Studies by Investigator

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Abbott, Jo

• Survey of hospice and palliative care bereavement services in Australia

Abernethy, Amy

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting
• A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled titrated dose pilot study of sertraline in people with refractory breathlessness (12kb pdf)
• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg
• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants
• Opioids in dyspnoea - An open label, prospective, dose ranging effectiveness study of sustained-release opioids in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea in opioid naive patients in the palliative care setting
• Palliative care search strategy validation

Abuhassan, Fikri

• Assessment of post-operative pain management in patients undergoing surgery in a cancer hospital: An audit using the VQC Pain Assessment Tool-kit

Adams, Amanda

• Assessing the access and value of online palliative care information resources (261kb pdf)

Agar, Meera

• Application of a clinical typology for terminal restlessness
• Improving the welfare and end of life experience for residents, families and staff: A case conferencing approach for older people living with advanced dementia or mental illness
• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use
• Prospective study of predictors of the diagnosis of delirium or future development of the delirium: the association between serum anticholinergic levels and diagnosis or future development of delirium in palliative care patients with advanced cancer
• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients
• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1

Alexander, Susan

• A phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of malignant wounds from the perspective of patients, carers and nursing staff.

Allcroft, Peter

• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants

Anstey, Matthew

• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life

Aoun, Samar

• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Aranda, Sanchia

• The ordinary becomes extraordinary: The occupation of living at the end-of-life (275kb pdf)
• Toward optimal facilitation of family meetings in palliative care

Ashby, Michael

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients

Askew, Deborah

• How do GPs provide palliative care in rural and remote Queensland? (41kb pdf)

Austin, Helen

• Development of a statewide coordinated specialist and generalised palliative medicine training program
• Liverpool care pathway project

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Bach, Danielle

• The Palliative Management of Patients with Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD)

Ball, David

• Relevance of Peter Mac's staff Christmas choir to patients, visitors, and staff

Barry, Pip

• The relevance of music for adolescents and young adults (15-25 years) diagnosed with cancer

Barbato, Michael

• Sedation and analgesia in unconscious palliative care patients: can BIS monitoring add to our understanding

Bauer, Judy

• Randomised, double blind control trial of megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of anorexia in people with cancer

Benfatti-Olivato, Gustavo

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life

Bensink, Mark

• Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: A randomised controlled pilot study of videotelephony (41kb pdf)

Benson, Melanie

• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer
• 1. Prospective audit of clinical efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain 2. Clinical use, efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - A retrospective chart audit

Birtles, Eliza

• Factors Contributing to Job Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction and Burnout for Oncology and Palliative Care Nurses

Bish, Melanie

• Living and dying at home in rural Australia: the district nursing role of advocacy

Bogaardt, Hans

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Bolleter, Amanda

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Bonner, Ann

• Achieving needs-based end of life services: a prospective, longitudinal study of the pathways for patients with Stage 3-5 Chronic Kidney Disease (30kb pdf)

Bonnin, Rosie

• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)

Braband, Mikkel

• Validation of a clinical tool to predict death in older patients presenting at hospital emergency departments

Bradford, Natalie

• So many questions

Bradley, Sandra

• What factors influence the use of advance directives by Baby Boomers in South Australia?

Braithwaite, Maxine

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients

Brand, Caroline

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Breaden, Katrina

• Caregivers' expectations and experiences of the use of home oxygen in the palliative setting

• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use

Breen, Dorothy

• Validation of a clinical tool to predict death in older patients presenting at hospital emergency departments

Breen, Sibilah

• Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW (21kb pdf)

Briffa, Michael

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting. (14kb pdf)
• Opioids in dyspnoea - An open label, prospective, dose ranging effectiveness study of sustained-release opioids in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea in opioid naive patients in the palliative care setting

Broadbent, Andrew

• Evaluation of a Palliative Care Telehealth Service with the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) (167kb pdf)
• General practitioners & palliative care study
• Use of Methylnaltrexone for opioid induced constipation in usual clinical setting

Brooksbank, Mary

• Informing the development of a model of care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): what ate their care needs and are they being met?

Brown, J

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

Brown, Margaret

• Informing the development of a model of care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): What are their care needs and are they being met?

Brumley, David

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients

Bryan, Tamsin

• The use of levomepromazine in palliation (TULIP)

Bucetti, Anne

• How do GPs provide palliative care in rural and remote Queensland? (41kb pdf)

Burgess, Teresa

• Informing the development of a model of care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): What are their care needs and are they being met?

Burridge, Letitia

• Home-based care for advanced cancer patients: the impact on family carers
• Seeing the unseen: an exploration of reluctance to care in lay carers of cancer patients

Bush, Tony

• Palliative care education: Does it influence future practice?

