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Research

• Factors associated with variation in hospital use at the end of life in England (24 March, 2016)

  Martin Bardsley, Theo Georghiou, Ruth Spence, John Billings
• Comparison of informal caregiver and named nurse assessment of symptoms in elderly patients dying in hospital using the palliative outcome scale (12 January, 2016)

  Rebecca Dawber, Kathy Armour, Peter Ferry, Bhaskar Mukherjee, Christopher Carter, Chantal Meystre
• The death of patients with terminal cancer: the distress experienced by their children and medical professionals who provide the children with support care (4 February, 2016)

  Hiroyuki Otani, Miwa Ozawa, Tatsuya Morita, Ayako Kawami, Sahana Sharma, Keiko Shiraishi, Akira Oshima
• Evidence of increasing public participation in advance care planning: a comparison of polls in Alberta between 2007 and 2013 (27 January, 2016)

  J E Simon, S Ghosh, D Heyland, T Cooke, S Davison, J Holroyd-Leduc, E Wasylenko, J Howlett, K Fassbender
• Do patients with lung cancer recall physician-initiated discussions about planning for end-of-life care following disclosure of a terminal prognosis? (3 February, 2016)

  Gillian Horne, Sheila Payne, Jane Seymour
• Supporting and improving community health services—a prospective evaluation of ECHO technology in community palliative care nursing teams (1 December, 2015)

  Clare White, Sonja McIlfatrick, Lynn Dunwoody, Max Watson
• Managing Cancer And Living Meaningfully (CALM): randomised feasibility trial in patients with advanced cancer (19 January, 2016)

  Chris Lo, Sarah Hales, Aubrey Chiu, Tania Panday, Carmine Malfitano, Judy Jung, Anne Rydall, Madeline Li, Rinat Nissim, Camilla Zimmermann, Gary Rodin
• Palliative care research centre's move into social media: constructing a framework for ethical research, a consensus paper (28 January, 2016)

  Noreen Hopewell-Kelly, Jessica Baillie, Stephanie Sivell, Emily Harrop, Anna Bowyer, Sophia Taylor, Kristen Thomas, Alisha Newman, Hayley Prout, Anthony Byrne, Mark Taubert, Annmarie Nelson