The aim of end of life care should be to help people to live as well as possible until they die and to help people to die with dignity.
Our recent work and content on this topic is listed below.
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Episode 25. To many, death and dying have no value and are relegated to the margins of our lives. What could be an enriching and meaningful phase of life can become over-medicalised, transactional and...
This project will involve the development of a web app to facilitate relational and proactive care by directing patients and their caregivers to the information they need at the right time.
Approximately thirty thousand people in Scotland are diagnosed with cancer annually. The study's aim was to describe the timing and nature of hospital-based healthcare use and associated costs in the ...
Developing conversation training in holding discussions to support end of life care.
Developing computer aided risks scores for predicting in-hospital mortality.
A review of studies using direct observation of clinical practice.
Observational study of pain scale use in five video-recorded palliative care consultations.
A retrospective primary care and hospital analysis.
An observational study using conversation analysis.
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