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Cahill, Philippa

• The VOICE Study: Valuing Opinions, Individual Communication and Experience: Building the evidence base for undertaking patient-centered family meetings in palliative care: A mixed methods study

Caplan, Gideon

• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients

Cardona-Morrell, Magnolia

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life
• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life
• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study
• Validation of a clinical tool to predict death in older patients presenting at hospital emergency departments

Carey, Lindsay

• Speech-language pathology in paediatric palliative care: A scoping review of role and practice

Cartmill, John

• A randomised double blind placebo controlled trail of infusional subcutaneous octreotide in the management of malignant bowel obstruction in people with advanced cancer

Cass, Barbara

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)

Chaboyer, Wendy

• What are the decision-making processes that underpin the self-management of persistent pain?

Chang, Esther

• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: Links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia
• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity

Chapman, Amanda

• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study

Chapman, Ysanne

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)

Cheney, Julie

• The long goodbye

Cherry, David

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting

Choo, Shi

• 1. Prospective audit of clinical efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain
• 2. Clinical use, efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - a retrospective chart audit

Ciechomski, Lisa

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria

Clatworthy, Rosemary

• What is the effect of Transitioning Hospice patients in the end stages of their life to Residential Aged Care Facilities?

Clark, Katherine

• A randomised double blind placebo controlled trail of infusional subcutaneous octreotide in the management of malignant bowel obstruction in people with advanced cancer
• Improving the welfare and end of life experience for residents, families and staff: A case conferencing approach for older people living with advanced dementia or mental illness

Clarke, David

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Clayton, Josephine

• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1

Clavarino, Alexandra

• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer

Clifton, Di

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Cockayne, Mark

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients

Connell, Simone

• Bereavement Counselling Outcome Assessment Tool (The BOAT Study)

Conte, Karen

• National Specialist Palliative Care and Advance Care Planning Advisory Services Project (Decision Assist)

Corry, Anna

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Craig, Pippa

• The Psychosocial Impact of Food and Nutrition on Palliative Care Patients and their Carers

Craig, Sandy

• A randomised double blind placebo controlled trail of infusional subcutaneous octreotide in the management of malignant bowel obstruction in people with advanced cancer

Crawford, Greg

• Informing the development of a model of care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): what are their care needs and are they being met?
• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants
• The influence of undergraduate palliative care attachments on medical practice: A qualitative study of junior doctors
• What is the effect of Transitioning Hospice patients in the end stages of their life to Residential Aged Care Facilities?

Crewdson, Michael

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Crockett, Alan

• Informing the development of a model of care for patients with end stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): what are their care needs and are they being met?

Cross, Dana

• Evaluation of the Living Well Dying Well (LWDW) pilot program and the Cradle Coast Connected Care Electronic Health Record (4CEHR) system, Final Report, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania
• Northern Hospice Feasibility Study, Final Report, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania

Cumming, Steven

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Currow, David

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting. (14kb pdf)
• A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled titrated dose pilot study of sertraline in people with refractory breathlessness (12kb pdf)
• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg
• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants (27kb pdf)
• A randomised double-blind multi-site parallel arm controlled trial to assess relief of refractory breathlessness comparing fixed doses of morphine and placebo
• A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain
• A randomised double blind placebo controlled trail of infusional subcutaneous octreotide in the management of malignant bowel obstruction in people with advanced cancer
• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?
• Determining eHealth literacy levels
• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)
• Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Improving the welfare and end of life experience for residents, families and staff: A case conferencing approach for older people living with advanced dementia or mental illness
• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit
• Opioids in dyspnoea - An open label, prospective, dose ranging effectiveness study of sustained-release opioids in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea in opioid naive patients in the palliative care setting
• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C) (14kb pdf)
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure (14kb pdf)
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
• Palliative care search strategy validation
• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use
• The ordinary becomes extraordinary: The occupation of living at the end-of-life (275kb pdf)
• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

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Daly, John

• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia
• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity
• Residential - Palliative Approach Competency Study (R-PAC Study)

Damarell, Raechel

• Evidence-based, patient-centred clinical decision making in the management of patients with multimorbidity and limited life expectancy: the Australian general practitioner experience (143kb pdf)
• How do clinicians learn about Knowledge Translation? Examining the online opportunities

Danby, Susan

• So many questions

Davidson, Patricia M

• A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled titrated dose pilot study of sertraline in people with refractory breathlessness (12kb pdf)
• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: Links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia
• Older women's experiences of widowhood in the first twelve months following bereavement
• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)
• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity
• Residential - Palliative Approach Competency Study (R-PAC Study)
• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1

Dawson, Helen

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Deane, Frank

• Acceptance and valued-living in palliative care patients, caregivers and significant others

DeBakker, Jason

• The long goodbye

Denehy, Linda

• The ordinary becomes extraordinary: The occupation of living at the end-of-life (275kb pdf).

