Purpose Malnutrition severely impacts tolerance to anticancer therapies, but any relationship with overall survival (OS) at the time of solid tumour diagnosis in outpatients in the USA remains unclear ...

Objective Accurate forecasting the life expectancy of patients with cancer is adamantly needed for adequate decision-making in the Palliative Care Services (PCS) context. Nonetheless, physician ...

Correspondence to Dr Christine Miaskowski, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA; chris.miaskowski{at}nursing.ucsf.edu Objectives Improved understanding of the stability ...

Objective Cachexia and nutritional problems play a major role in palliative care. Artificial nutrition such as parenteral nutrition is common but its role and indications in terminal patients remain ...

Background Antimicrobial stewardship is a global health issue. Antibiotic resistance is the subject of a 2024–2029 UK government national action plan (Department of Health and Social Care, UK Health ...