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Early oral feeding post gastrectomy in gastric cancer: quasi-experimental study | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Objective This study aims to investigate the safety and feasibility of early oral feeding in patients with gastric cancer after gastrectomy. Methods A total of 135 patients with gastric cancer who ...
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Advance directives in European long-term care facilities: a cross-sectional survey | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Background End-of-life care practices in long-term care facilities (LTCFs) are the focus of growing attention in Europe, due to rapidly increasing number of older persons living in LTCFs. The ...
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Unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: transarterial chemoembolisation plus Huachansu – a single-center randomised controlled trial - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Objective Huachansu, a Chinese medicine derived from the dried skin glands of toad venom, has been used in China since the 1970s to treat liver cancer. Transarterial chemoembolisation (TACE) is the ...
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Assisted dying request assessments by trained consultants: changes in practice and quality - Repeated cross-sectional surveys (2008–2019) - BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Objectives To study changes in the peer consultation practice of assessing assisted dying requests and its quality among trained ‘Life End Information Forum’ (LEIF) consultants in Belgium between 2008 ...
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Early palliative care in newly diagnosed cancer in Ethiopia: feasibility randomised controlled trial and cost analysis | BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care
Objectives Globally, cancer deaths are rising. In low-and-middle-income countries, there is a gap in access to palliative care (PC). We designed a feasibility trial to study the initiation of early PC ...