Background: Pharmacists are among the most accessible health care professionals in the
community, yet are often not involved in community palliative care teams. Objective: We …

Background: Although accepted as an integral part of the interdisciplinary team, pharmacist
value in palliative care has predominantly been evaluated by subjective methods. This study …

Across the world, the need for palliative and end-of-life care is rising as the population ages
and more people are living longer with multiple long-term conditions. During the Covid-19 …

Hepler and Strand 1 define Pharmaceutical Care (PC) as the responsible provision of drug
therapy for the purpose of achieving definite outcomes that improve a patient's quality of life …

The palliative care pharmacist in North Derbyshire provides a clinical pharmacy service, as
defined in our earlier paper (1), to patients receiving specialist palliative care at Ashgate …

P harmacists are specializing in palliative care in increasing numbers. Pharmacists have
long been involved in monitoring drug therapy in terminally ill patients. Until recently …

This article outlines the important role of medicines in managing community-based palliative
care in the last year of life, together with the central role of nurses prescribing in this context …

Good medicines management is a cornerstone of highquality palliative care. Any prescribing
decision commences a cascade of formal and informal work to enact and link tasks (in the …

The new fifth edition of 'Introducing Palliative Care', published by UK-based palliativedrugs.
com, is a collaborative project between the palliativedrugs. com editorial team and eight new …