Devery, Kim

• A systematic review of patient report of deathbed phenomena
• Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies
• What is the impact of a Flinders University postgraduate palliative care course on the professional lives of alumni and on their ability to change work practice?

DiGiacomo, Michelle

• Older women's experiences of widowhood in the first twelve months following bereavement

 Dooley, Kerri

• Bayside Palliative Carers Support Group
• The long goodbye

Dooley, Michael J

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Douglas, Carol

• A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings (16kb pdf)
• Use of Methylnaltrexone for opioid induced constipation in usual clinical setting

Douglass, Jo

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Duggan, Nicole

• Managing diabetes at the end of life

Dunstan, Roger

• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program

Draper, Brian

• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients

Dunning, Trisha

• Managing diabetes at the end of life

Dwyer, V

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

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Eagar, Kathy

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program
• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
• Patient outcomes in palliative care – a national perspective of malignant and non-malignant diseases

Eckermann, Simon

• A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain

Ekberg, Stuart

• So many questions

Ellerton, Kirrily

• The use of levomepromazine in palliation (TULIP)

Ellis, Jodi

• Identifying the barriers to access to palliative care services by patients from a CALD background: A chart audit of 100 CALD deaths at CHCK
• The Psychosocial Impact of Food and Nutrition on Palliative Care Patients and their Carers

Erny-Albrecht, Katrina

• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)

Esterman, Adrian

• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants

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Fazekas, Belinda

• Palliative care search strategy validation

Fenwick, Clare

• What are the decision-making processes that underpin the self-management of persistent pain?

Fildes, Dave

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program
• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Fisher, John

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients

Fitzgerald, Les

• Living and dying at home in rural Australia: the district nursing role of advocacy

Fleming, Julia

• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Assessment of post-operative pain management in patients undergoing surgery in a cancer hospital: An audit using the VQC Pain Assessment Tool-kit
• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists
• Retrospective and prospective audit of gabapentin and pre-gablin prescribing for neuropathic pain in a major cancer hospital (39kb pdf)

Fleming, MaryLou

• A study of the integration of health promotion principles and practice in palliative care organisations

Flynn, Eleanor

• Liverpool Care Pathway project

Fong, Kwun

• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer

Foot, Lorna

• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

Francis, Karen

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)

Frith, Peter

• A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled titrated dose pilot study of sertraline in people with refractory breathlessness (12kb pdf)
• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg
• Opioids in dyspnoea - An open label, prospective, dose ranging effectiveness study of sustained-release opioids in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea in opioid naive patients in the palliative care setting

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Gallego-Luxan, Bianca

• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study

Gilsenan, Kerry

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Girgis, Afaf

• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?
• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)
• Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C) (14kb pdf)
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure (14kb pdf)
• The Partners and Caregivers Study: A longitudinal study of the psychosocial outcomes of the partners/caregivers of cancer survivors
• The Supportive Care Needs Survey for Partners and Caregivers of cancer survivors: Development and psychometric evaluation
• Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW (21kb pdf)
• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

Glaetzer, Karen

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Glare, Paul

• Randomised, double blind control trial of megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of anorexia in people with cancer

Gold, Michelle

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff (23kb pdf)

Good, Phillip

• The long goodbye

Goodson, Shelley

• Attitudes to providing blood transfusions in the last 3/12 of life: The views of Palliative care Physicians, Oncologists, Haematologists and PalIiative care nurses

Gorton, Emma

• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure (14kb pdf)

Gourlay, Geoffrey

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting. (14kb pdf)

Gravier, Susan

• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)

Greaves, Judi

• Randomised, double blind control trial of megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of anorexia in people with cancer

Green, Janette

• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Grenyer, Brin

• REACH out in Dementia

Gresham, Meredith

• Improving the welfare and end of life experience for residents, families and staff: A case conferencing approach for older people living with advanced dementia or mental illness

Grocke, Denise

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Grootemaat, Pam

• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

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Halkett, Georgia

• CARE-IS Study – Care-IS Trial: A randomised controlled trial of a supportive educational intervention for caregivers of patients with high grade glioma

Hall, Christopher

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Hamilton, Vicki

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)

Hancock, Karen

• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity

Harbison, Anne

• Exploration of the requirements and feasibility for a Victorian Palliative Care Research Collaborative

Hardy, Janet

• A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain
• A two-stage trial of antiemetic therapy in patients with cancer and nausea not related to anticancer therapy.
  Study 2: A randomised controlled double blind study of levomepromazine versus placebo with rescue antiemetics (best supportive care) in patients with refractory nausea
• Randomised, controlled, double blind study of oral methotrimeprazine versus oral haloperidol in patients with cancer and nausea not related to anticancer therapy (Nausea study 3)
• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer

Harrison, Kathleen

• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: Links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia
• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity

