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Sage Palliative Medicine & Chronic Care

Jan 27, 2017

In this episode Dr Alastair Canaway (Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick) presents the findings of  study which aimed to develop an outcome measure suitable for use in economic evaluation that captures the benefits of end-of-life care to those close to the dying. Full paper from: 


Jan 27, 2017

In this episode Yolanda Penders (End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium) presents a study which aimed to investigate the self-reported out-of-pocket costs associated with healthcare in the last year of life of older adults in Europe....


Jan 26, 2017

In this episode  Camilla Zimmermann (University of Toronto) presents the findings of qualitative study which aimed to determine, from a participant perspective, the experience of receiving early palliative care and elements of that care. Full paper from: 


Jan 24, 2017

In this episode Professor Myra Bluebond-Langner (Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care) discusses the challenges faced by researchers aiming to recruit children and young people (CYP) with life-limiting conditions (LLCs) or life-threatening illnesses (LTIs) to research studies. For the full paper: 


Jan 24, 2017

In this episode Dr Richard Harding (Kings College London) presents a study of drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis. Specifically the study aimed to (1) identify most burdensome problems, (2) compare intensity of problems for drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis and (3) identify predictors of...