What's New
LITERATURE, REPORTS, GUIDELINES
- Canadian study shows those who received early palliative care had lower health care costs in the last month of life.
- Queensland Health Guideline. Heart Failure: End-stage management
- Scanlon B et al. Equity across the cancer care continuum for culturally and linguistically diverse migrants living in Australia: a scoping review. Global Health. 2021 Jul 28;17(1):87. doi: 10.1186/s12992-021-00737-w.
- Roos D et al. Rapid Access Palliative Radiotherapy clinics - the evidence is there, but where are the clinics? An Australian and New Zealand perspective. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 2021 Jul 24;S0360-3016(21)00904-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2021.07.034
- Daddow A, Stanley M. Heidi's legacy: Community palliative care at work in regional Australia. Soc Work Health Care. 2021 Jul 26;1-14. doi: 10.1080/00981389.2021.1958128.
- Experiential learning to increase palliative care competence among the Indigenous workforce
- The efficacy of abdominal massage in managing opioid-induced constipation
- Comprehensive Care at the End of Life - NSQHS
- Laycarers can confidently prepare and administer s/c injections for palliative care patients at home
- Why Palliative Care Service Dev't Guidelines are important; biggest changes from previous guidelines
- Cultural Safety Matters - The Conversation We Need to Keep Having
- TGA Guidance Documents:
- Australian Institute of Health & Welfare palliative care publications
- Guidelines for the handling of palliative care medicines in community services
- Laycarers can confidently prepare and administer subcutaneous injections for palliative care patients at home: A randomized controlled trial (Palliat Med 2018)
- Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Sunday Times best seller 'With the end in mind', in BBC video
- $5m for rollout of PainChek pain recognition app for residential aged care
- Sad News, Sorry Business: Guidelines for caring for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people through death and dying (PDF 518KB)
- A beginner's guide to successful palliative care research (PDF 467KB)
PROJECTS/OTHER
- Ottawa paramedics to get new powers to treat palliative patients at home
- Australian Centre for Health Law Research - legal dimensions of pain relief for EoL patients
- End of Life Directions for Aged Care (ELDAC)
- Occupational Therapy Framework of Clinical Practice for Palliative Care
- caring@home Project
- Care at the End of Life (Qld Gov)
- Care at End of Life Project
- Connecting End of Life Care in Townsville (PCQ/NQPHN)
- Medicinal Cannabis Clinical Guidance (Qld Health)
- Palliative Care Resources - CPCRE