davies, S., Farrington, K., Gibson, A., Husbands, S., Huxtable, R., McNally, H., Murphy, E., …Caskey, F. J. (2024). Preparing for responsive management versus preparing for renal dialysis in multimorbid older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (Prepare for Kidney Care): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial. Trials, 25(1), Article 688. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-024-08509-8

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) prevalence is steadily increasing, in part due to increased multimorbidity in our aging global population. When progression to kidney failure cannot be avoided, people need unbiased information to inform decis... Read More about Preparing for responsive management versus preparing for renal dialysis in multimorbid older people with advanced chronic kidney disease (Prepare for Kidney Care): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial..

Implementing palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and mapping of knowledge to the implementation research logic model (2024)
Journal Article
Meddick‐Dyson, S. A., Boland, J. W., Pearson, M., Greenley, S., Gambe, R., Budding, J. R., & Murtagh, F. E. (online). Implementing palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and mapping of knowledge to the implementation research logic model. Intensive care medicine, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-024-07623-0

Purpose: The importance and effectiveness of palliative care (PC) in intensive care units (ICU) are known. Less is known about the implementation and integration of ICU-based PC interventions. This systematic review aims to use a modified implementat... Read More about Implementing palliative care in the intensive care unit: a systematic review and mapping of knowledge to the implementation research logic model.

Better End of Life 2024. Time to care: Findings from a nationally representative survey of experiences at the end of life in England and Wales (2024)
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Johansson, T., Pask, S., Goodrich, J., Budd, L., Okamoto, I., Kumar, R., Laidlaw, L., Ghiglieri, C., Woodhead, A., Chambers, R. L., Davies, J., Bone, A. E., Higginson, I. J., Barclay, S., Murtagh, F. E. M., & Sleeman, K. E. (2024). Better End of Life 2024. Time to care: Findings from a nationally representative survey of experiences at the end of life in England and Wales. Marie Curie

Foreword
This is a critical time for action to improve palliative and end of life care.

The findings from this nationally representative survey in England and Wales demonstrate the extent to which people are dying without access to the services... Read More about Better End of Life 2024. Time to care: Findings from a nationally representative survey of experiences at the end of life in England and Wales.

Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review (2024)
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Coverdale, M. R., & Murtagh, F. (2024). Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14(e3), e2411-e2422. https://doi.org/10.1136/spcare-2024-004883

Background Homeless adults experience a significant symptom burden when living with a life-limiting illness and nearing the end of life. This increases the inequalities that homeless adults face while coping with a loss of rootedness in the world. Th... Read More about Destitute and dying: interventions and models of palliative and end of life care for homeless adults – a systematic review.

Benefits of specialist palliative care by identifying active ingredients of service composition, structure, and delivery model: A systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression (2024)
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Johnson, M. J., Rutterford, L., Sunny, A., Pask, S., de Wolf-Linder, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Ramsenthaler, C. (2024). Benefits of specialist palliative care by identifying active ingredients of service composition, structure, and delivery model: A systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression. PLoS Medicine, 21(8), Article e1004436. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004436

Background AU Specialist: Pleaseconfirmthatallheadinglevelsarerepresentedcorrectly palliative care (SPC) services address the needs :of people with advanced illness. Meta-analyses to date have been challenged by heterogeneity in SPC service models an... Read More about Benefits of specialist palliative care by identifying active ingredients of service composition, structure, and delivery model: A systematic review with meta-analysis and meta-regression.

Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design (2024)
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Winterbottom, A., Hurst, H., Murtagh, F. E., Bekker, H. L., Ormandy, P., Hole, B., Russon, L., Murphy, E., Bucknall, K., & Mooney, A. (2024). Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design. Kidney Medicine, 6(9), Article 100874. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.xkme.2024.100874

Rationale & Objective: Planning and delivering treatment pathways that integrate end-of-life care, frailty assessment, and enhanced supportive care is a service priority. Despite this, people with kidney failure are less likely to have an advance car... Read More about Development of a Resource for Health Professionals to Raise Advance Care Planning Topics During Kidney Care Consultations: A Multiple User-Centered Design.

Association between ethnicity and emergency department visits in the last three months of life in England: a retrospective population-based study using electronic health records (2024)
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Davies, J. M., Leniz, J., Chua, K.-C., Williamson, L. E., Bajwah, S., Bolton, T., Bone, A. E., Hocaoglu, M., Verne, J., Fraser, L. K., Barclay, S., Murtagh, F. E. M., Higginson, I. J., & Sleeman, K. E. (2024). Association between ethnicity and emergency department visits in the last three months of life in England: a retrospective population-based study using electronic health records. BMJ Public Health, 2(2), Article e001121. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjph-2024-001121

Introduction Emergency department (ED) visits are distressing yet common in the last months of life and many could be avoided. The association between ethnicity and ED visits in the last months of life has rarely been studied in detail and the inters... Read More about Association between ethnicity and emergency department visits in the last three months of life in England: a retrospective population-based study using electronic health records.

Understanding and addressing symptoms for those with kidney failure managed conservatively, without dialysis: considerations and models of care (2024)
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Murphy, E., & Murtagh, F. E. M. (2024). Understanding and addressing symptoms for those with kidney failure managed conservatively, without dialysis: considerations and models of care. Annals of palliative medicine, 13(4), 991-1001. https://doi.org/10.21037/apm-23-422

For those who have kidney failure and are managed conservatively without dialysis, symptoms are often prevalent, multiple, and troublesome. They interfere with quality of life, reduce wellbeing, and can affect family carers too. Symptoms can sometime... Read More about Understanding and addressing symptoms for those with kidney failure managed conservatively, without dialysis: considerations and models of care.

Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer (2024)
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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.

What are the anticipated benefits, risks, barriers and facilitators to implementing person-centred outcome measures into routine care for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions? A qualitative interview study with key stakeholders (2024)
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May Scott, H. M., Coombes, L., Braybrook, D., Harðardóttir, D., Roach, A., Bristowe, K., Bluebond-Langner, M., Fraser, L. K., Downing, J., Farsides, B., Murtagh, F. E., Ellis-Smith, C., Harding, R., & On Behalf Of C-POS. (2024). What are the anticipated benefits, risks, barriers and facilitators to implementing person-centred outcome measures into routine care for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions? A qualitative interview study with key stakeholders. Palliative medicine, 38(4), 471-484. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163241234797

Background: There is a growing evidence-base underpinning implementation of person-centred outcome measures into adult palliative care. However evidence on how best to achieve this with children facing life-threatening and life-limiting conditions is... Read More about What are the anticipated benefits, risks, barriers and facilitators to implementing person-centred outcome measures into routine care for children and young people with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions? A qualitative interview study with key stakeholders.