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Palliative care

Perspective

Improving palliative care for people who use alcohol and other drugs

Grace FitzGerald, Jon Cook, Peter Higgs, Charles Henderson, Sione Crawford and Thileepan Naren

Med J Aust 2025; 222 (4): 164-167 Free

Letter to the editor

Inequity of access to voluntary assisted dying for New Zealand citizens residing permanently in Australia

Christopher J Barlow

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (11): 631-631 Free

Perspectives

Dying of heart failure: how do we improve the experience?

Dominica Zentner, Vithoosharan Sivanathan, Jennifer Philip and Natasha Smallwood

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (11): 546-549 Free

Perspectives

Call to end shackling of hospitalised palliative prisoner patients

Lara Pemberton, Stacey Panozzo and Jennifer Philip

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (6): 304-306 Free

Letters

Feasibility of organ donation following voluntary assisted dying in Australia: lessons from international practice

Elena Cavazzoni, Maeghan Toews and Helen I Opdam

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 164-164

Ethics and law

Implications of voluntary assisted dying for advance care planning

Ben P White, Madeleine Archer, Casey M Haining and Lindy Willmott

Med J Aust 2024; 220 (3): 129-133 Free

Ethics and law

Feasibility of organ donation following voluntary assisted dying in Australia: lessons from international practice

Jan Bollen, Courtney Hempton, Neera Bhatia and James Tibballs

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (5): 202-205 Free

Letter

Home‐based palliative care services after COVID‐19

Margaret O'Connor

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (10): 492-492

Reflection

Palliative care through the lens of a medical student

Dominique S Schell

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (3): 114-115

Ethics and law

Advance care planning for pregnant patients

John J Bockxmeer, Casey M Haining and Andrea Atkinson

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 161-164 Free

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

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

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

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

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