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Completed Studies
 

List of completed research studies

A comprehensive discharge planning strategy to enhance hospital-to-home transition for patients with life limiting illness: optimizing communication across primary-secondary settings
Adelaide Hills Palliative Care Project (National Rural Palliative Care Program)
  For more information please visit Australian General Practice Network website

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
An international multi-centre validation study of a pain classification system for advanced cancer pain
Assessing the impact of 'catastrophizing' on the measurement of pain intensity in cancer patients
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
A very public death - Exploring the needs of a person dying of mesothelioma or asbestos related lung disease
Cancer pain education for patients
Caring Communities: evaluation of a national palliative care program
Determining eHealth literacy levels
Dying in the place of choice: End of life care in private hospitals
Evaluating novel methods for delivering non-pharmacological interventions for dyspnoea in patients with lung cancer
Evaluation of a volunteer-based client biography service

Evaluation of an information booklet for family carers of people with dementia website information
Evaluation of GP webpages of the CareSearch website
Evaluation of the Rural Palliative Care Program
Improving medication management of palliative care patients: Enhancing the role of community pharmacists
Improving paediatric palliative care for rural and remote families: A randomised controlled pilot study of videotelephony
Improving palliative care services for adolescents and young adults with cancer

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
Palliative care search strategy validation - JMLA publication
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
Relevance of Peter Mac's staff Christmas choir to patients, visitors, and staff

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

Retrospective and prospective audit of gabapentin and pre-gablin prescribing for neuropathic pain in a major cancer hospital
Survey of hospice and palliative care bereavement services in Australia

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

Trial of supportive care strategies for cancer patients in NSW
Validity, reliability and clinical feasibility of a Needs Assessment Tool for people with progressive cancer
What are the decision-making processes that underpin the self-management of persistent pain?
"What happens after dark?" Improving "after hours" palliative care planning in urban and rural Victoria.

 

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