Abstract Context The Palliative Care Research Cooperative Group (PCRC) is the first clinical
trials cooperative for palliative care in the US Objectives To describe barriers and strategies …

Background: Effective recruitment to randomised controlled trials is critically important for a
robust, trustworthy evidence base in palliative care. Many trials fail to achieve recruitment …

Palliative care has faced moral and ethical challenges when conducting research involving
human subjects. There are currently no resources to guide institutional review boards (IRBs) …

PURPOSE: To review published studies evaluating the impact of continuing professional
development (CPD) programmes on rural nurses palliative care capabilities in order to …

Background Palliative care trials have higher rates of attrition. The MORECare guidance
recommends applying classifications of attrition to report attrition to help interpret trial results …

Background Heart failure (HF) is the most common diagnosis in hospitalized patients older
than 65 years of age. Although these patients often need specialist-directed palliative care,< …

Patients, families and physicians benefit from shared care concepts of oncology and
specialized palliative care. Although this concept is already becoming increasingly …

ABSTRACT A fundamental tension surrounds the ethics of conducting research in
vulnerable populations, and specifically, research involving patients at or near the end-of …

Purpose The quality of the supportive and palliative oncology literature is unclear. We
examined five indicators of study quality in the supportive and palliative oncology literature …

Palliative care is an increasingly important area of clinical practice and health service
delivery. The heterogeneity of the patient population and the multidisciplinary nature of care …