List of current research studies

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.

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

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

Application of a clinical typology for terminal restlessness

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.

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

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

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 patient undergoing surgery in a cancer hospital: An audit using the VQC Pain Assessment Tool-kit

Bayside Palliative Carers Support Group

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

Decision making frameworks in advanced dementia: links to improved care

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

Epidemiological study of patterns of hospitalisation in patients who die with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

Evaluation of a palliative care needs assessment intervention

Evaluation of the palliative care needs assessment intervention

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

“Finding Hope and Meaning at a time of Uncertainty”

General Practitioners & Palliative Care Study

Helping family caregivers of palliative care patients manage their role: Evaluation of a hospital based group education intervention

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

Improving end-of-life care at Canossa

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

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

Information and communications technologies (ICT), eHealth literacy, individual differences in thinking dispositions and retention and academic performance in postgraduate palliative studies

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?

Integrated Mental Health and Palliative Care Task (IMhPaCT)

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

Living and dying at home with dementia: who decides?

Needs based access to specialist palliative care services: Development and preliminary evaluation of a Consumer Toolkit

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

Opioid Conversion Ratios: Is there an Australian consensus

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 education: Does it influence future practice?

Palliative Care Outcomes Collaboration

Palliative care needs assessment program: Dissemination of the Palliative Care Needs Assessment Guidelines and Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease - Cancer (NAT:PD-C)

Palliative care needs assessment program: Generalising cancer needs based resources to heart failure

Palliative nursing in residential aged care

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

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

REACH out in Dementia

The development and implementation of an evidence-based palliative care teaching program for hospital junior medical staff

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

The evaluation of models of community after hours palliative care

The long goodbye

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

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

The use of levomepromazine in palliation (TULIP)

Use of Methylnaltrexone for opioid induced constipation in usual clinical setting

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

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

This page was created on 07 May 2007
Last updated 01 September 2011