Category Archives: EAPC-LINKED JOURNALS

How to find and promote brilliant palliative care

Posted on January 21, 2019 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM PALLIATIVE MEDICINE … Dr Aileen Collier PhD, School of Nursing, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, and Associate Professor Ann Dadich, Human Resources and Management, Western Sydney University School of … Continue reading →

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The strengths of Sentinel GP practices in the era of Big Data: Measuring quality indicators for primary palliative care delivered to people with cancer and organ failure

Posted on January 14, 2019 by

EDITOR’S CHOICE POST . . . Lieve Van den Block, MSc, PhD, Professor of Aging and Palliative Care Research, VUB-UGhent End-of-Life Care Research Group, Department of Family Medicine and Chronic Care, Department of Clinical Sciences, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Belgium, … Continue reading →

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Paediatric Palliative Care Research Comes of Age: Call for papers for special issue of Paediatric Palliative Care

Posted on January 9, 2019 by

Guest Editors of the special issue of Paediatric Palliative Care, Professor Joanne Wolfe and Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner, invite contributions to this special issue of Palliative Medicine. Palliative Medicine’s call for papers for a special issue in Paediatric Palliative Care is a unique opportunity … Continue reading →

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Encouraging clinically and research relevant case reports and clinical reviews: Launching Palliative Medicine’s new author instructions and types of submission

Posted on December 10, 2018 by

Sandra Martins Pereira and Sarah Yardley, Screening Editors, and Catherine Walshe, Editor-in-Chief, of Palliative Medicine, unveil the new author instructions and explain how to make your submissions focused and relevant. Do case reports in palliative care still matter? The short, unanimous answer during … Continue reading →

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How do expatriate health workers cope with needs to provide palliative care in humanitarian emergency assistance? 

Posted on December 3, 2018 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM PALLIATIVE MEDICINE. . . Martin Schneider, physician and humanitarian worker, Geneva, Switzerland, explains the background to his longer article selected as ‘Editor’s Choice’ in the December 2018 issue of Palliative Medicine. When I worked as … Continue reading →

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More than meets the eye: How design can help people at end of life

Posted on October 15, 2018 by

Ivor Williams, Senior Design Associate at Helix Centre, a healthcare innovation lab within St Mary’s Hospital, London, UK, explains the background to his longer article published in the May/June issue of the European Journal of Palliative Care. Design might not … Continue reading →

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Hungry, homeless and heading for heaven: Exploring end-of-life preferences of homeless people in the UK

Posted on October 10, 2018 by

CELEBRATING WORLD DAY OF HOMELESSNESS, 10 OCTOBER 2018 –  we’re republishing this post by Wendy Ann Webb, first published as a blog post on 2 May 2018 relating to her longer journal article. And you can download the full article … Continue reading →

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