This week sees the ‘world’ congress of palliative care research taking place in Lleida, Spain. I am not attending, though it is good to keep up with the event by reading the abstracts that have been published in the June edition of Palliative Medicine and by following #EAPC2014. Actually, I have grown a bit sceptical… Continue reading
I was delighted by the interest in Watch with Me following my recent post and set out to find a pdf of the 2005 version. Fortunately it was still there on an old laptop. So here it is: Watch with Me full text 2005 (PDF) along with Watch with Me cover details 2005 (PDF)… Continue reading
Labouring in the fields of academia can so often result in a product that is consumed only by a few like minded folk. So it can be quite a surprise when our efforts resonate widely with a larger community of interest. On 17 March we published our paper on Imminence of death in hospital patients … Continue reading
Some time ago a colleague of mine in Ireland, Eugene Murray, then CEO of the Irish Hospice Foundation, raised the idea of whether it was possible to work out what proportion of people in hospital at any one time are in the last year of life. Knowing the figure, he argued, would assist in advocacy… Continue reading
