All Outputs (5)

Virtual wards for people with frailty: What works, for whom, how and why—a rapid realist review (2024)
Journal Article
Westby, M., Ijaz, S., Savović, J., McLeod, H., Dawson, S., Welsh, T., …Bradley, N. (2024). Virtual wards for people with frailty: What works, for whom, how and why—a rapid realist review. Age and Ageing, 53(3), Article afae039. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afae039

Virtual wards (VWs) deliver multidisciplinary care at home to people with frailty who are at high risk of a crisis or in crisis, aiming to mitigate the risk of acute hospital admission. Different VW models exist, and evidence of effectiveness is inco... Read More about Virtual wards for people with frailty: What works, for whom, how and why—a rapid realist review.

Combining realist evaluation and transformative evaluation to advance research in palliative care: The case of end of life companionship (2023)
Journal Article
Downey, J., Fornasiero, M., Cooper, S., Bassett, L., Doherty, M., Dubeibe Fong, A., …Cornwall, J. (2023). Combining realist evaluation and transformative evaluation to advance research in palliative care: The case of end of life companionship. Palliative Medicine, 37(3), 413-420. https://doi.org/10.1177/02692163231152524

Background: Palliative care requires innovative methods to understand what works, for whom, in what circumstances and why. Realist evaluation has become one prominent approach due to its preoccupation with building, and testing, causal theories to ex... Read More about Combining realist evaluation and transformative evaluation to advance research in palliative care: The case of end of life companionship.

Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups (2022)
Journal Article
Bradley, N., Dowrick, C., & Lloyd-Williams, M. (2022). Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), Article 13258. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013258

Palliative care patients can be at risk of social isolation or loneliness. Interventions that can provide effective social support, and particularly emotional support, could facilitate healthy coping that bolsters quality of life and reduces depressi... Read More about Feasibility of patient reported outcome measures in psychosocial palliative care: Observational cohort study of hospice day care and social support groups.

A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland: How did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic? (2022)
Journal Article
Bradley, N. M., Dowrick, C. F., & Lloyd-Williams, M. (2022). A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland: How did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?. BMC Palliative Care, 21(1), Article 170. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-022-01061-9

Introduction: Social support is described by patients and other stakeholders to be a valuable component of palliative day care. Less is known about the range of hospice services that have been used in practice that facilitate social support. An onlin... Read More about A survey of hospice day services in the United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland: How did hospices offer social support to palliative care patients, pre-pandemic?.

Effectiveness of palliative care interventions offering social support to people with life-limiting illness—A systematic review (2018)
Journal Article
Bradley, N., Lloyd-Williams, M., & Dowrick, C. (2018). Effectiveness of palliative care interventions offering social support to people with life-limiting illness—A systematic review. European Journal of Cancer Care, 27(3), Article e12837. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecc.12837

Individuals managing the challenges of life-limiting illness require adequate social support to maintain quality of life. Qualitative research reports that patients value highly the social support obtained in palliative care interventions such as day... Read More about Effectiveness of palliative care interventions offering social support to people with life-limiting illness—A systematic review.