List of completed research studies

Adelaide Hills Palliative Care Project (National Rural Palliative Care Program)   For more information please visit Australian General Practice Network website

An International Multi-centre Validation Study of a Pain Classification System for Advanced Cancer Pain

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

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

Cancer Pain Education for Patients

Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program

Dying in the Place of Choice: End of Life Care in Private Hospitals

Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia website information

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

Integration, coordination and multidisciplinary care - Findings from the literature   - Australian National University publication

Linking the parts: - Articulating the role of consultant Palliative Care Nurses in Acute Hospitals

Measuring hope and hopelessness in cancer

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

Palliative Care Dementia Interface: Enhancing Community Capacity Hancock, K., Chang, E., Johnson, A., Harrison, K., Daly, J., Easterbrook, S., Noel, M., Luhr-Taylor, M., & Davidson, P. (2006). Palliative care for people with advanced dementia: the need for a collaborative, evidence-based approach. Alzheimer’s Care Quarterly, 7(1), 49-57. Chang, E., Hancock, K., Harrison, K., Daly, J., Johnson, A., Easterbrook, S., Noel, M., Luhr-Taylor, M., & Davidson, P. (2005). On behalf of the Palliative Care Dementia Interface investigators. Palliative care for end-stage dementia: A discussion of implications for education of health care professionals. Nurse Education Today, 25(4), 326-332

Palliative care search strategy validation - JMLA publication

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

The development of a model of care for Haematology and Palliative Care McGrath P. & Holewa H. (2007) Haematology and Palliative Care: Towards an Integrated Practice, International Program of Psycho-Social Health Research (IPP-SHR), Central Queensland University (Available at: www.ipp-shr.cqu.edu.au). McGrath P. & Holewa H, (2007) A model for end-of-life care in haematology: an Australian nursing perspective, Oncology Nursing Forum, 34,1:79-85. McGrath P., Pun P., James S. Holewa H., (2007) Psychological and psychiatric sequelae of steroid use in Hematology treatments: A review of the literature, Austral-Asian Journal of Cancer, 6,2.

 

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