Jul 17, 2018
This episode features Matthew Allsop (St Gemma’s Academic
Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences,
University of Leeds, Leeds, UK). This retrospective cohort
study aimed to identify patient and organisational factors
that influence the duration of hospice-based palliative care in the
United Kingdom prior to death.
The results of this study found that despite increasing rhetoric
around early referral, patients with advanced disease are receiving
referrals to hospice specialist palliative care very late in
their illness trajectory. Age and diagnosis persist as determinants
of duration of hospice specialist palliative care before death.
Full paper available from: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269216318781417
If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or
accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara
Nwosu: anwosu@liverpool.ac.uk