August 2018
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Staff publications
Fitchett and Nolan
(2018). Case studies in spiritual care: healthcare chaplaincy assessments,
interventions and outcomes. London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2018.
Available in the Hospice library.
Sharon Fleming and Sarah Dowd,
Lead Social Worker and Senior Social Worker, Princess Alice Hospice
Conference Poster:
Intimacy: the last taboo? Tackling Poverty in Palliative Care Conference 2018. Available
in the Hospice library.
Guidelines and standards
No new guidelines this month.
Cochrane systematic reviews
No new guidelines this month.
The Cochrane
Pain, Palliative and Supportive Care Review Group (PaPaS) pages, including
the palliative
care evidence database, can be found here: http://papas.cochrane.org/
Other systematic reviews and research studies
Gardiner C, Ryan T, Gott M.
BMJ Support Palliat Care. 2018 Sep;8(3):250-257. doi:
10.1136/bmjspcare-2018-001519. Epub 2018 Apr 13. Review.
Oczkowski SJ, Chung HO, Hanvey L, Mbuagbaw L, You JJ.
PLoS One. 2018 Sep 7;13(9):e0203911. doi:
10.1371/journal.pone.0203911. eCollection 2018.
Antunes B, Rodrigues PP, Higginson IJ, Ferreira PL.
Ann Palliat Med. 2018 Jul 26. pii: apm.2018.07.03. doi:
10.21037/apm.2018.07.03. [Epub ahead of print]
Outcome
measurement and complex physical, psychosocial and spiritual experiences of death and dying.
Azhar A, Bruera E.
Ann Palliat Med. 2018 Aug 9. pii: apm.2018.07.04. doi:
10.21037/apm.2018.07.04. [Epub ahead of print]
Martins Pereira S, Hernández-Marrero P.
Ann Palliat Med. 2018 Jul 11. pii: apm.2018.06.05. doi:
10.21037/apm.2018.06.05. [Epub ahead of print]
Tapp D, Blais MC.
Palliat Support Care. 2018 Aug 31:1-9. doi:
10.1017/S1478951518000512. [Epub ahead of print]
Waugh A, Kiemle G, Slade P.
Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2018 Aug 16;9(1):1506230. doi:
10.1080/20008198.2018.1506230. eCollection 2018.
Kupeli N, Candy B, Tamura-Rose G, Schofield G, Webber N,
Hicks SE, Floyd T, Vivat B, Sampson EL, Stone P, Aspden T.
Patient. 2018 Aug 24. doi: 10.1007/s40271-018-0328-2. [Epub
ahead of print] Review.
Ding J, Johnson CE, Cook A.
J Palliat Med. 2018 Aug 21. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0194.
[Epub ahead of print]
Baik D, Russell D, Jordan L, Dooley F, Bowles KH, Masterson
Creber RM.
J Palliat Med. 2018 Aug 21. doi: 10.1089/jpm.2018.0141.
[Epub ahead of print]
Hoffmann R, Kaiser J, Kersting A.
Psychooncology. 2018 Aug 18. doi: 10.1002/pon.4863. [Epub
ahead of print] Review.
Osman H, Shrestha S, Temin S, Ali ZV, Corvera RA, Ddungu HD,
De Lima L, Del Pilar Estevez-Diz M, Ferris FD, Gafer N, Gupta HK, Horton S,
Jacob G, Jia R, Lu FL, Mosoiu D, Puchalski C, Seigel C, Soyannwo O, Cleary JF.
J Glob Oncol. 2018 Jul;(4):1-24. doi: 10.1200/JGO.18.00026.
Zeng YS, Wang C, Ward KE, Hume AL.
J Pain Symptom Manage. 2018 Aug 2. pii:
S0885-3924(18)30390-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2018.07.016. [Epub ahead of
print] Review.
Huang SL, Lai WS, Fang SY.
Hu Li Za Zhi. 2018 Aug;65(4):84-93. doi:
10.6224/JN.201808_65(4).11. Chinese.
Eckert K, Motemaden L, Alves M.
J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2018 Jun;20(3):279-285. doi:
10.1097/NJH.0000000000000444.
Herman M, Horner K, Ly J, Vayl Y.