Haydon, Helen

• Evaluation of a Palliative Care Telehealth Service with the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) (167kb pdf)

Henderson, David

• IPP-SHR and Redland Hospital Collaboration - Ethical decision making in a health care setting including findings on end of life care

Hegney, Desley

• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in Residential Aged Care (CEBPRAC)

Herbert, Anthony

• So many questions

Hill, Mark

• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients

Hillman, Ken

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life
• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life

Hohn, Ruth

• Improving end-of-life care at Canossa

Holewa, Hamish

• IPP-SHR and Redland Hospital Collaboration - Ethical decision making in a health care setting including findings on end of life care
• The development of a model of care for haematology and palliative care

Hornby, Colin

• Relevance of Peter Mac's staff Christmas choir to patients, visitors, and staff

Hosie, Annmarie

• Delirium prevalence, incidence and implications for screening in specialist care inpatient settings: a systematic review

Hudson, Peter

• Development of a statewide coordinated specialist and generalised palliative medicine training program
• Exploration of the requirements and feasibility for a Victorian Palliative Care Research Collaborative
• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients
• Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention
• Improving the psychological wellbeing of family caregivers of home based palliative care patients: A randomised controlled trial
• Life threatening cancer across the lifespan: Examining the relevance of music to patients and their companions
• Toward optimal facilitation of family meetings in palliative care
• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Hughes, Graham

• Adelaide Hills Palliative Care Project (National Rural Palliative Care Program)

Humpel, Nancy

• REACH out in Dementia

Humphreys, John

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)

Hunt, Roger

• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants
• Randomised, double blind control trial of megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of anorexia in people with cancer

Hunter, Cynthia

• The Psychosocial Impact of Food and Nutrition on Palliative Care Patients and their Carers

Husain, M

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

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Icasiano, Francis

• Evaluation of a volunteer-based client biography service (25kb pdf)

Iecathelinais, Christophe

• Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW (21kb pdf)

Ingham, Jane

 

• End of life care in an urban emergency department: Optimising the care delivered for patients when death occurs in emergency departments
• Last days of life linkage study: Patterns of health services use and experiences of NSW residents in the year prior to death (NSW end-of-life study).

Irving, Helen

• Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: A randomised controlled pilot study of videotelephony (41kb pdf)

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Jackson, Debra

• Residential - Palliative Approach Competency Study (R-PAC Study)

Jansen, Wendy

• What is the effect of Transitioning Hospice patients in the end stages of their life to Residential Aged Care Facilities?

Jenkin, Peter

• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in Residential Aged Care (CEBPRAC)

Jensen, Jesse

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life

Jiwa, Moyez

• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?

Johnson, Amanda

• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: Links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity

Johnson, Claire

• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)
• Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit

Jones, Gayle

• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain

Joske, David

• The development of a model of care for haematology and palliative care

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Kain, Victoria

• The Praecox Program: Development of a national program to support neonatal palliative cae in the clinical area

Kawamata, Mari

• An audit of the incidence, mechanism, aetiology and management of nausea and vomiting in patients at a comprehensive cancer centre

Kearney, Jackie

• Development of a statewide coordinated specialist and generalised palliative medicine training program

Kelly, Brian

• Improving the psychological wellbeing of family caregivers of home based palliative care patients: A randomised controlled trial

Kelly, Katherine

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Kenny, Belinda

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Kim, James

• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life

King, Scott

• The use of levomepromazine in palliation (TULIP)

Kissane, David

• End of life care for patients with dementia in hospital

Klein, Britt

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria (37kb pdf)

Komesaroff, Paul

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Kralik, Debbie

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Krikheli, Lillian

• Speech-language pathology in paediatric palliative care: A scoping review of role and practice

Kristjanson, Linda J

• Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention
• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients
• Residential - Palliative Approach Competency Study (R-PAC Study)

Krum, Henry

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

Kurrle, Sue

• A palliative approach for people with declining health, living in hostel accommodation: the state of play

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Lago, Luis

• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program

Lambert, Sylvie

• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit
• The Partners and Caregivers Study: A longitudinal study of the psychosocial outcomes of the partners/caregivers of cancer survivors
• The Supportive Care Needs Survey for partners and caregivers of cancer survivors: Development and psychometric evaluation

Langbecker, Danette

• Evaluation of a Palliative Care Telehealth Service with the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) (167kb pdf)

Lau, Roslyn

• The evaluation of models of community after hours palliative care

Lecathelinais, Christophe

• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)

Lee, Susan

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease (37kb pdf)
• Dying in the place of choice: End of life care in private hospitals

Leung, Dominic

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

Lewis, Ebony

• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study

Lewis, Virginia

• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)

