Alison Pauline Bowers

Documented inpatient specialist palliative care and hospital admission patterns in the final year of life among people who died from stroke: a population-based data linkage study

Natalie Govind, Gursharan K Singh, Caleb Ferguson, Jane L Phillips et autres

Abstract Background Adults who died from stroke frequently experience recurrent hospitalisation in their final year of life, yet population-level evidence characterising documented inpatient specialist palliative care and its variation across analytically derived stroke-related diagnostic groups remains limited. This study describes patterns of …

Serious health-related suffering in children and paediatric palliative care

Alison Pauline Bowers, Gursharan K. Singh

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Making Symptoms Visible: The Impact of Real-Time PROM Integration in Pediatric Oncology

Natalie Bradford, Ethan Whalan, Paula Condon, Remziye Semerci et autres

Background/Objectives: Children undergoing cancer treatment experience multiple distressing symptoms that often go undetected in routine care. This study evaluated the potential impact of integrating the Symptom Screening in Pediatrics Tool (SSPedi) into clinical workflows, focusing on symptom detection and implications for service …

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Co-Design and Evaluation Protocol for the RECOVER Model of Care After Childhood Cancer Treatment

Natalie Bradford, Christine Cashion, Erin Sharwood, Shelley Rumble et autres

Background: Advances in diagnosis and treatment have significantly increased survival rates for childhood cancer, leading to a growing population of long-term survivors. However, these survivors face substantial physical and psychological sequelae that affect both the child and their family. We developed the …

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Medicinal Cannabinoids in Children: A Scoping Review

Stephanie Samuelraj, Paul F. Lee‐Archer, Alison Pauline Bowers, Anthony Herbert

Background: Medicinal cannabinoids have generated significant interest from clinicians and families as a potential therapy for a range of paediatric conditions in recent years. There are increasing numbers of clinical studies in this area and also an increased awareness of medicinal cannabinoids …

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Exploring the Caregiver Experiences of Symptom Management in Children With Cancer: A Qualitative Systematic Review

Ethan Whalan, Xiomara Skrabal Ross, Alison Pauline Bowers, Natalie Bradford

Although caregivers of children with cancer play an instrumental role in managing their child's symptoms, the impact of their own experiences or perspectives is under-explored. Understanding these factors is essential as they influence caregiving behaviors and overall well-being. This qualitative systematic review …

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Education Model for Paediatric Palliative Care

Angela Delaney, Julie Dufield, Rebecca Iten, Melissa Heywood et autres

Introduction: Meeting the palliative care needs of children and their families is complex and challenging. For countries such as Australia, whose relatively small paediatric palliative care population is dispersed across a very large geographical area, one challenge is maintaining a skilled workforce …

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Does medicinal cannabis affect depression, anxiety, and stress in people with cancer? A systematic review and meta-analysis of intervention studies

Megan Crichton, Thusharika Dilrukshi Dissanayaka, Wolfgang Marx, Elizabeth Gamage et autres

INTRODUCTION: -tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) dose on these outcomes. METHODS: Five databases were systematically searched, and complemented with a snowball search from inception to May 2023, for any type of interventional study that included humans of any age with any cancer type. Primary outcomes …

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Supportive Care in Pediatric Oncology: Opportunities and Future Directions

Jason Lawrence Freedman, Dori Beeler, Alison Pauline Bowers, Natalie Bradford et autres

The optimization of outcomes for pediatric cancer patients relies on the successful advancement of supportive care to ease the treatment burden and mitigate the long-term impacts of cancer therapy. Advancing pediatric supportive care requires research prioritization as well as the development and …

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Cannabinoids for symptom management in children with cancer: A systematic review and meta‐analysis

Manik Chhabra, Mohamed Ben‐Eltriki, Arun Paul, Mê‐Linh Lê et autres

BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread use of medical cannabis, little is known regarding the safety, efficacy, and dosing of cannabis products in children with cancer. The objective of this study was to systematically appraise the existing published literature for the use of cannabis …

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A guide to navigating administrative data linkage for research

Gursharan K. Singh, Alison Pauline Bowers

Data linkage brings together information from various sources, including routinely collected administrative data or data from different research studies, to create a new, richer dataset. It provides insights into complex relationships between health and outcomes and evidence pathways to good health. However, …

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Hospital-service use in the last year of life by patients aged ⩾60 years who died of heart failure or cardiomyopathy: A retrospective linked data study

Gursharan K. Singh, Alison Pauline Bowers, Caleb Ferguson, Serra E. Ivynian et autres

Background: Understanding patterns of health care use in the last year of life is critical in health services planning. Aim: To describe hospital-based service and palliative care use in hospital in the year preceding death for patients who died of heart failure …

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