NIHR Senior Investigator Award 2019

Communicating treatment options to older patients with advanced kidney disease: a conversation analysis study (2024)
Journal Article
Selman, L. E., Shaw, C. B., Sowden, R., Murtagh, F. E. M., 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.

Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: Additional analysis of systematic review evidence using narrative synthesis (2024)
Journal Article
Goodrich, J., Watson, C., Gaczkowska, I., Harding, R., Evans, C., Firth, A., & Murtagh, F. E. (2024). Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: Additional analysis of systematic review evidence using narrative synthesis. PLoS ONE, 19(2 FEBRUARY), Article e0296405. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0296405

Background Community-based out-of-hours services are an integral component of end-of-life care. However, there is little understanding of how patients and families utilise these services. This additional analysis of a systematic review aims to unders... Read More about Understanding patient and family utilisation of community-based palliative care services out-of-hours: Additional analysis of systematic review evidence using narrative synthesis.

Advance care planning for patients with end-stage kidney disease on dialysis: narrative review of the current evidence, and future considerations (2024)
Journal Article
Adenwalla, S. F., O’Halloran, P., Faull, C., Murtagh, F. E., & Graham-Brown, M. P. (2024). Advance care planning for patients with end-stage kidney disease on dialysis: narrative review of the current evidence, and future considerations. Journal of Nephrology, 37(3), 547-560. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40620-023-01841-3

Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) have a high symptom-burden and high rates of morbidity and mortality. Despite this, evidence has shown that this patient group does not have timely discussions to plan for deterioration and death, and at... Read More about Advance care planning for patients with end-stage kidney disease on dialysis: narrative review of the current evidence, and future considerations.

The roles and experiences of informal carers providing care to people with advanced cancer in Africa—A systematic review and critical interpretive analysis (2023)
Journal Article
Gambe, R. G., Clark, J., Meddick-Dyson, S. A., Ukoha-Kalu, B. O., Nyaaba, G. N., & Murtagh, F. E. (2023). The roles and experiences of informal carers providing care to people with advanced cancer in Africa—A systematic review and critical interpretive analysis. PLOS Global Public Health, 3(4), Article e0001785. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgph.0001785

There is an increasing prevalence of cancer in Africa with approximately 80% of cancers diagnosed at an advanced stage. High out-of-pocket healthcare costs and overstretched health systems lead to heavy reliance on informal carers for cancer care. Th... Read More about The roles and experiences of informal carers providing care to people with advanced cancer in Africa—A systematic review and critical interpretive analysis.