Aim: To review the latest qualitative literature on how the physical hospital environment
affects palliative patients and their families. Background: People with a life-limiting illness …

Background An urgent need to improve palliative care in hospital has been identified.
Moreover, service users consistently report care delivered by nurses in hospital as lacking …

Background: Hospitals are important sites of end-of-life care, particularly for older people. A
need has been identified to understand best practice in hospital end-of-life care from the …

Background The provision and quality of end-of-life care (EoLC) in Germany is inconsistent.
Therefore, an evaluation of current EoLC based on quality indicators is needed. This study …

ObjectivesReceiving bad news about one's health can be devastating, yet little is known
about how the therapeutic nature of the environment where bad news is delivered affects the …

Background: With the renewed emphasis on palliative care in Singapore, coupled with a
dearth of studies on provision of palliative care in acute services, it is timely to explore the …

Background People with advanced cancer often experience reduced functional capacity and
quality of life. Research evaluating the potential benefit of exercise programmes for limiting …

Aim To develop a conceptual framework of patient experience with nursing care.
Background Patient experience includes several aspects of health care delivery that patients …

Background Internationally, the epidemiology of dying is changing with people dying at an
older age from an expected death and with complex health care needs. An increasing …

Mnemonics are word formulations that aid physicians in recalling instances hidden among
typical applications and may be neglected due to workload. Mnemonic abbreviations that …