OBJECTIVE: To explore older people's and their relatives' views on and experiences of
acute health care. DESIGN: Systematic procedures were used for study selection and data …

Background: In most developed countries, acute hospitals play a significant role in palliative
care provision and are the setting in which most people die. They are often the setting where …

The previous articles (there were 2 before this 1) in this series discussed several
methodological approaches commonly used by qualitative researchers in the health …

In this paper I discuss the possibilities and limitations of the ethnographer participating in the
different on-going activities and events in highly specialised healthcare systems. The …

Background This paper focuses on communication between hospital staff and family carers
of patients dying on acute hospital wards, with an emphasis on the family carers' …

There were 509 090 deaths recorded in England and Wales for 2008; of these, over
56%(260 000) occurred in NHS hospitals. The death of a patient is an event that most, if not …

Background. Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) play a major role in the delivery of specialist
palliative care services to patients with advanced cancer, in hospital, hospice and …

This timely text highlights the importance of informed and critical practice in social work with
older people. With an emphasis on reflection throughout, it argues for the need to rethink …

This article examines field studies of nursing work published in the English language
between 1993 and 2003 as the first step towards an empirically based reformulation of the …

Background Compassion and collaborative practice are individually associated with high
quality healthcare. When combined in a compassionate collaborative care (CCC) practice …