Lobb, Elizabeth A

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support
• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project
• Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention
• Identifying the barriers to access to palliative care services by patients from a CALD background: A chart audit of 100 CALD deaths at CHCK
• Retrospective medical record audit and analysis of the clinical journeys of 100 consecutive deaths for any oncology patient at St. George Hospital

Lovell, Melanie

• Cancer pain education for patients
• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1
• The experience of refactory breathlessness (176kb pdf)
• The Stop Cancer PAIN Trial

Luckett, Tim

• Developing self management strategies to reduce avoidable Emergency Department presentations for chronic refractory breathlessness: a strengths based approach using qualitative methods
• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1

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Mackenzie, Lynette

• The experience of refactory breathlessness (176kb pdf)

Maltby, Kirstin

• The SAC Study - Sleep in Australian Caregivers: Evaluating the sleep disturbances of adults caring for a person living with advanced cancer in the community

Marriott, Jennifer L

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Martin, Peter

• Managing diabetes at the end of life
• Randomised, double blind control trial of megestrol acetate, dexamethasone and placebo in the management of anorexia in people with cancer

Masso, Malcolm

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Matete, Sheila

• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program
• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Mathison, Bernice A.

• Speech-language pathology in paediatric palliative care: A scoping review of role and practice

McDermott, Fiona

• End of life care for patients with dementia in hospital
• Life threatening cancer across the lifespan: Examining the relevance of music to patients and their companions

McDonald, Christine

• A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled titrated dose pilot study of sertraline in people with refractory breathlessness (12kb pdf)
• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg
• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants
• Opioids in dyspnoea - An open label, prospective, dose ranging effectiveness study of sustained-release opioids in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea in opioid naive patients in the palliative care setting

McDonald, Peter

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

McEniery, Judith

• A randomised double blind placebo controlled trail of infusional subcutaneous octreotide in the management of malignant bowel obstruction in people with advanced cancer

McGrath, Pam

• IPP-SHR and Redland Hospital Collaboration - Ethical decision making in a health care setting including findings on end of life care
• The development of a model of care for haematology and palliative care

McIver, Shane

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff (23kb pdf)

McKenzie, Heather

• A palliative approach for people with declining health, living in hostel accommodation: the state of play

McManus, James

• Evaluation of a Palliative Care Telehealth Service with the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) (167kb pdf)

McVey, Peta

• A palliative approach for people with declining health, living in hostel accommodation: the state of play

Michael, Natasha

• Facilitating discussions on advance care planning in caregivers of cancer patients using the vignette technique (part 1 of 2 part study)
• Facilitating discussion on treatment preferences and advance care planning in cancer patients using the vignette technique

Miles, Gail

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria (37kb pdf)

Miller, Belinda

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Miller-Lewis, Lauren

• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)
• What role do Death Doulas play in end of life care? (196kb pdf)

Milner, Alvin

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Mills, Jason

• The SELF-CARE Study: Self-care in the palliative care workforce, and its relationship to self-compassion for others

Mitchell, Geoff

• A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings (16kb pdf)
• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?
• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer
• Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
• Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention
• General practitioners & palliative care study
• General practitioners' perceptions of their role in cancer care and factors which influence this role
• How do GPs provide palliative care in rural and remote Queensland? (41kb pdf)
• How lay carers regard and use the Internet as a source of support information
• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C) (14kb pdf)
• The BASIC-NP Project (Better Assessment, Support and Interdisciplinary Care – Nurse Practitioner) (305kb pdf)

Mogensen, Christian Backer

• Validation of a clinical tool to predict death in older patients presenting at hospital emergency departments

Monahan, Raelene

• The Partners and Caregivers Study: A longitudinal study of the psychosocial outcomes of the partners/caregivers of cancer survivors

Moon, Felicity

• End of life care for patients with dementia in hospital

Moran, Juli

• Use of Methylnaltrexone for opioid induced constipation in usual clinical setting

Morgan, Deidre

• The ordinary becomes extraordinary: The occupation of living at the end-of-life (275kb pdf)
• Views and experiences of Allied Health professionals about palliative care, and about the CareSearch Allied Health Hub (AHH) and newsletter

Mowll, Jane

• Mapping Grief Study: The experience of care, grief and adjustment for family members bereaved after a coronial or palliative care death

Mugg, Helen

• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer

Myhill, Karin

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

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Nation, Roger L

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Newton, Phillip

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

Nguyen, Vina

• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer

Niap, Ann

• Retrospective and prospective audit of gabapentin and pre-gablin prescribing for neuropathic pain in a major cancer hospital (39kb pdf)

Noel, Michael

• Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: Links to improved care
• Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia
• Palliative care dementia interface: Enhancing community capacity

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O'Callaghan, Clare

• Life threatening cancer across the lifespan: Examining the relevance of music to patients and their companions
• Relevance of Peter Mac's staff Christmas choir to patients, visitors, and staff
• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment
• The relevance of music for adolescents and young adults (15-25 years) diagnosed with cancer

O'Connell, Dianne

• Last days of life linkage study: Patterns of health services use and experiences of NSW residents in the year prior to death (NSW end-of-life study).

