Professor Fliss Murtagh's Outputs (7)

Palliative care – what’s the evidence? (2025)
Journal Article
Pask, S., Murtagh, F. E., & Boland, J. W. (2025). Palliative care – what’s the evidence?. Clinical Medicine, 25(4), Article 100320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinme.2025.100320

Palliative care is essential for people with an advanced life-limiting illness. Most palliative care is delivered by healthcare professionals who do not specialise in palliative care (‘non-specialists’). Multidisciplinary specialist palliative care s... Read More about Palliative care – what’s the evidence?.

What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents (2025)
Journal Article
Braybrook, D., Coombes, L., Scott, H. M., Harðardóttir, D., Roach, A., Bariuan, J., Ellis-Smith, C., Downing, J., Murtagh, F. E. M., Bluebond-Langner, M., Fraser, L. K., Harding, R., & Bristowe, K. (2025). What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents. Patient, https://doi.org/10.1007/s40271-025-00744-8

Background
Globally, over 21 million children need palliative care each year. Although guidelines exist to support paediatric palliative care delivery, they are not informed by the experiences of children themselves.

Objective
We aimed to determ... Read More about What Constitutes High-Quality Paediatric Palliative Care? A Qualitative Exploration of the Perspectives of Children, Young People, and Parents.

A novel child-centred core palliative care outcome measure for use in clinical practice and research: findings from a multinational validation study (2025)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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)
Journal Article
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