Background Shared decision‐making is a process where the decisions regarding patients'
care are done in collaboration with the patient, the patient's family and a healthcare …

Background: Shared decision-making is a key element of person-centred care and
promoted as the favoured model in preference-sensitive decision-making. Limitations to …

Clinician gate-keeping is the process whereby healthcare providers prevent access to
eligible patients for research recruitment. This paper contends that clinician gate-keeping …

STUDY AIM: When children with cancer are no longer curable, parents often need to decide
between further aggressive treatments or symptom relief alone. Objectives were to:(1) …

Objective To explore the impact of environment on experiences of hospitalisation from the
perspective of patient's with palliative care needs. Methods A qualitative study design using …

Objective Issues regarding clinician communication remain an important source of
complaints within healthcare. This systematic review aims to determine cancer patients' and …

Quality of life is a concern that extends to various specialist areas, such as the provision of
oncology and associated ancillary services, and the living support services (LSS) provided …

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the type of relationship and the process of
developing these relationships between nurses and patients in palliative care units in …

Objective Home-based palliative care has been suggested to be a beneficial model of care.
Whether it is a desirable option of the family and patients is arguable. This study, therefore …

Purpose: This study aimed to explore the patient's experience of the radiotherapy pathway
with a view to improving patient-centred services. Methods: Women's views about the …