Abstract The 2011 Canadian Cardiovascular Society Heart Failure (HF) Guidelines Focused
Update reviews the recently published clinical trials that will potentially impact on …

Purpose To estimate scenarios for survival for women with metastatic breast cancer (MBC)
who are starting chemotherapy. Patients and Methods We sought randomized, first-line …

A randomized pre-and post-test control group design was conducted in 12 oncology wards
to investigate the effectiveness of an intervention, existing of a communication skills training …

This study sought the views of patients and their caregivers on their experience of being
diagnosed with high grade glioma. Purposive sampling was used to recruit 19 patients and …

Communicating effectively with patients who have advanced cancer is one of the greatest
challenges facing physicians today. Whilst guiding the patient through complex diagnostic …

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences and preferences of
terminally ill cancer patients regarding truth telling in the communication of poor prognoses …

jeong sy‐s., higgins i. & mcmillan m.(2011) Experiences with advance care planning: nurses'
perspective. International Journal of Older People Nursing 6, 165–175 doi: 10.1111/j. 1748 …

Abstract Purpose: Doctors in Australia play an important role in facilitating access to
specialist palliative care (SPC) services for people with advanced cancer. This study aimed …

Managing CF can be emotionally and physically challenging for patients and their relatives.
The disease and its treatment influence the ability to tackle normal tasks of daily living and …

Background While there are many guidelines on how to make ethical decisions at the end of
life, there is little evidence regarding the quality of this sort of ethical guidelines. Objectives …