O'Connor, Margaret

• A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease
• Dying in the place of choice: End of life care in private hospitals
• Exploring the palliative care needs of veterans at home
• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals
• Survey of hospice and palliative care bereavement services in Australia
• The evaluation of models of community after hours palliative care
• The impact on mental health of frequent deaths that occur in high care in aged care settings, on individuals and the resident community
• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria (37kb pdf)

Oke, Lin

• Views and experiences of Allied Health professionals about palliative care, and about the CareSearch Allied Health Hub (AHH) and newsletter

Oldham, Lynn

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support
• Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention
• Improving the psychological wellbeing of family caregivers of home based palliative care patients: A randomised controlled trial

O'Doherty, Lorna

• A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings (16kb pdf)

O'Kane, Margie

• A study of the integration of health promotion principles and practice in palliative care organisations

O'Loughlin, Kate

• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

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Payne, Sheila

• Survey of hospice and palliative care bereavement services in Australia

Pai, Nagesh

• REACH out in Dementia

Parker, Deborah

• Comparison of palliative care outcome measures used to assess the quality of palliative care provided in residential aged care facilities: A systematic review
• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in residential aged care (CEBPRAC)

Pearson, Elizabeth

• Relevance of Peter Mac's staff Christmas choir to patients, visitors, and staff

Peters, Louise

• Dying in the place of choice: End of life care in private hospitals
• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals
• Survey of hospice and palliative care bereavement services in Australia
• The evaluation of models of community after hours palliative care

Petersen, John

• Validation of a clinical tool to predict death in older patients presenting at hospital emergency departments

Philip, Jennifer

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Exploration of the requirements and feasibility for a Victorian Palliative Care Research Collaborative
• Liverpool Care Pathway project
• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff (23kb pdf)

Phillips, Jane

• Anonymous survey study examining acceptability and preferences for route of administration in a future clinical trial
• Fan activity and breathlessness(FAB)Study
• Palliative care -life space assessment (PC-LSA) validation
• PEACE study: Preparedness for End-of-life And other Conversations including Euthanasia
• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use
• Spaced education: As a tool to help translate pain assessment and management evidence into routine cancer care practice
• Spaced education in the specialist palliative care setting: Exploring its potential to improve pain management
• Who grieves? The patient perspective

Phillips, Jane L

• Residential - Palliative Approach Competency Study (R-PAC Study)
• STrategies to decrease pain thrOugh implementing a duel clinical PAIN PATHway. Stop Pain Path Phase 1

Phillips, Paddy

• Determining eHealth literacy levels

Picot, Sharon

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Piller, Neil

• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants

Pisasale, Maria

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Plummer, John

• A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain

Potter, Jan

• REACH out in Dementia

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Quinn,  Karen

• Group education program for family caregivers of home based palliative care patients
• Toward optimal facilitation of family meetings in palliative care
• Liverpool Care Pathway project

Quinsey, Karen

• Caring Communities: Evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program
• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

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Rawlings, Deb

• Adelaide Hills Palliative Care Project (National Rural Palliative Care Program)
• Views and experiences of Allied Health professionals about palliative care, and about the CareSearch Allied Health Hub (AHH) and newsletter
• What is the impact of a Flinders University postgraduate palliative care course on the professional lives of alumni and on their ability to change work practice?
• What role do Death Doulas play in end of life care? (196kb pdf)

Recoche, Katrina

• Expectations and barriers in the ambulance service and palliative care interface

Reed, Frances

• Living and dying at home in rural Australia: the district nursing role of advocacy

Remedios, Cheryl

• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Reymond, Liz

• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in residential aged care (CEBPRAC)

Rhee, Joel

• Can death from chronic life-limiting illnesses be predicted in Australian general practice? A study exploring the feasibility and acceptability of a case finding approach to patients nearing the end-of-life
• General practitioners & palliative care study

Rigby, Chris

• Improving the welfare and end of life experience for residents, families and staff: A case conferencing approach for older people living with advanced dementia or mental illness

Roberts, Georgina

• Northern Hospice Feasibility Study, Final Report, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania

Robinson, Julia

• Objective assessment of the trajectory of the course of illness for end of life non-cancer related diseases - biological, social and environmental determinants

Robson, Suzanne

• Exploration of the requirements and feasibility for a Victorian Palliative Care Research Collaborative

Roe, Penny

• Living and dying at home with dementia: who decides? (22kb pdf)

Rosenberg, John

• A study of the integration of health promotion principles and practice in palliative care organisations

Rotstein, Laila

• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff (23kb pdf)

Rowett, Debra

• A randomised, double-blind placebo controlled study of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain

Russell, Cherry

• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

Russell, Danielle

• Northern Hospice Feasibility Study, Final Report, Department of Health and Human Services Tasmania

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Sajkov, Dimitar

• A prospective, randomised, placebo-controlled, double-blind, cross-over study of the efficacy of sustained-release low dose morphine in the subjective sensation of dyspnoea due to maximally treated primary pulmonary hypertension in opioid naive participants.

