PLoS One. 2015 Mar 10;10(3):e0118971. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118971. eCollection 2015. How could hospitalisations at the end of life have been avoided? A qualitative retrospective study of the perspectives of general practitioners, nurses and family carers De Korte-Verhoef MC, Pasman HR, Schweitzer BP, Francke AL, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Deliens L. This interview based study explored how hospitalisation at […]
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Twittergate, or what to consider at academic conferences when using social media
by Dr Mark Taubert @DrMarkTaubert Social media use at conferences has become so commonplace that it is not at all unusual for a presenter to be faced with an audience peering down at laptops/tablets/smartphones (academic spectacles reflecting myriad shimmers of blue LED light to the front). Sometimes flashlights, bright screens and tablets (held up in the […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety alerts Patient Safety Alert for Fluid/Food Thickening Powder NHS England has issued a patient safety alert (NHS/PSA/W/2015/002) warning of the risk of death from asphyxiation by accidental ingestion of fluid/food dry thickening powder. For more information, click […]
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J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Nov 14. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.09.013. [Epub ahead of print] Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trial of Octreotide in Malignant Bowel Obstruction Currow DC, Quinn S, Agar M, Fazekas B, Hardy J, McCaffrey N, Eckermann S, Abernethy AP, Clark K In a double-blind multicentre RCT in Australia, people with advanced cancer presenting with vomiting secondary to inoperable […]
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PLoS One. 2014 Nov 25;9(11):e113188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113188. eCollection 2014 Palliative Care among Heart Failure Patients in Primary Care: A Comparison to Cancer Patients Using English Family Practice Data Gadoud A, Kane E, Macleod U, Ansell P, Oliver S, Johnson M Using the UK primary care database, Clinical Practice Research Datalink, this study explored if and when […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety alerts Patient Safety Alert for Potassium Permanganate NHS England has issued a patient safety alert (NHS/PSA/W/2014/18) warning of the risk of death or serious harm from accidental ingestion of potassium permanganate products. Potassium permanganate products are for […]
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Scand J Prim Health Care. 2014 Dec;32(4):187-92. doi: 10.3109/02813432.2014.972068. Epub 2014 Nov 3 Drug treatment at the end of life: An epidemiologic study in nursing homes Jansen K, Schaufel MA, Ruths S In a cohort study of 524 patients in three Norwegian nursing homes, diagnoses, drug prescriptions and demographic data were collected from electronic records. On […]
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Cancer. 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29097. [Epub ahead of print] The symptom burden of treatment-naive patients with head and neck cancer Hanna EY, Mendoza TR, Rosenthal DI, Gunn GB, Sehra P, Yucel E, Cleeland CS In this retrospective study of 748 patients with head and neck cancer who have not received treatment, symptoms, quality of […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety Alerts Gabapentin and Pregabalin Potential for Misuse Public Health England and NHS England have published advice for prescribers on the risk of misuse of gabapentin and pregabalin. For more information, click here. Hot Topics Drugs […]
Metamorphosis of an upload
Do social media uploads, comments, blogs and videos provide rich opportunities for research or should we stand back on moral grounds? Answer: we need a framework By Dr Dafydd Brooks , Dr Mark Taubert, clinicians at Velindre Cancer Centre and Dr Annmarie Nelson and Dr Noreen Hopewell-Kelly, researchers at the Marie Curie Palliative Care Research Centre, […]