Fliss EM Murtagh

Nov 1, 2024 | spcare.bmj.com | Alice M Firth |Joanna Goodrich |Catherine Evans |Fliss EM Murtagh

AbstractBackground Improving community palliative care outside of normal working hours is a patient and family priority. Aim To explore patient and families’ perspectives of four different UK models of out-of-hours community palliative care. Methods Qualitative semi-structured interviews with patients receiving specialist palliative care and family caregivers. Participants were purposively sampled by model of out-of-hours community care.

Mar 7, 2024 | journals.sagepub.com | Slavica Kochovska |Fliss EM Murtagh |Meera Agar |Jane Phillips

What is already known about the topic? •Palliative care is a referral-dependent specialty, with a research base that comprises a large proportion of observational studies. •Lack of agreed referral criteria contributes to the heterogeneity of population(s) served by palliative care, while the often inadequate descriptions of study populations or settings contribute to the variability in patient and caregiver data presented to clinicians.