Category Archives: RESEARCH

Winning posters from Berlin: Dentists and palliative care clinicians unite on award-winning poster on oral health

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

CONTINUING OUR BERLIN POSTERS SERIES … Poster presentations are an essential cornerstone of every EAPC Congress – this year at the 16th EAPC World Congress in Berlin more than 1,100 posters were on display representing the scientific rigour and commitment of … Continue reading →

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Winning posters from Berlin: In case of life-limiting illness: What is the most important for the public in Norway?

Posted on September 23, 2019 by

NEW ON THE BLOG: START OF THE BERLIN POSTER SERIES… Poster presentations are an essential cornerstone of every EAPC Congress – this year at the 16th EAPC World Congressin Berlin more than 1,100 posters were on display representing the scientific … Continue reading →

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Standing on the shoulders of giants – a brief, patient- and proxy-reported outcome measure in advanced illness

Posted on September 2, 2019 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM ‘PALLIATIVE MEDICINE’… Fliss Murtagh is Professor of Palliative Care and Associate Director of the Wolfson Palliative Care Research Centre, and Academic Training Programme Director – North & East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, UK. Here, she explains the … Continue reading →

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Understanding complexity in palliative care

Posted on August 12, 2019 by

CATCH UP WITH SOME OF OUR ‘PAST POSTS’. TODAY, WE’RE DELIGHTED TO REPUBLISH ANOTHER FAVOURITE POST WHICH WAS SELECTED AS  ‘EDITOR’S CHOICE’ FROM THE JUNE 2018 ISSUE OF  ‘PALLIATIVE MEDICINE’. AND THERE’S A FREE COPY OF THE FULL-TEXT ARTICLE TO … Continue reading →

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‘Palliative Medicine’ impact factor increases to 4.956

Posted on July 29, 2019 by

People are citing research papers in ‘Palliative Medicine’ more than ever before. Editor-in-Chief, Professor Catherine Walshe, puts it down to the great research submitted and the teamwork of editors, reviewers and publishers. Palliative Medicine, the research journal of the European … Continue reading →

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Pilot testing the first version of the EAPC basic dataset

Posted on July 24, 2019 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM PALLIATIVE MEDICINE … A lack of common criteria to describe a palliative care cancer population in studies has led to the development of the first version of the European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC) basic … Continue reading →

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‘So isolation comes in, discrimination and you find many people dying quietly without any family support’: Accessing palliative care for key populations

Posted on June 24, 2019 by

THIS MONTH’S EDITOR’S CHOICE FROM PALLIATIVE MEDICINE … Jenny Hunt, Katherine Bristowe, Sybille Chidyamatare and Richard Harding explain the background to their longer article published in the June issue of ‘Palliative Medicine’. We were delighted with the selection of our publication as ‘Editor’s … Continue reading →

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