Sanderson, Christine

• A double-blind, dose-ranging study to determine the optimal dose of oral morphine or oxycodone needed to treat breakthrough pain for people on regular opioid in the palliative care setting. (14kb pdf)
• Application of a clinical typology for terminal restlessness
• Evaluation of a tool for general practitioners:  Helping Patients And Families Plan For An Expected Home Death:  The GP’s Checklist
• Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
• Identifying the barriers to access to palliative care services by patients from a CALD background: A chart audit of 100 CALD deaths at CHCK
• Upfront Family Meetings for Community Palliative Care Services
• Upfront Family Meetings for in-patient Palliative Care Services

Savage, Sally

• Managing diabetes at the end of life

Schattner Peter

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria (37kb pdf)

Scott, Wendy

• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

Scott, William (Bill)

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Sellick, Ken

• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals

Senior, Kate

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program

Sesta, Paula

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Scott, Wendy

• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

Scott, William (Bill)

• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists

Shahwan-Akl, Linda

• Palliative care education: Does it influence future practice?

Shelby-James, Tania

• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Randomised control trial of oral risperidone, oral haloperidol, and oral placebo with rescue subcutaneous midazolam in the management of delirium in palliative care inpatients

Sibbritt, David

• Can the needs of caregivers of patients with advanced cancer be met using a General Practitioner Caregiver Needs Toolkit?
• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit

Sikka, Elizabeth

• Development of a statewide coordinated specialist and generalised palliative medicine training program

Siminski, Peter

• Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program

Sinclair, Craig

• Assessing the efficacy and cost-effectiveness of targeted nurse-led advance care planning interventions among patients with severe respiratory disease in a metropolitan tertiary hospital and in a rural setting

Skerman, Helen

• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer

Sladek, Ruth

• Determining eHealth literacy levels
• Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies
• Palliative care search strategy validation

Smith, Anthony

• Evaluation of a Palliative Care Telehealth Service with the Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) (167kb pdf)

Smith, J

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

Smith, Joanna

• Prescribing considerations for home oxygen use

Splitt, Mercy

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Sproston, Michael

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Spruyt, Odette

• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Assessing the impact of 'catastrophizing' on the measurement of pain intensity in cancer patients
• Improving palliative care services for adolescents and young adults with cancer
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer
• 1. Prospective audit of clinical efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain; 2. Clinical use, efficacy and adverse effects of ketamine in the management of cancer pain at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre - a retrospective chart audit

Spurling, Geoffrey

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus (43kb pdf)

Stacey, Fiona

• Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW (21kb pdf)

St John, Winsome

• What are the decision-making processes that underpin the self-management of persistent pain?

Sundararajan, Vijaya

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
• Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Swetenham, Kate

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)
• What role do Death Doulas play in end of life care? (196kb pdf)

Syrmis, William

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus (43kb pdf)

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Tamone, Claire

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Tan, Heather

• "What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria (37kb pdf)

Tan, Jung-Ying

• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

Taylor, Janet

• Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

Then, Shih-Ning

• Enhancing legal knowledge of medical practitioners to improve the provision of palliative and end-of-life care (263kb pdf)

Thomas, David

• Improving palliative care services for adolescents and young adults with cancer

Thomas, Samantha

• A qualitative exploration of the needs of patients with severe COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)

Thompson, Kate

• The relevance of music for adolescents and young adults (15-25 years) diagnosed with cancer

Thornton, Rebecca

• Memory making in neonatal end-of-life care

Tieck, Kezia

• The experience of refactory breathlessness (176kb pdf)

Tieman, Jennifer

• A structured approach to evidence based quality improvement for  palliative care
• CareSearch Engagement Activity (264kb pdf)
• Costs of Care search resource
• Determining eHealth literacy levels
• Development of the Stroke Search Filter
• Effect of supportive engagement through MOOC participation on death awareness and death attitudes
• Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
• How do clinicians learn about Knowledge Translation? Examining the online opportunities
• Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies
• Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature
• Palliative care search strategy validation
• Views and experiences of Allied Health professionals about palliative care, and about the CareSearch Allied Health Hub (AHH) and newsletter
• What role do Death Doulas play in end of life care? (196kb pdf)

Tilse, Cheryl

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life

Tofler, Geoff

• Oxygen to relieve dyspnoea in non-hypoxaemic patients with end-stage heart failure (Oxygen-HF)