J Hosp Palliat Nurs. 2018 Feb;20(1):63-71. doi:
10.1097/NJH.0000000000000399.
Reports and announcements
Official
statistics show dementia caused 13% of UK deaths in 2017 (Alzheimer’s
Research UK, 18-Jul-18) Alzheimer’s Research UK is calling for urgent
investment in dementia research, following new statistics that show the
condition accounted for 13% of all UK deaths last year. The figures were
released by the Office for National Statistics in July.
Charities
warn that NHS pay award could hit hospices hard (Hospice UK,
10-Jul-18)
Charities Hospice UK, Together for Short Lives and Marie
Curie are warning that a pay rise for NHS staff could have a damaging impact on
charitable hospices in England and put vital services at risk unless they
receive financial help to meet extra costs for hospice staff.
Supreme Court
backs agreed end-of-life decisions (BBC, 3-Aug-18)
Legal permission will no longer be needed to withdraw
treatment from patients in permanent vegetative state, the Supreme
Court has ruled.
End of Life Doula UK (Living Well Dying Well)
New membership
organisation, End of Life Doula UK, for Living Well Dying Well Doulas and
Doulas in training. More information is available from aly@livingwelldyingwell.net.
New publications: Learning from deaths:
Information for families (NHS England, Jul-18)
These documents aim
to explain what happens after a bereavement; including information about how to
comment on the care a loved one received and what happens if a death will be
looked into by a coroner.
The dementia care pathway: full
implementation guidance (National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Jul-18)
A mandate to
increasing the number of people receiving a diagnosis within 6 weeks of a GP
referral, and to improving the quality of post-diagnostic treatment and support
for people with dementia and their carers.
Other evidence/education updates out this month
Health Management Bulletin (published 28-Aug-18):
End of Life Care Horizon Scanning (published 3-Aug-18):
Scottish Partnership for Palliative Care (published 31-Aug-18):
Table of contents
Updated since last month
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Journal
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Issue
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Access
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Yes
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Volume 35, Issue 9,
September 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. Full-text articles are available on the website (password
protected).
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No
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Yes
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NA
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Click on the link to view abstracts and full-text
articles (open-access).
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Yes
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Volume 8 Issue 3, September 2018
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Yes
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Volume 12, Issue 8, August
2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. A printed copy of this journal is available in the Hospice library.
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Yes
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Volume 23, Issue 9, September 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. Full-text articles are available through HDAS (CINAHL).
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Yes
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Volume 12, Issue 3, 2018
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Full-text articles are available through
inter-library loan. Please complete the form here.
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No
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Volume 42, Issue 10, 2018
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Full-text articles are available through
inter-library loan. Please complete the form here.
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No
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Volume 7, Issue 1, 2017
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Click on the link to view abstracts and full-text
articles (open-access).
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Yes
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Volume 25, Number 3, May/June 2018
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articles (PAH building only).
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Yes
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Volume 24, Issue 8,
2018
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articles (PAH building only).
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Yes
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Volume 26, Issue 4,
July/August 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. A printed copy of this journal is available in the Hospice library.
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Yes
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Volume 20, Issue 5,
2018
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edition. A printed copy of this journal is available in the Hospice library.
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No
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Volume 31, Issue 3/4,
2017
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Full-text articles are available through
inter-library loan. Please complete the form here.
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Yes
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Volume 56, Issue 4, October 2018
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No
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Volume 33, Issue 3, July 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. A printed copy of this journal is available in the Hospice library
and full-text online content is available through HDAS (ProQuest).
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Yes
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Volume 21, Issue 8, August 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts and full-text
articles (PAH building only). A printed copy of this journal is also
available in the Hospice library.
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No
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Volume 14, Issue 1,
2018
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articles (PAH building only).
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No
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Volume 16, Issue 3, June 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. Full-text online content is available from Cambridge Journals
website (sign in via the Institutional login with your Open Athens password).
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Yes
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Volume 32, Issue 8, August 2018
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Click on the link to view abstracts of the current
edition. A printed copy of this journal is available in the Hospice library.
Full-text is available online (SAGE) from 1998 to current (PAH building
only).
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No
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Volume 26, Issue 3, 2018
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