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Palliative care

Guideline summary

Care of older people and people requiring palliative care with COVID‐19: guidance from the Australian National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Saskia Cheyne, Richard I Lindley, Natasha Smallwood, Britta Tendal, Michael Chapman, David Fraile Navarro, Phillip D Good, Peter Jenkin, Steve McDonald, Deidre Morgan, Melissa Murano, Tanya Millard, Vasi Naganathan, Velandai Srikanth, Penelope Tuffin, Joshua Vogel, Heath White, Samantha P Chakraborty, Elizabeth Whiting, Leeroy William, Patsy M Yates, Mandy Callary, Julian Elliott and Meera R Agar, for the National COVID‐19 Clinical Evidence Taskforce

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 203-208 Free

Reflection

Being towards death

Isobel Yeap

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 456-457

Perspectives

Reframing palliative care to improve the quality of life of people diagnosed with a serious illness

Peter Hudson, Anna Collins, Mark Boughey and Jennifer Philip

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (10): 443-446 Free

Research

Participating doctors’ perspectives on the regulation of voluntary assisted dying in Victoria: a qualitative study

Lindy Willmott, Ben P White, Marcus Sellars and Patsy M Yates

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (3): 125-129 Free

Letters

Palliative radiotherapy for bone metastases at the end of life in Victoria

Wee Loon Ong, Farshad Foroudi, Roger L Milne and Jeremy L Millar

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (5): 236-237.e1

Perspectives

Implementing voluntary assisted dying in a major public health service

Sarah Booth, Paul Eleftheriou and Claire Moody

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 343-346.e1

Letters

COVID‐19 and suicide in older adults

Anne P F Wand and Carmelle Peisah

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 335-335.e1 Free

Research

Development and validation of a frailty index based on Australian Aged Care Assessment Program data

Jyoti Khadka, Renuka Visvanathan, Olga Theou, Max Moldovan, Azmeraw T Amare, Catherine Lang, Julie Ratcliffe, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 321-326 Free

Perspectives

Navigating the complexities of voluntary assisted dying in palliative care

Eswaran Waran and Leeroy William

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (5): 204-206.e1

Media review

The ethics of palliation

Gin S Malhi

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 167-167

Research

The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN‐ACC): a new casemix classification for residential aged care

Kathy Eagar, Rob Gordon, Milena F Snoek, Carol Loggie, Anita Westera, Peter David Samsa and Conrad Kobel

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 359-363 Free

Perspectives

Opening the lines of communication: towards shared decision making and improved end‐of‐life care in the Top End

Emma Spencer and Eswaran Waran

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 10-11.e1 Free

Ethics and law

Challenges in advance care planning: the interface between explicit instructional directives and palliative care

Peter Eastman, Danielle Ko and Brian H Le

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (2): 67-68.e1

Letters

A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Julia M Anaf

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (3): 140-140.e1

Letters

A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Roger W Hunt

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (3): 140-140.e1

Letters

A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Geoffrey K Mitchell, Lindy Willmott, Ben P White, Donella Piper, David C Currow and Patsy M Yates

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (3): 140-140.e1

Perspectives

Integrating palliative care and symptom relief into responses to humanitarian crises

Eric L Krakauer, Bethany‐Rose Daubman and Tammam Aloudat

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (5): 201-203.e1

Perspectives

A perfect storm: fear of litigation for end of life care

Geoffrey K Mitchell, Lindy Willmott, Ben P White, Donella Piper, David C Currow and Patsy M Yates

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 441-441.e1

Letters

Medical assistance in dying: a disruption of therapeutic relationships

Peter G Beahan

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 189

Letters

Medical assistance in dying: a disruption of therapeutic relationships

Douglas T Bridge, Sinead M Donnelly and Frank P Brennan

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (4): 189

Perspectives

Medical assistance in dying: a disruption of therapeutic relationships

Leeroy William

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (7): 286-287

Short reports

The gap reversed: a review of site of death in the Top End

Eswaran Waran, Mohammad Y Zubair and Niamh O'Connor

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (1): 39 Free

Perspectives

Psilocybin-assisted therapy for anxiety and depression: implications for euthanasia

Nigel Strauss

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (11): 468-469

Perspectives

Failing to plan is planning to fail: advance care directives and the Aboriginal people of the Top End

Eswaran Waran, Sharon Wallace and Jonathan Dodson-Jauncey

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (9): 377

Reflections / Poem

Cloudless

Michelle P Poon

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (1): 18