Trauer, Tom

• Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention
• Improving the psychological wellbeing of family caregivers of home based palliative care patients: a randomised controlled trial
• Toward the identification and minimisation of depression and psychological distress in family caregivers of people receiving palliative care

Trewartha, Jenny

• Liverpool Care Pathway project

Turner, Robin

• A systematic review of effectiveness of decision aids to assist older patients at the end of life
• Non-beneficial treatments (NBTs) in hospital at the end of life
• Pre-existing risk factors for in-hospital death among older patients could be used to initiate end-of-life discussions rather than Rapid Response System calls: A case-control study

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Vagholkar, Sanjyot

• General practitioners & palliative care study

Vella, Kylie

• The Role of Speech-Language Pathologists in Palliative Care: Exploring the Issues and Reaching Consensus (242kb pdf)

Vojkovic, S

• A study to assess the grief experienced by registered nurses and care aides who work in community palliative care and to identify suitable strategies for support

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Walker, Helen

• Implementation of a comprehensive evidence based palliative approach in residential aged care (CEBPRAC)

Waller, Amy

• Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention (14kb pdf)
• Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C) (14kb pdf)
• Palliative Care Needs Assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure (14kb pdf)
• Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer (15kb pdf)

Walscher, Vicki

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Walsh, Kaye

• Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant palliative care nurses in acute hospitals

Wardle, Sabine

• The Experience of Punjabi Indians with Palliative Care at Residential Aged Care Facilities: A Regional Perspective (202kb pdf)

Weil, Jennifer

• The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff (23kb pdf)

Wein, Simon

• An audit of the incidence, mechanism, aetiology and management of nausea and vomiting in patients at a comprehensive cancer centre
• An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
• A randomised, open-label, single centre, cross-over study to assess the safety and efficacy of methoxyflurane (PenthroxTM) for the treatment of incident pain in patients undergoing radiotherapy
• Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists
• Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer

Wheat, Janelle

• Listen Acknowledge Respond

Wheeler, Greg

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

White, Ben

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life
• Enhancing legal knowledge of medical practitioners to improve the provision of palliative and end-of-life care (263kb pdf)
• Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining medical treatment from adults who lack capacity: The role of law in medical practice

White, Kate

• A palliative approach for people with declining health, living in hostel accommodation: the state of play
• Palliative nursing in residential aged care

Whyte, Julianne

• “Finding Hope and Meaning at a time of Uncertainty” (33kb pdf)
• Listen Acknowledge Respond

Wilkinson, Kate

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Williams, Jacqui

• Bayside Palliative Carers Support Group

Williams, Kate

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
• Evaluation of the Care Planning sub-program of the Local Palliative Care Grants Program

Willmott, Lindy

• Designing regulatory systems that are responsive to evolving medical practice at the end of life (174kb pdf)
• Dying in pain: a pilot study
• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life
• Enhancing legal knowledge of medical practitioners to improve the provision of palliative and end-of-life care (263kb pdf)
• Futile treatment at the end of life: legal, policy, sociological and economic perspectives

Willis, David

• The effect of self-selected music on adults' anxiety and subjective experience during their first radiotherapy treatment

Wilson, Jill

• Enhancing community knowledge and engagement with law at the end of life

Wilson, Monica

• Accompanying them home : the ethics of hospice palliative care

Wong, Debbie

• Calvary Hoarding and Squalor Project

Wootten, Julia

• Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus (43kb pdf)

Wootton, Richard

• Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: A randomised controlled pilot study of videotelephony (41kb pdf)

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Yates, Patsy

• A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings (16kb pdf)
• A study of the integration of health promotion principles and practice in palliative care organisations
• A two-stage trial of antiemetic therapy in patients with cancer and nausea not related to anticancer therapy  Study 1: A randomised open label study of guideline–driven targeted antiemetic therapy versus single agent antiemetic therapy
• Enabling consumer participation in end-of-life treatment decisions (Part 1) (198kb pdf)
• Enhancing legal knowledge of medical practitioners to improve the provision of palliative and end-of-life care (263kb pdf)
• Evaluation of the Program of Experience in the Palliative Approach (PEPA)
• Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer
• Implementing principles of end-of-life care in acute care settings
• Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration
• So many questions

Yeatman, Heather

• Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program

Yin, Huahua

• What role do Death Doulas play in end of life care? (196kb pdf)

Young, Ivan

• A multi-centre randomised double-blind controlled trial of oxygen versus air for the relief of breathlessness in terminally-ill patients with intractable dyspnoea and Pa02>55mmHg

Yong, Melvin

• Assessing the Impact of 'catastrophizing' on the measurement of pain intensity in cancer patients

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Zalcberg, John

• Life threatening cancer across the lifespan: Examining the relevance of music to patients and their companions

Zwar, Nick

• General Practitioners & Palliative Care Study
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Last updated 16 March 2020